Turkey's Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program offers a strategic 'Plan B' passport option for individuals seeking to diversify their citizenship portfolio, particularly for those from weaker passport countries or Western citizens seeking to escape surveillance states. Once Turkish citizenship is obtained, holders gain access to Uruguay's permanent residency program, which requires minimal physical presence (one visit every three years) and offers a fast-track citizenship pathway (3 years for couples, 5 years for individuals). Uruguay provides one of the world's strongest passports with extensive Latin American mobility and a 10-year tax holiday for residents who spend 60 days annually or invest $500,000 in property. This Turkey-Uruguay combination creates a layered security strategy where Turkey serves as a backup jurisdiction while Uruguay functions as the primary long-term destination, offering both geographic diversification and significant tax advantages.
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Now Turkey has access to Paraguay and Uruguay in addition to other countries but these are strategically very important and narrowing down on specifically Uruguay. Let's say you come from a weaker country nationality or let's say you're a US citizen and as I said you want to strike a US or whichever other country citizen a western country citizen and you want to strike an interim passport or a second passport and you get the Turkish CBI through property purchase and we specialize we have three specialized highly specialized and great attorneys who speak fluent English who manage the process end to end with an excellent track record of approvals you can start your Turkish citizenship you can get the Turkey passport. It's a solid diversified option in itself and Aragon is saying that in future there's a chance that they might make that a territorial system with its own tax holiday for 17 to 20 years. It's still up in the air. We can't rely on that until they actually publish it. But there's a good chance that could see the light of day. We got to wait and watch and I'll be updating you. If you are subscribed to the channel, you would be the first one to be notified of any changes anywhere, not just not just Turkey, across any program. So, please do me a favor, turn on that subscription so you stay notified. So, once you get the Turkish passport in place, you have an excellent plan B diversified jurisdiction to secure yourself if hits the fan. You can survive in Turkey.
A lot of people go to Turkey, set up shop, but you don't have to do that.
just keep the passport and if things go wrong you know you are headed to Turkey you're secure inside your family is secured inside Turkey and what Turkey does is opens up the gates to Uruguay then you strike then you land get Uruguay secured get the permanent residency in place do the 3 years on your Turkish passport in Uruguay 6 months each year let's call it 18 months let's not say 3 years let's call it 18 months of physical presence in Uruguay and then you strike that nationality. So you have Turkey as a backup and then Urukquai as your plan A. So if you have are coming from a plan C country, you know, let's say your passport is super weak like Pakistan, Nigeria or any other country with a weak passport, then obviously Turkey is a good upgrade.
You're getting into a plan B situation now. And then with Uruguay, you quickly slip into a plan A situation. So you have the C, B and A going in reverse order. But if you are a western citizen, let's say you're coming from the US, uh France, Germany, you have a heavy surveillance state uh at home in your case and you think uh you know you want to escape that, but you don't want to use your home country passport. You don't like the foundation, you don't like the platform, that is where you get the turkey in the mix and you have that plan B security. is you're jumping from plan A, getting your plan B, and then you're creating another plan A, your your original plan A serves a different purpose. Maybe you want to get rid of it. We don't know. But you do then have a genuine plan A to go to, and then you obviously have your plan B. So I do see Turkey climbing up the ladder, especially if that territorial regime comes into play. Turkey task force CBI becomes important. But let's say even otherwise if Uruguay is in the mix then Turkey could be an interesting play not just for powerful passport holders but also for weaker passport holders >> you know a lot of people is uh coming to specialist I will say a lot of um it's more family oriented um but especially from Europe uh they are >> I I always listen the word plan B you know they want UI as a plan B. Yeah.
>> Um and they come and and comes the grandpa and the son and of course the the babies the the the the under 18 know but they come with the parents but they don't do the process. Um but yeah, it's um a lot of people is lately is coming to to your way >> to strike a direct permanent residency in Uruguay. And this residency is the best permanent residency in the world because it has literally next to zero physical presence. You need to turn up once in every 3 years and you can maintain this permanent residency. We will discuss the pathway to citizenship in the second half. But >> you can apply for citizenship and the process takes around 6 months to one year to get the passport. But you need to >> Wow. Wow. So that's that's how fast it is. 6 months to 12 years.
>> Yes. But >> but this is an excellent passport. One of the strongest passports in the world.
And there's an additional advantage.
It's a Mercur citizenship. So you can actually settle in other countries like Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay itself. So you have a lot of mobility and freedom to live wherever you want within the Latin region. But outside the Latin region, it pretty much has access to all the most of the important countries. So it's but obviously non-western passport, a non-western citizenship. And what's the fastest that you can strike the citizenship in this country? The answer is 3 years. In just 3 years, you can strike a citizenship in Uruguay. This can cover a lot of people.
