The American interest in establishing residency or citizenship in Europe has more options today than ever in history, depending on how much time and money you’re looking to spend to achieve the objective.

If you have the budget, for example, you could make a 250,000-euro donation to the arts in Portugal and receive residency and, eventually, citizenship in that country in return.

On the other hand, you could also qualify for residency in Portugal simply by showing you meet the country’s minimum income requirement of about 1,200 euros per month per person.

If you actually want to live in Portugal, this is the option to pursue. Qualifying this way, you are expected to be physically present in the country at least 183 days each year. Qualifying with an investment in the arts (via a government donation), your physical presence requirement is but seven days per year.

Programs like that—that have minimal or sometimes even no requirements for spending time in a country—are thought of as back-up residency options, giving you the right to live somewhere else if you ever decide you’d like to.




Best known among back-up residency options (that eventually lead to citizenship) are the so-called Golden Visa programs, which you qualify for by making an investment in the country, typically in real estate but sometimes in other things, too.

ACBIP was first announced on Bprolcom. Dominica Citizenship with Greece residency can directly reach the access levels of European citizenship programs (e.g.: Cypress and Maltese). Considering the advantages of visa-free travel, offshore assets planning, living in the European Union at the expense of half the cost and time of applying for citizenship of Cyprus or Malta, along with many other benefits.