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Consider these 5 steps in creating your own ‘Plan B’

In May 1788, Thomas Jefferson wrote one of the most prescient statements of his career: “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” Jefferson was living in Paris at the time serving as the Minister to France at a time when the United States was still

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Questions: renouncing US citizenship, postal mail for PTs

June 18, 2010 Madrid, Spain Long haul flights from South America generally tend to leave in the evening, usually between 7pm and 1am. The airlines do this so that you arrive first thing in the morning and can catch any connecting flight you may need… which is nice for travelers. The flight schedule

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Obtaining a Brazilian passport

June 16, 2010 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *** Today’s content is for subscriber’s only. If you’d like to receive a copy of this letter, make sure you sign up for Notes from the Field.

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Not as advertised

May 27, 2010 Chicago, IL, USA Uruguay is one of the countries that generally receives a lot of praise and positive commentary in the expatriate blogosphere. It’s often referred to as the “Switzerland of South America,” or compared directly to Paris… probably by people who have been to neither Switzerland nor Paris. The

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Is Canada an option for you?

May 26, 2010 Chicago, IL, USA If you’re shopping around for a tier 1, first world second citizenship, you might find a solution in Canada (unless of course you’re a native Canadian). In my view, Canada offers two key advantages. First, a Canadian passport is an incredibly valuable travel document– Canadians are generally

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Shortcut to a second passport

Are you Jewish? Do you want to be? If so, you’re entitled to an Israeli passport. In Israel, the “Law of Return” provides means for all Jews, and individuals of Jewish ancestry, to acquire Israeli residency and citizenship. Israeli law defines Jewish ancestry as having at least one Jewish parent or grandparent. In

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Getting scammed on a second passport

April 27, 2010 St. Michaels, Maryland, USA Yesterday I told you about the official way to go about obtaining residency and citizenship in the Dominican Republic– essentially, it takes about four years from start to finish until you receive your passport, though you may be expedited for investing $200,000 in the local economy.

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Acquiring Citizenship in the Dominican Republic

April 26, 2010 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic For most people, there are really only three reasons for going to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: The first is to transit to some other, ‘nice’, part of the country. The second is for sex tourism, which is in incalculable abundance here for both men and women.

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The best second passports if you’re interested in Asia

March 25, 2010 Tokyo, Japan About 20-years ago, many of the world’s sovereign nations started down an interesting path.  Region by region, governments formed supranational free trade blocs in order to facilitate economic growth. Supranational organizations were nothing new… from the failed League of Nations after the Great War to the UN and

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Questions: Seychelles, GoldMoney.com, Italian passport, Thai hospitals

March 12, 2010 Pattaya, Thailand Greetings once again from the land of smiles. First of all, I really appreciate all the responses after yesterday’s letter in which I announced that I will be speaking at the upcoming Casey Research Crisis and Opportunity Summit. I’m really looking forward to meeting with so many of

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Second passports and citizenship

February 23, 2010 Pattaya, Thailand Throughout our conversations, we have routinely discussed the importance of planting multiple flags. If you live, work, bank, invest, own a business, and hold your assets in the same country of your citizenship, you are putting all of your eggs in one basket, and once that basket heads

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In Thailand, they sell T-shirts at the revolution

February 22, 2010 Pattaya, Thailand I was in the back of a black sedan on Friday morning speeding along Highway 7 from Pattaya to Bangkok when my driver’s phone rang. He picked up, jabbered for a few seconds, and then said to me: “Sir, my friend call me from Bangkok; he say big

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