<h1 class="entry-title">Category: Residency</h1>
05
Nov
Cash Flow Is Not An Excuse—How To Earn The Money You Need To Live Wherever You Want I decided in high school that I wanted an international life. Of course, I wouldn't have articulated it that way back then. I'm not sure that, back then, I even knew what “international” meant. What I did know [...]
01
Nov
How Trump Could Make My Grandchildren Stateless Turns out, my Monday missive on the opportunities presented by countries offering jus soli citizenship was timelier than I realized at the time. Within 24 hours of our publishing that essay, President Trump announced that he is considering issuing an executive order to eliminate jus soli in the United States. As I pointed out [...]
29
Oct
Serious Legacy Upside Kathleen and I were living in Ireland when our son Jackson was born. I wish we could take credit for being impressively strategic in our planning, but the truth is that Waterford just happened to be our home when Jackson arrived on the scene. You could say that this geographic happenstance turned [...]
18
Oct
Resident Of Nowhere? Full-time residency in another country or a backup residency just in case... These are two topics I address regularly in these dispatches, in my Simon Letter advisory service, and at conferences. But what about no residency? Discovering the world as a global nomad is an increasingly popular idea among the millennial crowd, but we olds [...]
20
Aug
Europe is comprised of 44 countries according to the U.N…. though I count 46… and, until the U.K. executes its exit, the EU includes 28. Among these I put Portugal at the top of the list for anyone looking for a place to live, to invest, or to formulate a Plan B in Europe. What’s […]
06
Aug
Putting yourself in the driver’s seat of your own future is all about understanding your options for action. Choices. It all comes down to choices. The challenge is that, once you’ve identified the going-offshore choices you’d like to pursue, following through on them isn’t as easy as making a quick phone call or filling out […]
12
Jul
As I reported last week, Kathleen and I need visas for China. We’ll be traveling to the country with our son in August to install him in his freshman dorm room at NYU Shanghai. The visa application process proved only mildly complicated. We’re in Europe and elsewhere until we leave for China, so we couldn’t apply […]
02
Jul
A well-traveled friend, Paul Terhorst, wrote a column for my Simon Letter advisory service a few months ago in which he explained that he no longer travels to countries that require him to get a visa in advance. Paul went on to make the point that these countries are hurting themselves financially by requiring these apply-in-advance visas of […]
17
May
This Is No Offshore Haven... So, Why Italy? Italy isn't an offshore haven. You have to be a resident in the country for 10 years before you can become naturalized... unless your grandparents were Italian... in which case you can get citizenship after 3 years of residency. The bureaucracy in Italy is legendary. Processes like [...]
14
May
If You Don't See The Opportunity In This Top Euro-Market, You Aren't Looking Hard Enough The question on many minds at last week's Live and Invest in Portugal Conference was whether the Lisbon real estate market is a bubble... or not. Prices in the Portuguese capital have pushed beyond 7,000 euros a square meter... In [...]
