Author: Lief Simon
Can Your Passport Be Taken Away?
If you’ve ever taken the time to read through your passport you’ll likely have noticed the following… “THIS PASSPORT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. IT MUST BE SURRENDERED UPON DEMAND MADE BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.” Now, it’s highly unlikely that the U.S. government should ever come to […]
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A 90k Island Home
In 1998 I signed up for a weeklong tour of Ireland. I planned to move there and buy either a bar or a country estate where I could host executive retreats. The trip would allow me to scout out the real estate options on offer around the country. The tour was run by Kathleen Peddicord […]
How A DNA Test Led To An Irish Passport
Baby Thomas James Delehanty arrived into the world in 1963 Arizona. A couple months later, having been adopted, he became John Edward Portmann. In 2019, he decided to research his family tree. Although he had long known he was adopted, he was shocked when the DNA test he took revealed his ancestry to be 100% […]
Easy Living In A Tax Haven
I’ve been warning people of the risks of hanging all your hopes on any one country… any one economy… or any one currency… for close on 30 years. If everything you own is tied to one country and things go awry there it will likely spell disaster. The smart move is diversification. I’ve established residency […]
Break Free
After years of setbacks, Europe’s Entry/Exit System (EES) finally launched yesterday, Oct. 12. The EES is an automated IT system that registers non-EU nationals traveling into and across the borders of 29 participating countries for short stays (defined as up to 90 days within any 180-day period). The system collects, records, and stores the information listed […]
3 Digital Nomad Hotspots
In 2020, Barbados introduced its Welcome Stamp, a visa which permits remote workers a one-year stay in the country provided they earn a foreign sourced annual income of at least $50,000. A few months later, Estonia introduced its digital nomad visa. At launch, the visa required holders to have a monthly foreign sourced income of […]
An Easy Second Residency And Citizenship Option
A search of “Paraguay history” in Google returns a list of questions people ask about Paraguay, including: “Which country is Paraguay located in?” Paraguay is its own country. It was wiped almost off the map by Brazil and Argentina during the Triple Alliance War of 1864 and 1870. (Uruguay was the third country in the […]