{"id":3846,"date":"2024-09-06T13:35:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2024-09-07T09:12:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T16:12:53","slug":"wow-an-honest-story-about-americans-wanting-to-move-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/09\/06\/wow-an-honest-story-about-americans-wanting-to-move-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! An honest story about Americans wanting to move abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Truth is, it is hard, difficult and unlikely for most Americans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Generally speaking, most people live abroad because of a job or remote <strong>work<\/strong>, <strong>school<\/strong>, a path to <strong>residency or citizenship through a relative<\/strong>, or <strong>personal wealth<\/strong>. Absent those scenarios, an American\u2019s access to a new life in a different country narrows considerably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/06\/realestate\/moving-abroad-americans-guide.html\">Want to Move Abroad? Here Are Five Ways to Do It. &#8211; The New York Times (nytimes.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, if you want to move abroad you most likely will need either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a study\/education visa for study abroad<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a work visa due to a job, or an internal international company transfer (you may also need to be under age 35 to 55 as some countries restrict immigrants to younger ages)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relatives: marry a foreign citizen (not a guarantee of residency but smooths the process)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relatives: have right-of-descent ancestry (your parent, or in some countries, grandparent or great-grandparent was a citizen which entitles you to citizenship or residency, possibly with other qualifications), or you have prior dual-citizenship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>have wealth, make a very large investment, and obtain a residency visa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you don&#8217;t fit into the above, qualifying for residency will be difficult or impossible (in most countries &#8211; but there are exceptions)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are not in those categories, with a few exceptions, getting a residency visa, let alone citizenship, is difficult or impossible. Digital nomad visas, now available in some countries to those who are remote workers or self-employed, can open a path to an extended stay &#8211; but not permanent residency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023-2024, I reviewed nearly 250 stories about Americans moving abroad, and the largest single category for visas (about 1\/3d) was &#8220;marriage&#8221; and 90% of those were young American women who married a foreigner. If you don&#8217;t fall into the above categories &#8211; good luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, a hat top to Rhonda Kaysen of the NY Times for writing an accurate article about moving abroad &#8211; this being a topic that most of the media does with fluffy content mill quality (see Business Insider for that nonsense!). A good and accurate article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An honest look at Americans trying to get residency abroad &#8211; if you are not in one of the special groups, it&#8217;s difficult or even impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globally-experienced","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","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=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}