Chinese buyers were the engine of several European programs. Spain is closed. Portugal is a fund. Greece still sells property. EB-5 still has a rural queue. Dual citizenship is the quiet constraint.
If you hold a Chinese passport and you are used to hearing that Europe wants your property money, the market moved. Spain's investor visa closed on 3 April 2025. Portugal no longer takes a Lisbon apartment. Greece still does, at zone prices, with no Airbnb story. The United States still sells a green card through EB-5, with reserved rural visas that changed the China wait — not the tax bill.
The pain is the agent who is still selling 2019. A second pain is nationality law at home: China does not recognise ordinary dual citizenship. A Caribbean passport or a future Portuguese naturalisation is not a stamp collection. It is a legal collision you have to plan, not a surprise at a border.
Hidden gem: Greece's own nationality tables — we mapped them — have shown Chinese applicants as a core part of the program's history. That does not freeze prices. It explains why Attica appointments feel like a crowd.
Hidden gem two: a clean SOF file from China often needs more hops — company chops, SAFE-era transfers, gifts from parents — than a salaried European file. Build the source-of-funds page early. Do not let the first translation be the one AIMA or USCIS rejects.
What people on the internet are saying: Chinese-language agency sites still rank Portugal property. That is a 2023 corpse. English forums treat Greece as the remaining EU flat and EB-5 rural as the US door. Secondary, and closer to the statutes.
PRC nationality law does not recognise dual nationality in the ordinary way. Naturalising elsewhere is how people lose Chinese citizenship as a matter of Chinese law. OCI-style halfway houses are an India story, not a China story. If you need to keep a Chinese passport for family or business, buy residence, not CBI, and be honest about whether you will ever file for Portuguese or Greek naturalisation.
We are not Chinese counsel. We are telling you not to discover this after an oath.
Not as a new applicant. The property route closed in October 2023. The working route is a qualifying fund or a donation / jobs path.
Not as a new investor file. Timely pending files and existing cards only.
Chinese law does not recognise ordinary dual nationality. Treat CBI as a nationality decision, not a travel card.
Reserved rural / TEA categories changed the old unreserved backlog story. It is still expensive, still taxable worldwide, and still a US life. Read the rural-TEA extra and the denial page.
