IMI Podcasts
IMI's podcasts include the Mobility Standard, where we interview investment migration industry figures, as well as news summaries and articles from imidaily.com.
The 8 Places With No Property Tax
IMI's review of more than 100 countries and territories found only eight places that charge no annual property tax on a home. They range from Monaco and Malta to the Cayman Islands and the Gulf. In New Jersey, the average owner pays 1.88% of a home's value every year. IMI covers what the eight collect instead and why a property tax rate tells you little. It also covers how a second home abroad can cost more than the one you live in. It ends with the heaviest bills in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, including Florida's ballot measure...
Is Europe’s Passport-Free Zone Breaking?
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has said his country may have to "defend our border at some point," as IMI reports. Less than a week earlier he spoke of "an army on our border with Germany," a fellow member of Europe's passport-free Schengen Area. IMI covers the chain from Spain's 1,174,978 regularization applications and the Ceuta crossings to the EU summit. It also covers what that could mean for an EU passport.
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Where Hiding a 2nd Passport Gets Punished
Kuwait has stripped citizenship from more than 71,000 people since August 2024, by one independent count. Japan bans dual citizenship too and has never acted against an estimated 700,000 dual citizens. IMI covers which countries enforce their dual citizenship bans, from India's self-enforcing passport rule to the constitutions that block their own laws.
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Norway's Wealth Exodus Is Worse Than You Think
Thirty billionaires left Norway in a single year. The government's answer was to build a fiscal Berlin Wall. In 2022, Norway raised its wealth tax to one of the highest levels in the West. More billionaires and millionaires left within a year, more than in the previous 13 years combined. Yet wealth-tax revenue nearly doubled between 2021 and 2025. This episode follows the money, the people, and the wall Norway built to keep them in: a tax on paper wealth, founders selling their own companies to pay it, a 12-year exit tax, and the complaint in Brussels that could bring it all down.<...
4 Places to Bank Where the Gov’t Won’t Freeze Assets
In 2022, Canadian banks froze 206 bank accounts on the grounds they participated in an illegal protest, and no judge signed off on the procedure. Asset freezes like this are spreading across Western banking, yet only a handful of jurisdictions add a judicial process for proper due process. One of them comes with a fresh warning, and the biggest exposure of all reaches beyond your bank entirely.
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17 Countries with Exit Taxes in 2026 (Up to 42%)
17 countries now tax your unrealized gains up to 42% the moment your tax residency ends, and Belgium joined the list in 2026. This IMI guide covers what each country charges, the thresholds and deferral rules, the golden visa programs that put you inside an exit tax, and the sequencing moves that shrink the bill before you go.
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4 Ways a Second Passport Can Work Against You
A second passport usually adds travel freedom. But at some borders it does the opposite. Which rule you meet depends on which nationality you hold and which document you carry. IMI covers the restrictions that a passport swap cannot fix.
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Spain Killed Its Golden Visa: What Investors Do Now
Spain issued 14,576 golden visas and received millions in foreign direct investment. Then, they shut the program down for good in 2025. Krista Victorio of Orience explains the two residency paths that survived and where capital previously destined for Spain is now going.
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The Only 10 Ways to Get a New Citizenship in 2026
Every second citizenship on Earth arrives through one of 10 legal paths, and 4 of them are narrowing. In this video, IMI covers all 10, which six were decided at your birth, and why the only path that costs money is the only one expanding.
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22 Nations Where Prolonged Absence Ends Citizenship
Living abroad long enough can end your citizenship in 22 countries, and 9 of them cancel it automatically without notice. IMI covers how each rule works, the deadlines to put in your calendar, and the impact on several popular CBI programs.
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20 Nationality-Based Fast-Tracks to 2nd Citizenship
The right first passport can cut naturalization timelines from ten years to two, or even one, in 20 nations across Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. IMI maps every preferred-nationality fast track in force in 2026, plus the fine print that shuts out some citizenship by investment passports.
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11 Things No One Tells You About Having 2+ Passports
Each new citizenship in your portfolio comes with legal fine print that activates on its own: Expiry at 22, automatic cancellation, lifetime tax, or revocation years after approval. IMI covers the 11 rules of citizenship most people discover after the deadline to act has already passed.
