Does this ring true?

[Dim Witty]

 

[Ries]

No. There are a lot of countries where you just pay, and they give it to you.

 

[Ries]

Its possible to just buy a business or a building, in places like Canada or Portugal, and get residency and a path to citizenship. In Argentina, everything takes a year, or 3, and is full of constantly changing requirements, new documents requested, and different results for the same applications to different people, for no apparent reason.
Certainly there are countries where its harder, but its not number one easiest.

 

[FrankPintor]

Ireland isn't that easy, the requirement is 5 years of residency (3 if you're naturalizing by marriage), with 12 months of unbroken residency immediately before applying for citizenship.

There was a "golden visa" program allowing residency (not citizenship) but I understand it's been discontinued.

 

[MarshallE]

Argentina, under the old rules, was the easiest place to naturalize by far. The bar was absolutely on the floor in terms of requirements. 2 years of presence in the country, no legal residence permit (DNI) required, just show up as a tourist or even illegally and do the 2 years. Don't need to pay taxes in Argentina, don't even need to have a job in Argentina, foreign income is fine. No need to learn Spanish, no constitution exam etc. And for a great citizenship that grants a lot of travel and residency privileges.

Under the new rules things are still a bit complicated, Migraciones has not yet developed the procedures for how to actually process a naturalization case, so for folks that didn't apply under the old rules before May 2025 their applications are all at a standstill.

 

[Silvie]

May be before. You will get stuck paying for taxes on what you own all over the world. I would think twice.