The Mobility Standard

Most high earners owe up to 50% of their income 1) because they live in a high-tax country and 2) because they can't afford to spend more than half the year (i.e. the 183-day tax residency rule) in a more tax-friendly jurisdiction. But you can have your cake and eat it too! In this video, you'll learn five jurisdictions that legally accept you as a tax resident with just 90 days or fewer of physical presence.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.

If you're a HNW investor or entrepreneur, you've probably looked at relocating either your assets or yourself to one or more of these jurisdictions. In this video, we'll compare each of the world's top tax-friendly jurisdictions wealthy clients weigh in 2026. Each fits a completely different investor profile, and matching yours to the wrong one could cost millions.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.

Retirement does not have to cost you your life savings or pension. These 12 countries pair a dedicated visa program with a tax break for pensioners and retirees, from Malta's 15% headline rate down to the five jurisdictions that drop taxes from foreign income 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.

Passport rankings have lost most of their meaning to an algorithmic border infrastructure screening 1.4 billion travelers before they ever board. IMI contributor Giselle Bru covers the three risk profiles already costing wealthy investors their mobility and the three pillars that rebuild it.Read Bru's 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.

On March 31, El Salvador's Decree 531 cut the temporary residency presence requirement from 9 months to just 90 days a year – yet also tightened the rules for keeping Salvadoran citizenship once you have it. In this video, you'll learn what President Bukele changed, the three most popular routes into the country, and why one industry insider says President Bukele is running the UAE's playbook.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.

In 2025, Saint Kitts & Nevis revoked 13 citizenships, and the investors lost both the passport and the investment. Why? In this video, you'll get the 23-item checklist that would have caught every red flag before a dollar was wired.Read the full list and analysis here. Access the CBI Agent Risk Checker, a suite of other powerful tools, and the world's #1 private investor community as an IMI Sovereign. Use code SOV10 for 10% off your first month.

Only four residency programs offer qualifying bank deposit options under $100,000 in 2026, but each one has a structural catch that decides whether it works as a Plan B for you. This video walks through all four programs with their deposit thresholds, the upgrade paths, and the asterisks the brochures leave out.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.

Citizenship by investment does not have to cost six figures. Three African countries now sell citizenship for as little as $90,000, making the continent the cheapest emerging market citizenship cluster in the world. In this video, you'll learn about all three options, what each passport unlocks, and a potential fourth program that could undercut them within months.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.

After 14 years of socialist rule and a collapsed currency, Bolivia may provide an investment-free path to a Mercosur passport with regulated USDT custody and zero foreign-source tax. IMI contributor Edwin Hudepol covers what's changed under President Paz, what investor profile the country fits, and how the FATF grey-list and wealth-tax catches affect the country's outlook.Read Edwin Hudepol's 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.

Italy just expanded its 7% flat tax regime to 74 new towns across Southern Italy, including Pompeii, Noto, and Ostuni. In this video, you'll learn how the regime works, why Americans can effectively pay near 0%, and how Italy now stacks up against regional rivals Portugal, Greece, and Malta.Read the full story 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.

12 real estate-based golden visa and citizenship by investment programs lead into rental markets yielding 6%+ gross, with one country topping 8.5%. IMI ranks all 12 by rental yield and reveals where inflation, currency, and luxury thresholds can destroy the headline number.Read the full analysis and list here.

A second citizenship doesn't have to cost six figures. More than 30 countries across the Americas hand a passport to any child born on their soil. Moreover, in this video, you'll learn the three countries few investors know about where the parents get a fast-track passport too.Read the full analysis and list here.

Investment migration expert and IMI Pro Kemal Nicholson argues that Donald Trump and the European Union are forcing citizenship by investment into a new era he calls CBI 2.0: More expensive, slower, and far more selective. In this video, IMI covers which programs will survive and collapse and three ways investors should act before the window closes.Read the full story here.

California's 5% billionaire wealth tax has cleared the ballot threshold and could raise $100 billion if voters approve it in November. In this video, IMI covers the law applying retroactively to any residents worth over $1 billion on January 1, the billionaire exodus already in motion, the $80 million counter-offensive funded by Google's founders, and the three strategies wealthy Americans are running to prepare for a potential federal version.Read the full story here. 

Is Europe finished? IMI contributor and global tax expert Jimmy Sexton argues the EU has regulated itself out of relevance and lost the global tech race to the US and China for one specific, terminal reason. We unpack his case, including the moment Europe's own cybersecurity chief admitted "We've lost the whole cloud; we have lost the internet."Read the full analysis here.

UPDATE: President António José Seguro approved the new nationality rules on Sunday, May 3, 2026. Portugal has now officially doubled the citizenship wait from 5 years to 10, with no grandfathering for residents who arrived under the old rules. IMI Pro David Bonellie analyzes the four most damaging changes in the new nationality law.Read Bonellie's piece here and the nationality law update here.

29 countries exempt foreign income from local tax. But would you want to live 183+ days in all of them? These 15 places you may actually want to live in, and IMI covers all of them across four distinct frameworks for tax-free living.Read the full article here.

