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Golden Visas and Beyond: The GCC Residency Economy in 2026

Benchmarking the UAE, Saudi and Qatar residency products against a closing West — and sizing the property, schooling, insurance and advisory economy they feed

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22 JUL 202613 MINCLOSED

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Residency became a product line — and the Gulf now owns the shelf

Investment migration used to be a European specialty with a Gulf footnote. In under three years the shelf has been rearranged. Portugal removed residential property from its golden visa in October 2023; Spain terminated its programme outright in April 2025; and the EU Court of Justice struck down Malta''s citizenship-by-investment scheme the same month. In the opposite direction, Saudi Arabia expanded Premium Residency from two tracks to seven (January 2024), Qatar entered the market with a US$200,000 property permit (October 2025), and the UAE removed the last frictions from its property Gol…

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