{"id":77403,"date":"2026-02-18T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/wealthy-americans-top-golden-visa-surge-in-new-zealand-and-applications-from-china-double\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:59:49","slug":"wealthy-americans-top-golden-visa-surge-in-new-zealand-and-applications-from-china-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wealthy-americans-top-golden-visa-surge-in-new-zealand-and-applications-from-china-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealthy Americans top \u2018golden visa\u2019 surge in New Zealand and applications from China double"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4dfb9ea1978b0a668051201ab47d7d70df95abd2\/240_0_3426_2742\/master\/3426.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=2dadac3717cc38cb569cb6d1541798c9\" alt=\"Wealthy Americans top \u2018golden visa\u2019 surge in New Zealand and applications from China double\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Wealthy Americans top \u2018golden visa\u2019 surge in New Zealand and applications from China double<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">US family who were 100th to be granted residency under investor scheme say they want to give back to \u2018amazing\u2019 New ZealandWealthy Americans are dominating applications for New Zealand\u2019s \u201cgolden visa\u201d, driven by a love for the country\u2019s natural beauty and entrepreneurial spirit, as well a desire to escape Trump\u2019s administration.New rules for the Active Investor Plus visa came into effect in April 2025, lowering investment thresholds, removing English-language requirements and cutting the amount of time applicants must spend in the country to establish residency from three years to three weeks. Successful applicants can only purchase homes in New Zealand worth more than $5m. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/18\/new-zealand-golden-visa-applications-america-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Wealthy Americans top \u2018golden visa\u2019 surge in New Zealand and applications from China double US family who were 100th to be granted residency under investor scheme say they want to give back to \u2018amazing\u2019 New ZealandWealthy Americans are dominating applications for New Zealand\u2019s \u201cgolden visa\u201d, driven by a love for the country\u2019s natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}