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Gulf Funding Down 22%—How the Rich Are Repositioning
Gulf venture funding fell 22% in the first half of 2026, yet the region's founders and business owners refuse to leave. Why? In this video, you'll learn about the billions in state capital anchoring them in place and the second-passport surge, up to 4x in one country, that reveals how the Gulf's wealthy are repositioning.
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Your Kids Lose These Passports at 22 (10 Countries)
The citizenships to which your child was born with rights has constraints. The 10 countries mentioned in this video require something of the parents and/or children in order to maintain their rights and continue holding the passport or get one in the first place.
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6 Ways a Government Can Stop You from Leaving
These six legal tools allow the state to stop you, your money, or both from crossing its borders. IMI covers all six, plus the one variable they all depend on and the one thing a second passport cannot fix.
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Inside Russian Plot to Cancel 10,593 Citizens Abroad
Russia's parliament has approved 14 restrictions on convicted citizens abroad, covering frozen funds, annulled e-signatures, and passports that cannot be renewed. IMI covers what this means for Russians overseas and why this design could travel well beyond one country.
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7 Golden Visa Property Markets, Ranked Worst to Best
IMI's Global Property Scoreboard scores 146 cities on their investment merits alone, and 7 golden visa favorites land in an order that inverts the marketing. Why? Greece Golden Visa-eligible Athens and Lisbon (which no longer has a Portugal Golden Visa-eligible real estate investment option) post the worst property fundamentals of the group.
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2 New African Golden Visas: Bold Bets or Blunders?
Ethiopia will demand $10 million for its new 10-year golden visa while Kenya revives a residency by investment plan with no price tag at all. IMI covers both programs, how they stack up against similar programs worldwide, and the catch that could sink both.
Read the full analysis of Kenya's forthcoming program here and Ethiopia's golden visa here.
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Passport Rankings Lie: This Beats Visa-Free Travel
Most passport rankings measure visa-free travel, but they say nothing about a far more valuable metric: Where your passport gives you the legal right to settle, work, and stay. In this video, we break down the difference between visa-free access and residency rights and the settlement blocs that let one passport unlock as many as 30 countries.
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7 Ways Your Only Passport Can Fail You in 2026
Your passport can be revoked, frozen at the border, or downgraded overnight, and holding only one stacks risk in a single place. Learn the seven ways a single citizenship can fail you in 2026.
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Detained or Trapped Abroad? These 27 Passports Help
Passport rankings measure visa-free travel, not who comes for you when you're detained, hospitalized, or trapped in a collapsing country. Learn which citizenships pull the most weight in a crisis, why one draws on 27 consular missions at once, and an oft-forgotten condition that leaves even the strongest passport powerless in times of need.
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0% Tax in 6 Countries: How to Get Gulf Golden Visas
Every Gulf state operates a golden visa program, and the entry price ranges from $200,000 in one country to $16.3 million in another. Learn about all six GCC investor residency programs on cost, permanence, and presence requirements.
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6 Citizenship Levers for Your Kids Before They’re 18
Building a global citizen family? The levers that decide your child's citizenship mostly close forever at 18. In this video, you'll learn all six ways your baby can become a passport collector, plus the obligations most marketing never mentions.
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How to Renounce Your Citizenship (5 Breakup Paths)
Few governments let you simply hand back your passport if you want to renounce your citizenship. In fact, one country will tax every asset you own on the way out. In this video, you'll learn the five ways nations handle renunciation.
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5 Ways to Get an EU Passport Without Paying a Cent
Golden visas with routes to eventual citizenship can cost upwards of six figures, but these five routes to EU citizenship require no entry fee at all. And you might already qualify for one without knowing it. In this video, IMI covers all five.
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6 Hidden Tax Problems of Owning a Home Abroad
The price of a home abroad is the last simple number you will ever see, because owning one can tax you every year you hold it, again when you sell, and once more after you die. In this in-depth video, IMI covers the six ownership-based tax traps most buyers miss.
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How to Get Residency in 9 Post-Soviet States
Nine post-Soviet states now sell residency to foreign investors, and Belarus could soon become the first in the former USSR to sell citizenship outright. IMI covers all nine, from the EU passport routes in the Baltics to an underperforming program in Moscow to newer golden visa options in Central Asia.
