Guides & Research
Guides that follow one decision to the end, and research on what has changed in the rules: the golden visa and citizenship routes of five jurisdictions, and living in Poland as a foreigner. Every entry lists the sections of our sources page its figures were checked against, and carries the date it was written — because a threshold that was right in August may not be in March, and an article that does not say when it was written is asking to be believed on trust.
Malta's attraction for British residents is usually described in one sentence: foreign income is taxed only if you bring it in. That sentence is about Maltese law, and Maltese law is only half the arrangement. The other half is article 23 of the UK-Malta convention of 1994, which limits the relief the United Kingdom gives to the part of the income Malta actually taxes. This page quotes both, with the dates each was read.
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Every guide to this move answers the Brexit question and stops. The instrument that decides a British person's tax position in Greece is older than that by two generations: a convention signed on 25 June 1953, in force since January 1954, with no protocol since. It has no tie-breaker for dual residence and no article on dividends at all. This page sets out what it does say, with the dates each document was read.
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Search demand for moving to Dubai from Britain fell by four fifths between February and April 2026 and has not recovered. This page records what happened, quotes what the British government's travel advice says today and when it last changed, and does not tell you whether to go. That last part is deliberate: nobody writing a relocation page is in a position to make that call for you, and several are making it anyway by saying nothing.
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Two tests decide a British citizen's tax position after this move, and neither is administered in Dubai. The first is the UK statutory residence test, which decides whether you have left the UK tax net at all. The second is article 4 of the UK-UAE convention of 2016, whose tie-breaker looks at a home available to you in Britain before it ever looks at your passport. This page sets out both, with the dates each instrument was read.
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Search this and you get the Brexit answer: freedom of movement ended, you need a visa now. True, and five years old. The instrument that actually decides a Briton's tax position in Portugal was replaced at the end of 2025 — a convention signed in 1968 gave way to one signed in September 2025, which reached UK income tax on 6 April 2026. The tax advisers' page on the first screen was written before it was signed.
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Most pages for Americans have caught up with the ten-year citizenship period. Almost none of them says when the ten years begin, and since 19 May 2026 that answer has changed for everyone whose file was not already open. The second thing nobody expects: the sentence letting the United States keep taxing you is not in Article 1 of the tax convention. Article 1 is one sentence long and does not contain it.
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The first page of results for this question is Reddit three times, three YouTube videos, a Facebook group and a shipping company. Between them they will tell you what the light is like on Crete. None of them mentions the two instruments that actually govern an American's position in Greece: a tax convention signed in 1950 that has never been rewritten, and a social security agreement that decides which country you pay into.
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Search for how long naturalisation takes in Greece and every page says seven years. The Code says three, seven or twelve, and which one applies to you turns on two things: your nationality, and whether your residence title appears on a closed list in article 5(1)(ε). The investor permit is on that list. Many others are not, and that is a five-year difference nobody is telling you about.
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Ask what it costs to live in Malta and the first page of results will give you figures between 782 and 2,205 euros a month for the same single person, none of them sourced. Malta happens to have something most countries do not: a register of every private residential lease actually signed since 2020. This page uses it, says what it does not cover, and names the one official statistic that is ten years old.
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Portugal has two digital nomad visas. They share a name, a nickname and an income threshold, and they lead to entirely different places: one is a stay of under a year, the other is a residence visa that ends in a permit. The market prints one euro figure and lets readers guess which visa it belongs to. Underneath that, the regulation that governs the second one still routes anybody already in Portugal through paragraphs of the law that were repealed in June 2024.
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Search for Portuguese citizenship and the first page of results will tell you five years and ten years at the same time, and almost none of it names the law that changed. Lei Organica 1/2026 did two things on 19 May 2026, in two different articles, and the second one is missing from the English-language market entirely: it repealed the paragraph under which time spent waiting for a residence permit counted towards naturalisation.
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Sixteen months after the Court of Justice ruled against it, the market still calls Malta's citizenship scheme suspended. It was not suspended. Its own regulations were amended: Part IV was deleted, together with the Second and Third Schedules, and the instrument was retitled. What replaced it grants citizenship on the basis of merit and publishes no price for it. Every step below carries the act, the gazette number and the date.
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