IMI Podcasts

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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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