IMI Daily
Investment migration industry's trade publication and data platform, tracking residence-by-investment and digital nomad programmes globally.
IMI Daily reported in September 2026 that Greece received 3,086 golden-Visa applications in the first seven months of the year, 39% fewer than a year earlier, while the processing queue fell to 29,273 files.
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IMI Daily serves the investment migration industry as its specialist trade publication. Online since at least 2017, it covers residence-by-investment (golden visa) programmes, citizenship-by-investment schemes, digital nomad visas and cross-border mobility policy across more than 100 jurisdictions. It also offers market data, programme intelligence tools and a professional directory.
Its audience is immigration lawyers, wealth advisers, fund managers and wealthy individuals comparing residence options, not the general public. That readership shapes its coverage, which tracks income thresholds, application backlogs and statutory changes closely. Its editorial line broadly favours investment migration programmes.
IMI Daily covered Portugal's D8 nomad Visa and processing delays at the migration agency AIMA. It relayed lawyers' criticism of the backlog pledge after Portugal's Parliament voted on 3 April 2026 to extend the residency-to-citizenship requirement from five to ten years for most nationalities.
Its figures show investor demand falling
Figures that IMI Daily attributed to the Greek ministry counted 3,086 golden-Visa applications for January to July 2026, compared with 5,028 in the same months of 2025, a 39% drop. Pending files totalled 29,273, down from over 52,000 when 2025 began.
The data reached a wider audience on 5 September, when Greece kept new short-let registrations in central Athens frozen until the end of 2027. For IMI Daily, whose readers advise investors on residence options, the numbers are core programme intelligence: demand for Greece's investment route is falling while the queue of older applications shrinks.