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For many people even millions of dollars wouldn't be sufficient.

Citizenship in many cases can't be bought. (No birth/id records, criminal past, unlucky country of birth, etc)

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With millions of dollars, you can buy convenience passports in e.g. Kazakhstan or Bulgaria.

Not the most powerful passports in the world, but enough to get visas for a lot of Western places.

You could get a substantially more useful passport and citizenship (Canadian) by investing $800K CAN in Quebec, not sure why you’d spend millions in Eastern Europe or Central Asia.

I may be wrong, but something tells me that Canada must be much more demanding on the provenance and destinations of these 800k$.

Indeed. However it can be bought in many other cases. Malta (full eu member) essentially sells citizenship for about 600keur.

"What price would you put on a passport? - BBC News" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-41013873.amp

"Everything you need to know about the Malta Passport" https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/malta-passport/amp/

Since Malta is part of shengen space, a Maltese passport is highly valuable.

The Maltese citizenship is very difficult to buy since a few years ago.

Several Caribbean Commonwealth nations are selling citizenship for around $300k USD. Typically this gives you visa on arrival access to western nations.

Looks like Dominica reduced costs to 100k or 200k in real estate.

Stowing away wouldn't give you citizenship either. The key objective here seems to be physical access to the target country (to then remain illegally) which should be doable on touristic visas?

Most embassies don't give tourist visas to the jobless poor, because they're aware of the high chance of abuse.

It can be with millions of dollars.

Citizenship may take longer but you can for sure buy investor visas

It depends where you want to go and what you want to spend. Peter Thiel circumvented a few of New Zealand’s rules in a very short time frame. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/revealed-how-peter-thiel...

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