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Europe Just Set a Deadline to End Caribbean CBI
The European Commission has told all five Caribbean governments operating citizenship by investment programs that they must phase out their programs by June 2028 or lose visa-free access to the Schengen Area. IMI covers the demand, why one prime minister is refusing to comply, and the interim deadline in September.
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8 CRS Holdouts and How to Get Residency There
More than 120 countries automatically share your bank data through the Common Reporting Standard, but eight jurisdictions refuse to join. And each one offers a compelling way to get residency or citizenship.
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7 Latin American Residency Programs Compared (2026)
IMI Pro David Lincoln argues the region that investors once dismissed now offers the rarest asset in investment migration: Livability. In this video, we walk through his analysis of the top 7 investor visas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
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The Citizenship Route Everyone Ignores—How to Get It
Citizenship by merit allows investors to earn an alternative citizenship by bringing a business, jobs, or investment to a country, with full rights from day one and no language test or long wait. In this video filmed at IMI Connect Barcelona, IMI Pro Rafael Cintron of Wealthy Expat covers how citizenship by exception works and where to pursue it.
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How to Travel with 2+ Passports Without Major Issues
Hold two or more passports and one careless border crossing can flag you as an overstayer, cost you consular protection, or earn you an entry ban. IMI covers the document discipline that keeps your records clean, the countries that refuse to see your second passport, and which one to show at every border.
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How 100+ Countries Track Your Money (& How to Avoid)
More than 100 tax authorities worldwide now receive your bank balance, address, and financial transactions automatically. Moving your money offshore usually doesn't help. In this video, IMI covers what the Common Reporting Standard is, the one G7 country that never signed, and the legal move that the rich are using to avoid financial over-reporting.
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He Sold His UAE Property at the Top. Where Next?
Savory & Partners founder and IMI Pro Jeremy Savory has invested across 11 countries more than 30 times in the last 23 years, and his strongest returns came from places most investors would never touch. In this video filmed at IMI Connect Barcelona, he covers why he offloaded his holdings in two jurisdictions, how he determines his next ones, and where he is putting his money next.
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Could These 3 Safe Tax Havens Replace Dubai in 2027?
Dubai's reputation as a safe haven has fractured after the 2026 Iran war, and some of the world's wealthiest are moving themselves and their assets out of the Emirate. In this video, IMI covers which three safe tax havens could replace Dubai in 2027, what each costs, and the dark-horse country that might beat all three.
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Ghana Wants to Sell Citizenship: What We Know Now
Ghana just wrote citizenship by investment into national law, but the entire plan fits in a single clause. IMI covers what the bill says, what happens now, and why Ghana's passport plans could still be a long way from anything you can buy.
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A Hidden €300K Path to French Citizenship in 5 Years
This video is sponsored content, produced in partnership with The Open World Residencies and Citizenship: France's €300,000 residency-by-investment route offers a five-year path to citizenship with no minimum stay or language requirement (until naturalization), yet most investors never hear it exists. Charlie Maggi covers the routes, costs, and benefits shaping how investors secure a second residency in Europe.
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6 LatAm Investor Programs Ranked by a 10-Year Local
What you've heard about Latin America may be outdated. In this video, IMI Pro David Lincoln covers the six Latin American residency and citizenship programs increasingly attracting Plan B investors from around the globe, from Paraguay's $150,000 investor pass to the Dominican Republic's six-month route to citizenship.
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Top 5 Golden Visas Across 5 Continents, No Presence
Want flexible international residency with no need to relocate? IMI Pro Rafael Cintron covers his top 5 golden visa residency programs that hand wealthy investors a second base with no physical presence required, one on every continent. See how Panama, Mauritius, the UAE, Thailand, and Greece grant residency through real estate, renewable energy, or a single donation.
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The Doomsday Plan B the Ultra-Rich Won't Share
What lessons can you learn from the ultra-rich building global Plan Bs and an advisor who helps them? These portfolios hold up when borders close, banks freeze, and war breaks out. IMI Pro Jeremy Savory has guided 2,500 families over 15 years and explains exactly how this multi-citizenship, residency, and tax-residency strategy lets a family relocate at a moment's notice.
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