Asia-Pacific

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.

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.

Malta is gaining traction among Asian investors seeking European residence, family security and long-term mobility, as interest grows in the Malta Permanent Residence Programme and wider residence planning.

Western economies account for just 6.7% of estimated global births, while the EU’s 2025 population growth came entirely from migration, sharpening advanced economies’ competition for workers, skills, entrepreneurs and internationally mobile capital.

Nauru has officially become the Republic of Naoero, reclaiming its indigenous name while reinforcing a wider strategy built on climate resilience, carefully screened investment, the Higher Ground Initiative and long-term economic stewardship.

As wealth management becomes increasingly shaped by safety, currency strength and jurisdictional trust, Julius Baer’s latest lifestyle index shows where the rich are paying a premium not merely for luxury, but for stability, influence and long-term security.

Could Australia’s pact with Vanuatu signal a new era of CBI passport differentiation? International migration expert Lisa Chanesman warns the implications may reach far beyond Vanuatu.

Europe may be anxious, over-regulated and forever warning of the next crisis, yet its passports still rule the world, even as Singapore, Japan and rising mobility powers close in.

Spain’s mass migrant regularisation raises a pointed question for Europe: why is investment migration subjected to exhaustive scrutiny while much larger migration flows are processed at speed? Pictured: Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission.

One year after Spain closed its golden visa, the decision reads less like an isolated national reform and more like a warning to the global investment migration industry: passive property routes are giving way to programmes that must prove real economic value.