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An immigration approval answers whether someone may reside in the country. It rarely answers the next question: how that resident gets healthcare and who pays. Under these eight routes, a holder may need private insurance, separate public-system enrollment or direct payment at resident or expatriate rates. The practical questions are whether a resident may use

In April 2025, the Trump administration introduced one of the most sweeping economic and trade policy decisions in decades: tariffs by way of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA. The policy remained in effect until Feb. 20, 2026, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the implementation of tariffs by way of IEEPA

A Bank of Greece study found that property transactions clustered differently after Greece changed its Golden Visa thresholds. For years, the country’s Golden Visa program allowed non-EU buyers to qualify through a property purchase of at least 250,000 euros. As Aegalis explains below, transactions began clustering around that figure. When Greece doubled the minimum in

  When a U.S. enterprise makes the decision to expand internationally, the finance team usually builds a market-entry model. Everything from projected revenue and cost of customer acquisition to headcount and infrastructure are accounted for. Value-added tax tends to appear somewhere near the bottom of the list, treated as a compliance checkbox to be handed

  International tax compliance in 2026 isn’t some one-and-done project. Enterprise finance teams tracking cross-border expansion are being forced to contend with an unusually dense stretch of rule changes that are hitting simultaneously across the European Union, Asia, the Gulf, Canada, and multiple states across the U.S. Some of these changes tighten enforcement of existing

  Across North America, sovereign wealth funds appear to be the social policy du jour. Sen. Bernie Sanders recently proposed a sovereign wealth fund that would tax shares of AI companies to give an annual cash dividend to Americans, and has introduced legislation to that effect. On the other end of the political spectrum, President

  Pipelines, pipelines, pipelines. No matter how you feel about them, it’s hard to escape news of them lately. In July, the Alberta government announced it is formally proposing another pipeline to the West Coast. On the weekend, the federal government took another step towards designating the pipeline as a project in the national interest,

  Doctors from other countries can and do practice medicine in the United States. In fact, foreign-born physicians make up roughly 1 in 4 U.S. doctors, with an estimated 325,000 trained abroad and now working here as of late 2025. The challenge is that practicing legally in the U.S. requires two separate things: a state

  For several years, when Pierre-Yves Loaëc left his office in Nantes in the evenings, he passed a woman sleeping rough in the parking lot near Nobilito, the marketing agency he runs. The contrast nagged at him. Outside, she huddled near a parking garage vent for warmth during the winter. “My office had heat, a

  For most of the globalized era, international expansion was seen as an initiative for ambitious enterprises and trade-savvy entrepreneurs. Businesses mainly entered foreign markets for the obvious reasons: expanding their reach, increasing sales, and accelerating performance. Today, the conversation is different. Economic volatility, unpredictable trade policies, and supply chain disruptions are highlighting an uncomfortable

  Greece’s Golden Visa grants renewable residence permits to qualifying non-EU investors and eligible family members, most commonly through property investment. At the end of May 2026, the country still had 33,051 related applications awaiting a decision, Movingto reports. That was 2,618 fewer than the 35,669 pending at the end of March, a 7.3% reduction

  Six Golden Visa-linked fund disclosures named 26 underlying companies. Twenty-three have Portuguese headquarters, led by 15 in Lisbon district. The sample measures transparency—not the whole market or the amount invested in each place. Portugal’s Golden Visa fund market is usually described in broad labels: venture capital, private equity, energy, debt, or technology. Public reports

  At the January benchmark, an investment of 500,000 euros translated to about $586,050. At the latest available benchmark, the same euro amount translated to $570,900, a difference of $15,150. This is a currency-translation exercise, not a historical audit of immigration rules. It applies both exchange rates to the current standard or listed amounts shown

  In a cluster of Sardinian mountain villages, the longevity gap between the sexes all but vanishes. Men reach 100 at nearly the same rate as women, according to data from the UN World Population Prospects 2024. And in one village, they even edge ahead, something researchers have documented almost nowhere else. As gut microbiome

Movingto.com reports a 183% surge in American inquiries for European residency, driven by political uncertainty and shifting visa options.