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EU Routes With No Residency Requirement (2026)

Can't (or won't) move yet? These EU routes ask for effectively no physical presence — citizenship by descent, or a golden visa with no minimum stay.

  1. 1

    Greece

    Golden Visa · leads to residency

    0 days / year
    Presence
  2. 2

    Italy

    Citizenship by descent · leads to citizenship

    0 days / year
    Presence
  3. 3

    Ireland

    Citizenship by descent · leads to citizenship

    0 days / year
    Presence

Ranked by presence from our sourced dataset. Figures are cited on each program's page with the date last verified.

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