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Turkey has taken back the citizenship of 6,134 people who got it by investing, and 743 of them were never accused of fraud. Every citizenship by investment program reserves the right to revoke, but the grounds, the procedure and the record differ widely. IMI ranks 12 programs in four tiers. Tier one is Turkey's sweep and Cyprus unwinding its program. Tier two is Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Vanuatu and Saint Lucia, which have moved against named people. Tier three is Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Nauru, Egypt and Jordan, whose laws are broad and whose records show no published revocation. Malta is alone at the narrow end. The episode also covers Vanuatu, where a government spokesman said Andrew Tate's citizenship had been revoked before the Citizenship Commission said no such decision had been made, as well as the filing rules in Malta, Ireland and the Netherlands that can cost a passport without any wrongdoing. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Germany let new citizens retain their old passports in 2024, and a record 332,500 people naturalized in 2025. Senior figures in the ruling CDU are now drafting a plan to end it. No bill exists yet, and any law would need the Social Democrats. In the United States, the Justice Department made denaturalization an enforcement priority in 2025. A false tax return filed before naturalization can now start a case to strip a person's citizenship. IMI covers what the German plan could mean for Germans who buy a second passport, a Houston accountant whose 7,712-dollar refund led prosecutors to move against her citizenship, and an IRS checkbox for dual citizens that the agency has considered. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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 on its homestead exemption. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. This is a sponsored post by IMI Official Partner Orience. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

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. Read the full analysis here. Access a suite of powerful tools and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.