Americans in Guatemala number around 10,000 to 13,000 across UN, census and State Department counts. Here is why the figures diverge and what data is missing.
Japan’s government expert panel has postponed recommendations on foreign property purchase restrictions until fall 2026, delaying what could have been a midsummer decision on buying property in Japan as a foreigner. For the roughly 70,000 registered American residents in Japan, that’s a reprieve, not a resolution. Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party announced plans in December […]
Eurostat is the only receiving-country statistical infrastructure that publishes harmonised, country-disaggregated migration data on U.S. nationals. Taken on its own terms, the decade ending in 2025 reveals four overlapping American stories in Europe — and they pull in different directions.
Five CARICOM states operate citizenship-by-investment programmes whose grants carry free movement across the region. U.S. nationals are plausibly the largest single applicant group — but they appear in neither country's books: not as residents abroad, and not as emigrants at home.
Across the Gulf, residence-permit administrations enumerate foreign nationals by nationality for visa-management and security purposes — and publish almost none of it. The U.S. presence in the GCC, plausibly on the order of 50,000 to 80,000 people, is the clearest case of administrative capacity producing non-publication.
Ghana citizenship by investment now has a statutory mandate but no program behind it, an unusual sequence written into a bill Ghana’s Parliament passed April 2. For the thousands of Americans who have built lives in Accra under heritage-based pathways, the question is what a paid route changes. Ghana has courted American emigrants for seven […]
Thousands of court cases are backing up Portugal’s immigration authority AIMA, and the resulting Portugal residence permit delays are landing on Americans mid-application. The agency was still working through thousands of outstanding court decisions in May 2026, slowing permit issuance for new residents. The squeeze comes at an awkward moment. Portugal’s American population has never […]
The count of US citizens in Czechia hit 10,701 on Jan. 1, 2025, a 49% rise in five years, with Prague and a one-year trade-license route doing most of the pulling.
Americans moving to Brazil now sit among the country’s largest foreign residence cohorts, a slow climb back from the pandemic floor that the permit data only partly explains.
Argentina’s 2022 census counted about 14,000 US-born residents, but roughly twice as many people hold US citizenship there. The gap explains who the headline number misses.
US-born arrivals to Australia held above 10,000 a year through the 2010s, then pandemic border closures cut them to 4,650. The 2024-25 count of 7,580 marks a partial, stalled recovery.
A proposed Bahamas permanent residency change would let the immigration minister hand a residence certificate to people he turns down for citizenship, in exchange for a $500 fee. That’s cheaper than an annual Bahamian work permit. It’s also the part drawing the most fire. The $500 mechanism tucked into a budget debate The Bahamas Nationality […]