Residency, citizenship and tax status in Europe — which routes work, what the programmes changed, and where people lose money. One question per write-up.
20 write-ups · Europe news · all countries and programmes
Austrian residency quotas by category and federal state open each January and fill within days. Language requirements start at filing, and citizenship demands renouncing your prior nationality.
Read on →Several European states offer routes for descendants of emigrants and expelled populations. They are the strongest routes available, and the industry around them is the least regulated.
Read on →The purchase is made to satisfy a rule rather than to be a good purchase, and every error follows from that inversion.
Read on →European institutions have spent a decade pressing member states on investment migration. The pressure has produced closures, a court ruling, and reviews of grants already made.
Read on →The fast-track citizenship route was abolished in 2022. The country that remains is an EU and Schengen member with the lowest flat tax in the Union.
Read on →Two countries at the cheap end of European property with straightforward residence rules and, in one case, an unusually generous visa-free position for some nationalities.
Read on →The claim recurs across the region and rests on a real but narrow discretionary provision. What that provision actually is explains why the offer never converts.
Read on →It is the objective behind most European residence planning and is rarely described precisely. The rights are substantial, specific, and narrower in one respect than people assume.
Read on →Estonia’s digital programme is the most misunderstood document in this field. It is a business tool with a card, and it confers no right to live anywhere.
Read on →Hungary reopened an investment residence route after closing an earlier one under criticism. The history of that earlier programme is the most useful thing to know about the new one.
Read on →Two Central European countries with real economies, ordinary migration systems and no investment routes. What they do have is one of the more accessible descent routes in Europe.
Read on →The immigrant investor programme was shut in 2023. What Ireland still offers is a common law jurisdiction, an English-speaking EU seat, and one of the strongest ancestry routes in Europe.
Read on →Two countries that never sold residence and never intended to. What they offer instead is predictability — and a set of conditions that reward actually moving.
Read on →Neither country sells residence. They differ sharply on one question that decides families: whether you may keep the passport you already hold.
Read on →France offers several ordinary routes and no investment one. What decides whether it works for a family is not the permit but what French tax residence brings with it.
Read on →Italy has no golden visa in the usual sense and offers two things that matter more: a residence permit for people living on passive income, and a flat tax on foreign income.
Read on →A European court found that granting nationality in exchange for payment was incompatible with EU law. The decision matters well beyond Malta, because of what it says about the whole category.
Read on →For a decade the country was the default answer to “where do I buy for a European residence permit”. Property was removed from the programme, and what remains is a different proposition.
Read on →These countries stay in ads year after year without ever producing results. Here's why the offers keep reappearing, how to check a route's real status, and where to find people who already paid and lost.
Read on →A scheme promising Romanian citizenship in a month ran on forged certificates issued through a compromised registry office. Roughly nineteen thousand people ended up wanted, many discovering it at a border crossing.
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These write-ups are published for information only. They are not legal or tax advice and do not replace a qualified adviser in the relevant jurisdiction. Programme terms and requirements change — check them against the rules in force on the day you apply.
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