Recent content by meze99

Technically you can have a GBP account offshore (for example Cyprus) but you will be limited to wire transfers (swift) only.

AML legislation makes it very difficult for anyone to open a UK bank account if you are not resident. The only banks which will allow this will require significant account balances such as HSBC, Citibank, etc. (I think at least 250k deposit). In Channel Islands/Isle of Man the amount maybe lower...

Hungary, Slovenia, Poland, etc where legal fees are reasonable. By the way it is always better to study your local market first (to find out what local fixers offer in your home country and then find local English speaking lawyers in EU countries they promote as the easiest/most affordable for a...

Listen to a podcast that is compatible with your language level or to your favourite songs in a target language. Input is very important as it makes you understand people without translating what they say in your head. To talk to a native speaker just call some restaurants, hotels, tourist info...

Many people have a naive idea that golden visas in EU are premium/fast track visas. In fact they are the most bureaucratic - way more documents needed/very long waiting times, in a nutshell they are an insult to common sense: there are plenty of options in EU to get a business residence permit...

1) France can't extradite its own citizens. So if US wanted him he would be arrested somewhere else. 2) A rumor is a rumor until it is officially denied, and it was officially denied by Macron, so it is likely that Macron administration ok'ed a high profile arrest. 3) It's not a backdoor only...

void, have you been to Mauritius? Seems like a nice place for any budget, especially if you are white (for some reason many locals genuinely like the white people there). You would need a car though, since public transportation there is bad as it is the case on most islands. Seychelles are not...

Pointless, as well as Caribbean/Vanuatu citizenship. The current international passport standards require all countries to print your Place of Birth information, so a guy born in Alabama with a Vanuatu/Nigeria/etc passport will be automatically considered a suspicious US citizen (that is if we...

In the Caribbean you are more likely to loose money than earn income from real estate since condo fees and insurance fees are crazy there (and don't forget hurricanes that can wipe out entire islands - happened recently to Barbuda). Stamp duty/title transfer/license fees and real estate agents...

You cannot deregister from a Portuguese tax system, you can only change your status there to non-resident when you spend less than 180 days per year in Portugal (or leave the country). Go to a tax office and ask them to change the address that is assigned to your NIF number (tax id number). As a...

If I'm not mistaken such a residence is called an asylum request (that's why millions of people from Latin America go to US via Mexico). There is also citizenship by descent which in some cases requires you to speak the language of your ancestors and always requires you to show documentary proof...

In a nutshell it's a scam for suckers who believe that Romanian authorities are unable to verify your ancestry documents via diplomatic channels and blindly trust a Ukranian Apostille stamp on them (which was stamped on another original document and then copied to a phony one) because Ukranian...

The guy who speaks in this video knows nothing about immigrants from Mozambique, they speak Portuguese at a native level, and he claims they don't know a word of Portuguese.

There are many Portuguese expats who became citizens. The main issue though is the age difference since you will have to marry a widow who is 30 or 40 years older than you (since nobody else is going to do that for 100k). Even though you are a EU citizen such a marriage with an older citizen...

As far as I know Cabo Verde is the only country that allows to submit a citizenship application immediately after marriage. Luxembourg requires you to be a legal resident before marriage (I'm not sure if any type of residence permit counts) otherwise you will have to wait for 3 years: "Acquiring...