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Comment on investor migration, programme thresholds and cross-border tax, from a CISI Level 7 Chartered Wealth Manager who advises on these programmes rather than sells them. Everything published here names the instrument it rests on and carries the date it was last checked.
About goldenvisas.ai
goldenvisas.ai publishes reference data on residence and citizenship-by-investment programmes, the financing structures used to fund them, and the tax position of the people who use them.
It is a single chartered practitioner, not an editorial desk. Every figure on the site traces to a named legal instrument or an official government page, recorded with the date it was last verified. Where a figure cannot be sourced that way, it is not published - which is why this site carries no market-size estimates and no application-volume claims.
Advisory work covers Europe, the Gulf, Asia-Pacific and North America, with particular depth in Lombard financing - lending against a securities portfolio so an investor can fund a subscription without liquidating a position.
Who you would be speaking to
Luke D. Coupe - CISI Level 7 Chartered Wealth Manager. MSc Global Finance, University of London. LLB.
Around a decade advising high and ultra-high-net-worth clients, of which roughly seven years on investment migration. Comment is given in his own name and on the record.
There is no press office and no second spokesperson. Requests go straight to him, which is usually why the reply is quick.
Topics for comment
Scoped to what can be answered first-hand and on the record. For anything outside this list, say so in the request and you will get a straight yes or a referral rather than an improvised answer.
Programme thresholds and closures
- Which investor programmes are open, closed, or proposed but not enacted
- Why published minimums and all-in cost diverge
- Programme closures and what happens to applications already filed
- Caribbean CBI under the EU visa suspension mechanism
- The US Gold Card and how it differs from EB-5
EU law and investor citizenship
- CJEU Case C-181/23, Commission v Malta, and what it did and did not decide
- What Malta operates now, and why it is not a successor scheme
- Spain after Ley Organica 1/2025
- Portugal, Greece and the drift from property to funds
- Why residence and citizenship routes should never be quoted interchangeably
Financing and portfolio structuring
- Lombard and securities-backed lending against a portfolio
- Funding a subscription without liquidating a position
- Currency and rate risk on a multi-year commitment
- Where financing a migration investment stops making sense
Cross-border tax
- Territorial and remittance-basis regimes compared
- Exit taxes and the cost of leaving a jurisdiction
- US citizens abroad and why a second residence does not solve filing
- Double taxation treaties and the limits of what they relieve
Include your publication, your deadline and the specific question
Reference data
These four pages are maintained as reference sets rather than articles. Each shows its sources and the date it was last checked, so a figure taken from one can be defended by whoever republishes it.
Programme comparison table
Every profiled investor programme on one page with its minimum, route type and status, so residence and citizenship routes are never conflated.
Corporate income tax rates, 80 jurisdictions
Statutory headline rates by jurisdiction, reviewed September 2026, with the surcharges and local levies that move the effective rate noted separately.
Passport strength index
Visa-free counts and comparison tooling, with the caveat most rankings omit: a count is not a measure of where the holder can actually work or settle.
Knowledge hub
Long-form guides and the running record of programme changes, each item naming the instrument it rests on rather than a generic official source.
Assets
Everything available, linked directly. No request needed.
Need something that is not here - a different crop, a higher resolution, a specific chart? Email and it will be made.
Media contact
Press enquiries, interview requests and background briefings go through the contact form and are read by Luke directly.
Using this material
Attribution. Cite as “goldenvisas.ai”, with a link to the specific page rather than the homepage where you can. Comment is attributed to Luke D. Coupe, CISI Level 7 Chartered Wealth Manager.
Cite the instrument, not just this site. Every threshold published here names the law, decree or official page it comes from, and the date it was last checked. If you are reporting a figure, take the instrument reference too and cite that alongside. It is better for your piece, it survives longer than a link to any website, and it is why the sourcing is shown.
Reuse of data. The comparison and tax tables may be republished with attribution. Ask before reproducing a table in full and you will usually get a cleaner version of it, current as at your publication date.
Quotes. Quotes are given on the record and can be checked back for accuracy before publication. Nothing here is approval over your copy - only a check that the technical detail has not been garbled in editing.
What will not be provided. Market-size figures, application volumes and industry growth rates. This site does not collect that data and will not repeat someone else’s estimate of it as though it were its own. If you need those numbers, the OECD, the IMF and national immigration authorities publish the defensible versions.