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This is exactly the plan, it turns out \u2014\u00a0Argentina wants more people like him. The country has been preparing for the last year to launch a full citizenship-by-investment scheme. In July 2025, Decree 524\/2025 established an Investment Citizenship Programs Agency within its Ministry of Economy that would allow, for the first time, foreign investors to apply for citizenship without needing to reside in Argentina first. The exact parameters are still being worked out, with the Financial Times<\/em> reporting that wealthy foreigners may be able to obtain Argentine citizenship in exchange for a non-refundable donation of about $500,000 or buying $1 million in zero-coupon government bonds, citing people familiar with the government\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

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The sheer scale of the plan is what sets it apart from anything the citizenship-by-investment industry has tried before, according to Nuri Katz, the founder of Apex Capital Partners, who said he has spent considerable time in Argentina and is aware of the government\u2019s processes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a country of over 40 million people, and the opportunities, the business opportunities that are available in Argentina are endless,\u201d he told Fortune<\/em>. The largest countries to previously offer citizenship for investment\u2014Montenegro and Malta\u2014are small nations by comparison, he noted.<\/p>\n

Katz pointed to several selling points for wealthy investors. The country sits on Vaca Muerta, one of the world\u2019s largest shale oil and gas formations, which has been geologically compared to the Eagle Ford shale in South Texas by experts, alongside major lithium, gold, silver, soy, corn, beef, and wheat industries. He cited the roughly $22 billion a year in trade that Argentina has with the European Union as further evidence of the scale of opportunity.<\/p>\n

The push builds on reporting the government has been developing to court prominent wealthy figures to what a former official described as a \u201cnew land of freedom\u201d for billionaires.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will be a serious contender and player in the wealth migration, investment migration space,\u201d Dominic Volek, who advises ultra-high-net-worth families on residence and citizenship planning at Henley & Partners, told Fortune<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The appetite for such an option isn\u2019t hypothetical. Wealthy families in the U.S. are actively searching for safe havens. A proprietary survey of 1,800 Americans commissioned by Katz\u2019s firm found that 61% would consider moving out of the United States within the next five years\u2014a number Katz called \u201cincredibly shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n

For years, wealthy Americans looked to New Zealand, Portugal, Greece, and the Caribbean as backup plans. Now Argentina\u2014long associated with inflation, capital controls, and default risk\u2014is trying to sell itself as a Plan B for outsiders with money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Argentina\u2019s passport already grants visa-free access to a long list of countries, Volek noted, but citizenship would come with an added bonus: settlement rights across the nine-country Mercosur bloc \u2013 which includes Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador \u2014 similar to what an EU passport confers across Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s increased optionality available to you,\u201d he said, explaining that Argentina\u2019s remoteness from the U.S. while also being in a similar time zone makes it \u201cincredibly attractive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Katz also said the flight to Buenos Aires, while nearly as long as a trip to Europe, doesn\u2019t come with the jet lag that a European trip does. \u201cThat\u2019s a huge, huge thing for somebody, especially an American business person, whose life is travel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Katz also pointed to a bigger-picture safety pitch: South America is currently the only continent besides Antarctica that isn\u2019t at war, and Argentina itself hasn\u2019t fought one in decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thiel\u2019s arrival is a signal, but the open question is whether Argentina can turn billionaire curiosity into durable capital, or whether it is selling a safe haven in a country still defined by volatility. Volek\u2019s firm expects Argentina\u2019s citizenship-by-investment program to go live by the end of the year and is already holding a roster of clients ready to apply the moment it does.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor our business and for the investment migration industry as a whole, it will be quite a game changer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s really no such thing as a golden visa,\u201d Katz told Fortune<\/em>. \u201cThese are temporary statuses, and they can go away.\u201d Only citizenship, he said, gives someone the assurance that they\u2019ll be able to remain in a country indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Despite the Argentine government\u2019s framing of the program through a tax lens, advisors caution against reading Argentina\u2019s push\u2014or the broader boom in second citizenships\u2014as primarily a tax play, at least for Americans. The U.S. taxes its citizens on worldwide income no matter where they live, so acquiring Argentine citizenship changes nothing for a client\u2019s IRS bill unless they go through the far more drastic step of renouncing U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n

Instead, getting a second citizenship applies the logic of wealthy people\u2019s portfolio diversifying instincts to passports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy on earth would you have one country of citizenship and only one country that you can live in when you have the financial capacity to build a portfolio of options?\u201d Volek said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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David Lesperance, a leading international tax and immigration advisor with over three decades of experience, tells American clients to think of their citizenship and residency options as a hedge against whatever their personal \u201cwildfire\u201d might be\u2014a hurricane, an earthquake, political violence, antisemitism, mass shootings, or a punitive new tax.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at these alternative residences and citizenships as fire insurance, and people incorporate them into a fire escape plan, they may not actually leave unless the literal wildfire happens,\u201d Lesperance told Fortune<\/em>. \u201cBut I recognize that it could happen, and I have the means to protect my family from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Crucially, Lesperance said, a move like Thiel\u2019s doesn\u2019t require moving money along with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need to separate where you live from where your assets are,\u201d he said, describing having considered relocating his own family to Buenos Aires before ultimately choosing Koh Samui, Thailand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you\u2019re going to physically move yourself and your family to a place like Argentina, that does not require me to move my wealth to Argentina,\u201d he said. A client might simply like Buenos Aires and consider it safe for their family, he said, while making an entirely separate decision about where to bank and pay taxes.<\/p>\n

Lesperance has seen South America\u2019s profile rise sharply among his American clients over the past year to 18 months, alongside longer-running interest in Europe. But for now, both advisors and their clients are in wait-and-see mode.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is sort of waiting for the program to actually be available before they\u2019re making any sort of decisions,\u201d Volek said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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