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FWIW Canada beats US out of the water on this one.

You can immediately become Canadian permanent resident by merely LOANING the province of Quebec $800K for five years. At current interest rates your actual monetary loss would be ~$80K.

You don't even need any qualifications. You don't even need to live in Quebec afterwards, you're free to move anywhere.

Oh and you can become Canadian citizen after three years of living in Canada, although because Canada does not reliably track people at its borders you can just fake passport stamps and other stuff. Recent revelations showed that people have been doing that at massive scale.