Long-form thinking for people who plan in decades.
Guides from the Indohill Research Desk on legal outcomes, true costs, due diligence and route selection, written to be useful before you ever speak to an adviser.
Citizenship, residency and tax residency: three different things
Why the most expensive mistakes in global mobility start with treating a passport, a permit and a tax status as one thing.
Read the guideThe true cost of an investment migration program
Contribution, statutory fees, due diligence, legal, transaction costs and the capital you cannot touch — the whole bill, line by line.
Read the guideProgram risk: how investment migration routes close, and how to plan for it
Closures, repricing, sunset clauses, court rulings and visa-waiver pressure: the pattern behind every route that ended, and how to plan around it.
Read the guideWhy applications are refused, and how to avoid it
Source of wealth, background screening and the quiet document defects that sink otherwise strong files.
Read the guideSource of wealth: the practical documentation guide
An evidence matrix, a seven-step method and the hard cases, from cash businesses to crypto, for building the file every screener reads first.
Read the guideDonation, real estate or fund: choosing the investment route
Five ways to qualify, five different risk profiles. What each route actually costs you, and what you keep.
Read the guideSequencing a second passport: a framework for family offices
Residence first, citizenship later, or both at once? A staged approach that respects home-country rules, tax and time.
Read the guideThe family office relocation playbook: seven phases from diagnosis to governance
How to move a family's centre of gravity in the right order: status, exit, evidence, structures, and the discipline that keeps it all valid.
Read the guideChildren, nationality and succession: planning a second passport across generations
Descent rules, dependant definitions, dual-nationality limits and the law that governs your estate, the cross-generation questions that decide a passport's real value.
Read the guideThe Caribbean citizenship programs compared: what actually differs
Five nations, one shared price floor. Why the headline numbers converge, and the real differences in routes, treaties, process and family rules.
Read the guideEurope's residency-by-investment landscape: what remains, and how it differs
Spain, Ireland and the UK have closed their routes; Portugal reshaped its own. A clear map of the three families of European program that remain.
Read the guideGulf golden visas compared: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain
Four sponsor-free residence programs, a threefold price range and two very different meanings of "long-term". What actually separates them.
Read the guideAsia-Pacific residence routes compared: Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and the Maldives
Five very different instruments under one regional label: a selective business program, a portfolio scheme, a deposit-plus-property visa, a ten-year permission and an unfinished new entrant.
Read the guideLatin America residency routes compared: Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Argentina, Mexico and the Dominican Republic
The lowest entry prices of any region, and the most caveats: sunset dates, nationality restrictions, committed-capital structures and solvency tests.
Read the guideNorth America, Africa and Oceania compared: EB-5, Quebec, New Zealand, Mauritius, Egypt and São Tomé
The most demanding programs and the newest ones: job-creation, net-worth and language tests, a patient New Zealand investment, and three very different African routes.
Read the guideFive illustrative scenarios: how the framework works on real-shaped questions
A founder who cannot hold two passports, a family with children near the age limit, an entrepreneur who will not relocate, a family office on the move and a ministry designing a program. Hypothetical, and worked the way we work.
Read the guideTax residence and substance: a primer on the tests, the treaties and the evidence
How countries decide who is resident, what treaty tie-breakers do, why "substance" now matters and how to avoid being resident nowhere you want or everywhere you do not.
Read the guideReading a program's legal basis: statutes, regulations, decrees and practice
Brochures describe a program; law defines it. How to tell the layers apart, which one controls, and what to look for when you read the source.
Read the guideSecond passport or residence permit? A decision guide that starts with the right questions
Three questions settle most cases before price comes up. Then an honest, side-by-side comparison of what each outcome gives, what it costs and where it goes wrong.
Read the guideBanking after approval: why a new passport does not open an account, and what does
Banks assess identity, source of wealth, tax residence and risk appetite. What they ask, how to arrive prepared, and how to keep an account once you have one.
Read the guideReal-estate due diligence for residency routes: the programme test and the investment test
A property can qualify for a permit and still be a poor asset. How to pass the programme rules and the investment rules at the same time.
Read the guideDesigning a credible citizenship or residence program: a guide for governments
Seven design pillars, the common failure modes, and why credibility, not price, decides whether an investment migration program endures.
Read the guideWhat passport indexes measure, and what they cannot
A visa-free count is a useful start and a poor finish. How to read a mobility score like an analyst.
Read the guideChoosing an adviser: ten questions to ask, and the answers that should end the conversation
Advice is often less regulated than the programs themselves. Ten questions on licensing, fees, client money and scope, plus the green and red flags that matter.
Read the guidePlanning your timeline: why programs take as long as they do, and how to work backwards from a deadline
Published processing times describe a program, not your file. The six stages of the real clock, what moves it, and how to plan when a deadline is involved.
Read the guideLeaving your home country: a checklist for the side of the move nobody plans
Status, exit charges, ties, obligations that follow citizenship, accounts and structures: the origin-side questions to settle before and after you leave.
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