Golden visa

Golden visa — residency purchased through qualifying investment: UAE AED 2M ($545k) property for 10 years, Greece €250k, Portugal €500k fund route; citizenship-by-investment is the stronger, costlier cousin (Caribbean ~$200–250k donations). Priced honestly: these are optionality purchases — insurance against futures in which your passport or residence becomes the binding constraint — rational at the $10M+ decade of a path, not the $100k one. The industry selling them downmarket is the funnel 5.6 teaches you to read; thresholds also change on political whim, so verify before citing.

First used in: 5.6 · Going global, legally