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Category: Citizenship

15 Dec
VOTE HERE SIGN placed on the walkway to a neighborhood polling place, as seen on election day in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

What You Need to Know About Voting From Abroad

“Will you vote in U.S. elections if you retire to Portugal?” asked every friend and family member after we announced that Jeff and I planned to move overseas. Our simple answer was, “Yes.” The longer answer was, “Yes. We’re not giving up our citizenship, just residency in the U.S.” Being able to vote from Portugal, […]

08 Dec
Santo Antonio town, Principe

A Sub-$100K Second Passport

In September 2025, São Tomé & Príncipe—a little-known island state with historic ties to Portugal—launched what is currently the most competitively priced Citizenship By Investment (CBI) program in the world. With approvals projected in six to eight weeks and a sub $100,000 investment threshold, the São Tomé CBI has positioned itself as the fastest, most […]

04 Sep
heroes national pantheon at asuncion, paraguay

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 […]

14 Aug

How Many Citizenships Can You Have

How many citizenships can one person have at the same time? This is a question I often get at events like my Offshore Wealth Summit. I’ve done various calculations over the years. Being born with multiple citizenships is the easiest way to get them… and also the least likely for most people. Our son was [...]
21 Jul
15th-century Bunratty castle in Co. Clare, Ireland

A Second Citizenship Blunder

My family and I moved from the United States to Ireland many years ago for personal and business reasons. At the time, I hadn’t even considered the concept of obtaining a second citizenship. In fact, it wasn’t until after my son Jackson was born that the idea of a second citizenship crossed my mind. Jackson [...]
07 Apr
AdobeStock/monticellllo

Italian Blood, Spanish Gold, And One Lone Certainty

The Kingdom of Italy was created on March 17, 1861, and up until a few days ago anyone who could prove they had an Italian ancestor dating from that auspicious day or later could lay claim to Italian citizenship. The number of people eligible under those rules was estimated to be between 60 and 80 […]

02 Dec
Cowboy on Montana ridge at first light,mountain background.

The Spirit Of Adventure

Americans used to be the great movers of the world. Think of the pioneers who settled the West… traveling thousands of miles with nothing just to find a place where they could truly live free, far from the Old World governments that kept them down… looking for new opportunities on new lands because opportunities had [...]
07 Oct
Park with monument Vasco Nunez de Balboa in Panama City, Panama

5 Residency Options In Panama

You know I’ve been bullish on Panama for years. Long-term, Panama will be one of the main global business hubs, competing with Singapore and Dubai… All in all, Panama is a country where you should consider “planting a flag.” Panama uses the U.S. dollar, so you won’t get any currency diversification, but for many people [...]
11 Jul
Karyatides statues, Erehtheio, on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece

Do Europe’s Golden Visas Make Sense?

Recently, a reader wrote to me to ask whether she should buy property in Greece to qualify for residency under its golden visa program. She was considering the golden visa because she wanted more time in the Schengen Area than her U.S. passport allows (90 days in any 180-day period), but she had questions because [...]
28 Mar
Reine, Lofoten, Norway. The village of Reine under a sunny, blue sky, with the typical rorbu houses.

Where Is The Best Place To Escape To In A Crisis?

The existence of so many independent “nation states” across the world… “countries” the way we think of them today… is a relatively new phenomenon in history. The idea that every ethnic or social group should have its own independent national government and geographical homeland… this idea has been very successful in the last century. But [...]