A recent report published by PropertyWire on June 25 highlights a surge in Americans applying for Greek residency, with a 49% increase in the first half of 2025 alone.
British citizenship for Americans drew 2,654 applications in the first quarter of 2026, the highest quarterly count in 22 years of Home Office records.
Overseas voters have become a target in the run-up to the 2026 midterms, but the legal fight and the real barrier point in different directions. The Republican National Committee has filed or backed lawsuits in Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Virginia and, in late June, Colorado, challenging state laws that let certain Americans abroad vote. […]
Residence-based taxation is the reform millions of Americans abroad have waited on for a decade, and 2026 was supposed to be the year it finally moved. It hasn’t, yet. The Residence-Based Taxation for Americans Abroad Act, first introduced by Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., in December 2024 as H.R. 10468, expired when the 118th Congress ended. […]
US citizens in Iceland reached 1,049 in 2025, up 80% from 583 in 2016, while American long-term permits tripled to 247. What the small-base numbers show.
Social Security abroad has become an $8.39 billion annual line in the federal record of Americans living beyond the United States. The Social Security Administration counted 711,778 Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance beneficiaries in foreign countries in December 2024, including 463,480 retired workers. OASDI is the formal program behind Social Security retirement, survivor and disability […]
Argentina naturalization rules changed in 2025, and the toughest new condition only shows itself when an applicant leaves the country. One trip abroad can reset the clock to zero. President Javier Milei’s government rewrote the path to an Argentine passport by decree. Most of the changes make it harder. What the residency clock now requires […]
Dominica citizenship by investment starts at a $200,000 donation, but the program offers no US E-2 access and no public count of American buyers.
Sweden’s good behavior law, passed by parliament June 15, lets the Swedish Migration Agency revoke residence permits for conduct that isn’t criminal, and it reaches permits already granted. That’s a first since 2005. The change takes effect July 13, and it lands on Americans the same way it lands on every other non-EU migrant: through […]
Kuwait’s Cabinet Resolution No. 651 of 2026 introduced a 15-year investor residency permit, a new pathway for Americans with $16.3 million to invest who are considering relocation to the Gulf. The figure isn’t a passive deposit. It’s the minimum investment volume a licensed entity must hold, which means the permit attaches to an operating business, […]
Finland’s Parliament passed a new Finland citizenship test into law June 12, requiring naturalization applicants to pass an exam on Finnish society, history and culture starting Jan. 1, 2027. The vote was 153 to 21. Support reached past the governing coalition to the Social Democratic Party and the Centre Party. The measure makes a passing […]
Japan’s permanent residency fee could climb from ¥10,000 ($62) to around ¥200,000 ($1,240), a roughly twentyfold increase, under an immigration law the country’s parliament passed May 29. The figure isn’t fixed. Lawmakers raised the legal ceiling; the actual charge comes later. What the law changed, and what it didn’t The revised Immigration Control and Refugee […]