Mexico City short-let cap freezes mid-cup

Spain's short-let inventory fell 12.4% in the year to November 2025, reaching 329,764 platform dwellings. About 52,000 listings came off in the six months when the national registration number and a neighbours'-committee veto right took effect together. Then the Tribunal Supremo voided the national registration number on constitutional grounds.

Every flat pulled off tourist platforms returns to the residential market. Spain showed the lever works at scale. The court ruling removes the central tool just as the data confirmed it was working. Read full version ↓

Indonesia's anti-corruption commission KPK extended Silmy Karim's pre-trial detention by 40 days on 22 June, pushing custody to late July. The Acting Director General of Immigration is also among the 18 held, leaving two of the three senior posts in the Directorate of Residence Permits empty or under investigation. No processing-continuity guidance has been published for the 346,000-plus foreign residents holding KITAS or KITAP permits.

Foreign residents whose KITAS or KITAP passed through the West Jakarta channel between 2022 and 2026 face a permit-provenance question: KPK alleges that channel was corrupt for four years. With the deputy minister dismissed, the acting Director General under arrest, and no replacement named, contested permit files have nowhere to escalate inside the directorate. Read full version ↓

South Africa's October 2024 Visa framework remains operative as of June 2026. The April 2026 White Paper named a remote-work Visa and points-based system, but Parliament must still pass enabling legislation before any element binds. Department of Home Affairs Directive 7/2026 extends lawful stay for pending applicants to end-June 2027.

For a nomad evaluating South Africa, the operative reference is the October 2024 rules, not the White Paper. The remote-work Visa category does not yet exist in law. Read full version ↓

Thailand's 60-day Visa-free window remains open as of 23 June. The cabinet approved cutting it to 30 days on 19 May, but the cut requires three Interior Ministry announcements published in the Royal Gazette (Thailand's official legal register) and only takes effect 15 days after that publication. Neither publication has appeared.

For travellers from the 93 countries that currently benefit, the 60-day window is still valid at every border. When the Gazette publication does appear, there will be a 15-day notice period before the lower allowance kicks in. Read full version ↓

Portugal's Agency for Integration, Migration and Asylum AIMA reported 525,000-plus files cleared as of 2 June 2026, with 473,000 positive outcomes. New D8 digital nomad visa applicants still wait about nine months for a first residency card.

Portugal's nationality law, promulgated in May 2026, starts the residency clock from card issuance. Portugal's revised nationality law, promulgated in May 2026, starts the residency clock from card issuance, not from application. Nine months of card delay before the clock begins pushes the practical naturalisation horizon to roughly 11 years from arrival for most nationalities. Read full version ↓

Italy launched fully digital document submission for Type C (short-stay Schengen) and Type D (national long-stay) visas from 1 June 2026. Biometric data collection still requires an in-person consulate appointment. Backlogs at high-volume consulates push total timelines for long-stay visas to several months.

The digitalisation removes the in-person document barrier but does not eliminate the consulate queue. Italy is the first large Schengen state to reach this point, though the end-to-end timeline for a nomad Visa applicant remains several months from document preparation to permit receipt. Read full version ↓