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Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.

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As a New Zealander, I'd like to hope he 'did nothing' to get that citizenship, but I'm afraid it probably wasn't nothing.

many countries offer the Investment Visa option. Canada does, as do places like NZ:

> New Zealand offers the Active Investor Plus Visa, which requires a minimum investment of NZD $5 million for the Growth category or NZD $10 million for the Balanced category. This visa allows investors to live, work, and study in New Zealand, with pathways to permanent residency after maintaining the investment for the required period.

After 5 years of investment, the visa holders can apply for Permanent Resident status, and after 5 years of PR, citizenship.

Thiel buys 3 Hungry Jack's and creates an IT consultancy company + some land deals, then rides em to citizenship.

Yeah, but Peter Thiel skipped the line for his NZ citizenship:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/334094/us-billionaire-sp...

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