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India’s wealthy are increasingly treating overseas residence as financial insurance, using global mobility to diversify family risk, expand opportunities and secure a practical Plan B without necessarily leaving India.

Americans are looking beyond the traditional second passport as wealthy families increasingly build Plan B and Plan C strategies, diversifying residence, citizenship and jurisdictional risk across borders.

The Trump administration is preparing a potentially record visa revocation targeting foreign visitors who subsequently sought asylum, raising questions over immigration enforcement, legal status and the future of thousands of pending cases.

Europe’s new migration pact faces an early test as northern states resume asylum transfers to Italy, reviving tensions over first-entry rules, solidarity and responsibility for migrant arrivals.

Migration law expert Lisa Chanesman explains why New Zealand’s Active Investor Plus Visa is gaining traction among global investors and how it fits into wider wealth planning, residency diversification and long-term mobility strategies.

A four-minute raid on Spain’s Treasure of Villena highlights a growing global threat to cultural heritage, where stolen artefacts represent not only financial loss, but an assault on national identity, collective wealth and soft power.

Canada has clarified how citizenship by descent works after Bill C-3, widening historic claims while requiring some future generations born abroad to prove a real connection to Canada through a 1,095-day physical presence test.

The US has temporarily disrupted immigrant-visa appointments worldwide as consular officers undergo additional public-charge screening training, creating fresh uncertainty for families and other applicants navigating an increasingly restrictive immigration system.

Latvia is recasting its Golden Visa regime around a €150,000 fund investment, replacing traditional property and bank routes as tighter security screening and declining programme use reshape investor residence in the Baltic state.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Irish castle purchase highlights a wider trend: global wealth is turning to Ireland’s great estates, drawn by privacy, scarcity, political stability, EU access and the country’s unusually insulated Atlantic geography.