{"id":695,"date":"2022-06-26T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=695"},"modified":"2022-06-30T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:29:08","slug":"many-americans-asking-how-to-move-to-another-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/06\/26\/many-americans-asking-how-to-move-to-another-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Americans asking how to move to another country."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/25\/after-the-ruling-americans-ask-google-how-to-move-to-canada\">After the ruling: Americans ask Google how to move to Canada<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within hours of a SCOTUS ruling this past week, Internet forums were inundated with thousands of posts asking about moving to another country. Nearly all the posts come from people who naively think it&#8217;s an easy process to move somewhere else, unaware of the difficulties of obtaining residency visas and the logistical challenges of a move abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many posts implied the poster thought it easy to move to Canada, the UK, somewhere in Europe, New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere &#8211; oblivious to the reality that they cannot do so. Obtaining a visa is hard, generally restricted to younger people with advanced skills and educations in specialized fields, or to those who can afford an &#8220;investment visa&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote a brief post on my other blog about the reality of moving abroad:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-coldstreams-business-and-tech wp-block-embed-coldstreams-business-and-tech\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LaPOFxdcUQ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/2022\/06\/25\/you-dont-like-how-the-country-is-going-can-you-just-pack-up-and-move-to-another-country\/\">You don&#8217;t like how the country is going: Can you just pack up and move to another country?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;You don&#8217;t like how the country is going: Can you just pack up and move to another country?&#8221; &#8212; Coldstreams\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/2022\/06\/25\/you-dont-like-how-the-country-is-going-can-you-just-pack-up-and-move-to-another-country\/embed\/#?secret=VBUl3aP1Jp#?secret=LaPOFxdcUQ\" data-secret=\"LaPOFxdcUQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit is me &#8211; photo of Castle de Haar, the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reddit has a forum group -> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IWantOut\/\">(1) I Want Out: Information for people who want to expatriate (reddit.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This forum has been inundated with posts from people asking how they can leave the U.S. and magically move to country X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some have dual citizenship or a spouse with dual citizenship and a move for them may be feasible.  Some have advanced degrees in engineering or health care subjects, and due to their young ages, may have options for work visas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But most have neither special situations nor advanced skills. Few bother to look up online and do a little research by themselves &#8211; instead, they immediately jump to the forums with naive questions such as &#8220;I work in this low skilled job, can I move to Norway? It looks very scenic there.&#8221; Please &#8211; do some research first. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the SCOTUS abortion ruling, online forums are filled with thousands of people asking about moving abroad, oblivious to the reality that obtaining a residency visa elsewhere ranges from very difficult to impossible for most people, in most countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}