Policy Update
Recent regulatory changes, visa bulletin reads, and international migration policy shifts.
United Arab Emirates migration policy: 2025 year-in-review for private wealth
United Arab Emirates migration policy: 2025 year-in-review for private wealth
United Arab Emirates migration policy: the 2026 outlook for private wealth
The question is no longer whether the United Arab Emirates will tighten its migration framework for high-net-worth individuals, but which specific mechanisms…
United Arab Emirates migration policy: Q1 2026 policy update for private wealth
The first quarter of 2026 brought a series of regulatory and administrative adjustments to the United Arab Emirates’ migration framework, none of which amoun…
United Arab Emirates migration policy: Q2 2026 policy update for private wealth
The second quarter of 2026 has brought a series of administrative and procedural revisions to the United Arab Emirates migration framework that directly affe…
Australia migration policy: 2025 year-in-review for private wealth
The Australian federal government’s 2025 budget, delivered on 13 May, confirmed that the Business Innovation and Investment (Provisional) visa (subclass 188)…
Australia migration policy: the 2026 outlook for private wealth
Australia migration policy: the 2026 outlook for private wealth
Australia migration policy: Q1 2026 policy update for private wealth
Australia migration policy: Q1 2026 policy update for private wealth
Australia migration policy: Q2 2026 policy update for private wealth
Australia migration policy: Q2 2026 policy update for private wealth
Portugal migration policy: 2025 year-in-review for private wealth
The 2025 calendar year produced a net reduction in the number of active migration pathways for high-net-worth individuals in Portugal, driven by the cumulati…
Portugal migration policy: the 2026 outlook for private wealth
The question of whether Portugal remains a viable migration pathway for high-net-worth individuals in 2026 is no longer answered by a single statute or a min…
Portugal migration policy: Q1 2026 policy update for private wealth
Portugal migration policy: Q1 2026 policy update for private wealth
Portugal migration policy: Q2 2026 policy update for private wealth
The Portuguese parliament passed, on 14 April 2026, a legislative package that rewrites the statutory conditions for the non-habitual tax regime (NHR) and in…
Singapore migration policy: 2025 year-in-review for private wealth
Singapore migration policy: 2025 year-in-review for private wealth
Singapore migration policy: the 2026 outlook for private wealth
The Singapore migration framework for private-wealth applicants in 2026 is defined not by a single headline reform, but by a set of discrete, operationally s…
Singapore migration policy: Q1 2026 policy update for private wealth
Singapore migration policy: Q1 2026 policy update for private wealth
Singapore migration policy: Q2 2026 policy update for private wealth
Singapore migration policy: Q2 2026 policy update for private wealth
United Kingdom migration policy: 2025 year-in-review for private wealth
The 2025 calendar year represented the first full operating period under the United Kingdom’s post-remittance-basis tax framework, and the data from HMRC’s f…
United Kingdom migration policy: the 2026 outlook for private wealth
The United Kingdom’s post-Brexit migration architecture is entering its most consequential year since the 2022 reforms, with three structural changes converg…
United Kingdom migration policy: Q1 2026 policy update for private wealth
The non-dom regime ended on 5 April 2025, but the first quarter of 2026 has revealed its replacement more clearly than any ministerial statement did in the p…
United Kingdom migration policy: Q2 2026 policy update for private wealth
The second quarter of 2026 brought the first full set of operational data and procedural refinements following the April 2025 abolition of the non-dom regime…
United States migration policy: 2025 year-in-review for private wealth
The most consequential development in United States migration policy for high-net-worth individuals during 2025 was not a single statute but a coordinated re…
United States migration policy: the 2026 outlook for private wealth
The question of United States migration policy for high-net-worth individuals in 2026 is not about whether the country remains open to wealthy foreign invest…
United States migration policy: Q1 2026 policy update for private wealth
The first quarter of 2026 has produced no single headline reform to United States business immigration, but a series of discrete regulatory adjustments and j…
United States migration policy: Q2 2026 policy update for private wealth
The Q2 2026 quarter delivered a series of discrete, jurisdiction-specific changes to the United States migration framework that directly affect high-net-wort…