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About 28% of all American expats living abroad live in Mexico. A big reason for this is that Mexico has one of the world’s easiest immigration programs. The process begins at the Mexican consulate in your home country. Amounts vary consulate to consulate, but qualifying for temporary residency through economic solvency requires an average minimum […]
The first time I ever recommended Americans think about retiring overseas was back in 1985. When I began making these kinds of suggestions, I was sometimes met with suspicion… sometimes ignored… now and then even attacked as part of the lunatic fringe. The good news is that today the idea of retiring outside the country […]
At a meeting in London a little while ago, I was among dozens of expats from all around the world. Many took offense to being described that way… to being called “expats.” They found the term derogatory; however, not for the reason people typically object to the word. Some among the group in London who’d […]
Other than for random, one-off real estate investment opportunities, Ecuador has never been high on my list of top offshore destinations. This country is more a great budget lifestyle choice than a place to think about planting an offshore flag… with one important and notable exception. Obtaining Ecuadorean citizenship is notably easy… as long as […]
Panama has long been recognized as one of the best—and easiest—options in the world for a backup residency. When former President Ricardo Martinelli created the Friendly Nations program in 2012, any citizen of one of the countries on that list could get residency in Panama by opening a local bank account with just a US$5,000 […]
Before the global pandemic, an American passport got you into 184 countries. It was one of the best travel documents you could carry. At the height of the pandemic, U.S. passport-holders were permitted entry to but 29 countries. Some 166 countries had decided to bar entry to Americans, fearing those Americans might carry the coronavirus […]
I traveled to the Dominican Republic for the first time in 2005. I made the trip with a straight-up agenda: I was scouting for property deals. Residency and naturalization opportunities in this country weren’t on my radar at that time. I read about these later. What I read sounded too good to be true… and, […]
The Internet is perhaps our world’s greatest source of information… current and outdated… accurate and made-up. That’s why I don’t consider Google my friend. Instead, I count on the network of contacts I’ve developed around the world over the past two-and-a-half decades for
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