And for the ones who aren't able to secure this in 3 years, there's a normal 5-year pathway. As I said in the second half, I'm going to cover all the details. Now, why Urokai? The first reason it's a safe country. It's it's relatively has a big Englishspeaking expat population and a local population.
So of course this is a huge advantage for most people entering Uruguay from outside. In this evidence there's tremendous this huge heavy demand for the Uruguay permanent residency and the calendar the immigration calendar now is on a backlog. When we started talking about this, the wait times were 15 days, 20 days to get your appointment. But that has now changed. And before this program closes, a lot of nationalities are trying to grab the require permanent residency. Why is this number one not because of the demand only? This is number one because it is a safe country, a politically stable country. You don't hear nonsense out of Uruguay. It borders Argentina. So once you get your Ourqua nationality, you have an opportunity next door so you can expand on your portfolio. It has access to beaches.
It's one of the safest countries in the world. Is the safest country in Latin America. Immigration is friendly and that passport is rock solid. There's extreme buzz and the buzz is about now being able to qualify using job salary, active salary. And you mentioned 1,200 USD is sort of the threshold that people should show. Uh I wanted to hear more.
In addition to that, it does just not stop there. You also have tax advantages like tax holidays, the territorial schemes and different things that you can exclude from from your income, which makes it a stable and an excellent choice for anyone asking for pretty much anything out of countries. This is huge.
They invest 500k. Okay. Let's say they buy a property of 500K in Uruguay, then they become a tax resident without physical presence.
>> No, no, it's No, it's 60 days plus 500K or live just 6 months per year.
>> Oh, I see. 6 months per year automatically because they're physically living there for more than half the time. Then they become a tax resident or then a combination of 60 days and 500k in the country and they pay zero taxes in Uruguay for the next 10 years. So like a tax holiday. It's a tax holiday that was the word that I wanted to say tax holiday >> friendly country so you would be accepted integration would be easy now there's huge demand from a separate section of people who are not western citizens who are not Americans or Canadians there's two segments one is people who don't have a strong passport or let's call it people who have a passport with no visaree access to Uruguay can you still get this yes you can get it I'm going explained that there's a second segment of these western citizens now asking for orkai on a second passport. They don't want uh the orai to know your home country citizenship or let's you want to skip your home country citizenship disclosure legally and you want to use an alternative identity. Maybe there could be a legal reason for this. Maybe you want to get rid of your home country citizenship in future. Or you want to disassociate that from your portfolio. You want to keep that separate. You want to create a clean neat portfolio. All done legally.
And you're looking to get Uroay on a fresh nationality. Then there is an option. And this option caters to both segments equally. So people who don't have access currently to Urukuay can obtain the permanent residency and people who don't want to use their strong passport to get Uroku want to use an alternate passport to get Urukquai the same option caters to those individuals as well. And before I get to this option what are the what is the flexibility with Uroku? How does that lead to citizenship? Does it lead to citizenship? Yes, it leads to citizenship. What is the flexibility?
How much connection you need? So as I said earlier to maintain the permanent residency you turn up once in every 3 years renew it on time you're good to go you have access to this beautiful country it's in your back pocket maybe you're using it for taxation uh you have it secured now if you are looking to strike a citizenship you want to convert this into citizenship in 3 years then you would have to have your spouse on the application because couples can naturalize in three a single individual would have to wait for five so let's say you're a couple, you're moving there with your spouse, you wait for 3 years and you apply for citizenship. For physical presence, you need connections to the country. If you're doing the citizenship, what is the most important thing required? The most important thing required is that you stay in Oruroquay for at least half the time. Let's say one day more than 6 months, 183 days, you strike tax residency. It could function as a territorial system. You could have tax holiday in place if you structure this correctly. And that's where our team specializes in all of that. Not just the residency, but your structuring. And none of this is immigration advice. If you're looking to strike this done correctly, you can always click the link, book a call, we can have a quick chat first, get you started with your residency needs, and then look at other things that you're trying to accomplish through this residency. But for citizenship, you do the normal 6 months plus 1 day. They do it for 3 years. All you're investing in is 18 months. one of the strongest nationalities that you can get in the world. Now let's come to the segment where how do you strike this without the visa free access and this is where a passport a CBI passport which is almost free if you structure that one correctly. I'm talking about the Turkish CBI. Please make sure you're subscribed and catch you in the next
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