{"id":2964,"date":"2024-03-14T14:17:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T21:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2024-03-14T14:17:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T21:17:14","slug":"immigration-wealthy-seeking-2nd-passport-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/03\/14\/immigration-wealthy-seeking-2nd-passport-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration: Wealthy seeking 2nd passport options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>US citizens can enter 116 countries without a visa, 37 with a visa upon arrival, 21 with an eVisa, and 24 other countries require a visa. That&#8217;s not too surprising then, that<strong> Latitude reports that more Americans are seeking out a secondary passport\u2014demand has been on the rise in the last decade.<\/strong> According to\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/laurabegleybloom\/2022\/02\/24\/surprise-40-americans-might-be-able-to-claim-european-citizenship-and-a-second-passport-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/?sh=554af53c5b7d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">40% of Americans<\/a>\u00a0were eligible for dual citizenship in 2022. The publication also reported that getting a second citizenship is an expensive process, which is predominantly sought out by wealthy people.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/travel\/news\/more-americans-are-trying-to-get-a-second-passport-right-now\/ar-BB1jU19p?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=67a58a63d3274e749de2d1febaae91af&amp;ei=236\">More Americans Are Trying to Get a Second Passport Right Now (msn.com)<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have immigration privilege (the other 60% of Americans), for most, having wealth is necessary to get residency or citizenship in another country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to this graphic, the U.S. passport&#8217;s utility ranks 39th in the world now: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latitudeworld.com\/passport-index\/\">Passport Index &#8211; Latitude Residency &amp; Citizenship (latitudeworld.com)<\/a> &#8211; but since there is little difference between the top ranked countries, this ranking does not matter for most people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An immigration consulting firm says that demand for a 2nd passport has increased, among Americans, mostly from the wealthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globally-experienced","category-government-regulatory","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}