Investors are flocking to African residency and citizenship programs before they increase in price. In this video, you'll learn about the 8 active African residency by investment programs available today,. The case for looking here at all: pricing at a third of the global floor, ECOWAS settlement rights across 15 West African states, and some programs that could eventually unlock Schengen access.Read the full story with more details here.

Wondering the fastest 2nd passport route on every inhabited continent in 2026? From a $90,000 investment program that issues citizenship in six weeks to a two-year naturalization clock – Six continents, six speeds, and the trade-offs that decide which one fits you – We covered it all.Read the full story here. 

Turkish President Erdogan's proposed 20-year tax holiday could outlast every other regime, with zero entry cost or required investment. IMI covers why Turkey is moving now and what this means for the country's citizenship by investment program.Read the full story here. 

Greek golden visa approvals jumped nearly 96% in 2025, and the government just dropped a 31-page circular targeting fake deals fueling the boom. In this video, you'll learn the new fraud rules, the €250,000 option that survives, and why the Airbnb ban is narrower than the headlines suggest.Read the full story here.

In 2025, the European Court of Justice ended formal citizenship by investment programs across the EU, shutting down Malta, Cyprus, Montenegro, and North Macedonia. IMI covers how citizenship by merit is becoming the new shadow market for wealthy investors in Europe.Read the full article here.

Remote work permits often trip the tax residency threshold that make nomads pay more tax than they had predicted. Your foreign income, taxed once at home, becomes fair game locally as well. But a small group of digital nomad visas sidesteps this rule entirely through one of four mechanisms, and IMI's latest video covers 15 of them.Read the full article here.

Chile has the strongest passport in Latin America. Will it sit on the sidelines while Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay attract capital and talent? In an IMI Daily opinion piece, Chilean investment migration expert Maria Esperanza Schorr Donoso makes the case that the country is leaving one of the industry's largest opportunities on the table.

Most golden visas cover a spouse and minor children. These nine go further, allowing parents, grandparents, siblings, and adult children well into their thirties.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

Twelve golden visas that grant residency through passive investment while demanding zero or near-zero time in the country. The full list for Plan B investors in 2026.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

Buried clause in December's military reform requires Bundeswehr approval for extended male absences; dual nationals included, enforcement mechanisms remain undefined.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

This guide covers every active CBI program and the handful of countries where naturalization takes two to three years.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

Regional Center filings surged 38% year-on-year; direct petitions remain marginal with a 58% denial rate.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

Parliament approves revised nationality law 152-64 after PSD-Chega deal; no transitional protections; PS-affiliated president may veto or delay.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

The initiative, described by officials as a “market-based evolution” of existing CBI programs, will for the first time allow individuals to transact directly in nationality without state intermediation.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

The flat tax and impatriati stack has an expiry date. Marco Mesina maps the transitional window and its limits.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

PS proposes 6/9-year timelines with grandfathering; PSD/CDS-PP eliminate phase-in for current residents; Chega sets lowest criminal bar.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here.

The two most popular residency routes abroad solve different problems. One demands investment capital, the other demands proof of income. Choosing wrong costs years.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

He left for India on a family trip. When he tried to fly back, his ten-year golden visa no longer existed.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

Algorithmic border systems are quietly reshaping global mobility; passport rankings fail to capture the risk.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

Six continents, six fastest routes to a new passport. CBI programs dominate where they exist. Where they do not, naturalization timelines decide the race.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

Both Malta and Cyprus grant permanent residency to non-EU investors, but they differ on Schengen access, family inclusion, investment options, and the path to citizenship. Here is how they compare.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

3,172 approvals and nearly US$1B in deposits and property; MM2H's rebound from its disastrous 2021 overhaul is now quantifiable.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

The data feed the EU's new visa suspension mechanism, which lowered the overstay threshold that can trigger loss of visa-free access.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

Roseau reverses course on a market it reopened just four years ago amid the US-Iran war; however, some caveats still apply.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

New rules may apply retroactively to pending cases; the parliamentary naturalization system leaves applicants with no legal recourse.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

Existing CBI passports issued before April 14 expire for travel purposes on July 31, 2027 unless holders complete biometric enrollment.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

Europe is a high-tax continent, but seven countries offer special regimes that exempt or cap taxation on foreign income. We rank the best options for 2026.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

Every passport index on the internet ranks just one metric: Visa-free access. This is flawed. In this video, IMI picks the strongest citizenship in all 7 world regions based on tax treatment, dual citizenship rules, settlement rights, and border reputation. We hope to make you reconsider what a "strong passport" really is.Read the full article here.

Five East Asian economies offer investment-based residency, but each program carries distinct costs, limitations, and long-term settlement prospects. All five are getting more expensive.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here.

Of 2.9 million BNO citizens, over two million don't hold a valid passport. Many may not know they have this citizenship at all.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

The bill cleared both chambers after the longest floor debate in state history; if signed, Seattle's combined top rate would reach 18%, the highest in the US.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here. 

14 months after the first announcement, Wheatley says discussions continue; no thresholds or timeline have been set. Explains why the country will never have a CBI program.View the full article here.Subscribe to the IMI Daily newsletter here.