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European Union citizenship
By: Aliph Date: April 26, 2019, 10:36 am
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At last I found a solution for SHL who would like to acquire
German citizenship. As everybody knows Germany is a leading
member of the European Union.
So is Cyprus! Still european but so close to the Middle East.
One can buy a Cypriot citizenship for his whole family (with EU
citizenship) if he invests two million euros in the country.
I do not know how many dollars SHL has in the bank, sadly I
guess not as many. The Euro is quite high these days, despite
Brexit.
HTML https://cyprus-alliance.com/immigration/citizenship?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq7y7zaft4QIVjY8YCh10eQ53EAEYASAAEgLKE_D_BwE
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Re: European Union citizenship
By: SHL Date: April 26, 2019, 1:25 pm
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If you have that kind of money, getting a visa to live in the EU
should not be a problem for anyone. Most countries (and the US
included) have what are called „investors visas“. So, if you‘ve
got enough money (a few million probably) you can just hand a
local immigration law firm a $50,000€ retainer and say „get me a
visa“ and they‘ll figure out a way to make it happen, if you
have the capital to invest. They likely would say invest a
million in starting any kind of business, hire 10 locals to work
for you, pay their benefits, minimum wage, and comply with the
labor laws and you‘ll get a visa. No country with any kind of
social welfare safety net wants only economic immigrants doing
jobs any local person could do. It‘s too risky and potentially
costly. But if you can prove you won‘t be burden on a country‘s
economy, they are normally ok with having you. Exceptions are,
of course, marriage to a citizen or asylum status. Immigration
law is highly complex everywhere in the world, but this is just
a general outline of what is likely to be true. Many countries,
like the US, probably have special visas for people with
celebrity status or some sort of notoriety, and most of those
people have high net worth anyway.
#Post#: 14761--------------------------------------------------
Re: European Union citizenship
By: Aliph Date: April 26, 2019, 2:57 pm
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Since I wrote that post, Google doesn’t stop to offer me
advertisements for buying a second citizenship through
investment. There are cheaper passports but who wants to live in
the Caribbean?
HTML http://secondpassport.me
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Re: European Union citizenship
By: SHL Date: April 26, 2019, 8:36 pm
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[quote author=Sofia link=topic=1002.msg14761#msg14761
date=1556308656]
Since I wrote that post, Google doesn’t stop to offer me
advertisements for buying a second citizenship through
investment. There are cheaper passports but who wants to live in
the Caribbean?
HTML http://secondpassport.me
[/quote]
Yeah, I‘ve known about those for a long time. Dominica as I
recall actually was selling citizenship for something like
$500,000? But, like you said, who wants to live in/on Dominica?
There are cheaper alternatives. I read somewhere that the
Dominican Republic was fairly easy to get a visa to live in
requiring only a few thousand dollars deposited to a local bank.
Paraguay used to have something like that too, a $3,000 bank
deposit for a residency visa and a 3 year track to citizenship
without requiring continuous residency or something? Yes, there
are those out-of-the-way places. Downside: you have to learn
Spanish (which might be an upside depending on if you want to
learn Spanish or already know it). Yeah, changing residence into
the Schengen/EU is not easy to do. Even immigrating to the US is
not that easy. Remember when they had that green-card lottery
thing going? That‘s all been done away with now. But, we do have
„sanctuary cities“ like San Francisco or Seattle (and there are
many more), where if you can get there, the local government
won‘t help the federal authorities in tracking you down and
deporting you if your immigration status is illegal. It doesn‘t
prevent the Feds from finding and deporting you, but helps
people sort of go underground.
There are various YouTube clips of a guy named O`Keefe who was a
former US Marine, who went to Holland and applied for political
asylum after burning his US Passport in the streets of Amsterdam
or The Hague or someplace, and being on TV. Then the US Embassy
just sent him another one. The Dutch put him on some
„fast-track“ asylum processing system to process his application
in like 10 days (it was like an auto-reject system), but he got
a well-known Dutch immigration and human rights lawyer to
represent him, I think for free, and then they put him on the
regular asylum system. Somehow the guy wound up getting Irish
citizenship, so the whole issue became moot, but then he ended
up living with his girlfriend in the Dominican Republic or
someplace like that. Weird story.
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Re: European Union citizenship
By: SHL Date: April 26, 2019, 9:14 pm
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Oh, and one other thing Sofia. You have to be careful of
websites like that one you linked to. I looked at it and it has
all the hallmarks of a scam. Big price tags on various
countries, like they were selling cars or something? If they
want personal information, that‘s a red flag. Or promise things
that are too good to be true, all for a fee. I have to block
probably 4 or 5 unwanted calls from solicitors each day trying
to sell something or scam me in some way. We don‘t have the
protections you may have in the EU (I know Germany does) that
protects you from unwanted solicitor calls. In the US it‘s open
season, with the only people not legally being allowed to cold
call people being lawyers, to my knowledge. The solicitor calls
in Germany still go on, but I doubt they are as numerous and
annoying as what we have to put up with.
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Re: European Union citizenship
By: Susan Date: April 27, 2019, 10:33 am
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Are you sure the U.S. visa lottery has been done away with? Are
you not talking about this?
HTML https://dvlottery.state.gov/
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Re: European Union citizenship
By: NealC Date: April 27, 2019, 11:31 am
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Steve's best hope for EU citizenship is if I adopt him after I
get my Italian citizenship. $500,000. USD -- not even Euros.
Hell of a bargain compared to Cyprus.
If you act now I will even let you keep your last name!
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Re: European Union citizenship
By: Truman Overby Date: April 27, 2019, 12:23 pm
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[quote author=Susan link=topic=1002.msg14770#msg14770
date=1556379221]
Are you sure the U.S. visa lottery has been done away with? Are
you not talking about this?
HTML https://dvlottery.state.gov/
[/quote]
I think this is the last year for it, Susan. Our wise president
saw the damage that it was doing to our nation. Thank God.
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Re: European Union citizenship
By: SHL Date: April 27, 2019, 3:51 pm
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[quote author=NealC link=topic=1002.msg14773#msg14773
date=1556382678]
Steve's best hope for EU citizenship is if I adopt him after I
get my Italian citizenship. $500,000. USD -- not even Euros.
Hell of a bargain compared to Cyprus.
If you act now I will even let you keep your last name!
[/quote]
Wow, Neal, what a bargain. $500,000.
I‘m sure I could figure out a way to get it for less than that.
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Re: European Union citizenship
By: SHL Date: April 27, 2019, 4:00 pm
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[quote author=Keep America Great!
link=topic=1002.msg14780#msg14780 date=1556385785]
[quote author=Susan link=topic=1002.msg14770#msg14770
date=1556379221]
Are you sure the U.S. visa lottery has been done away with? Are
you not talking about this?
HTML https://dvlottery.state.gov/
[/quote]
I think this is the last year for it, Susan. Our wise president
saw the damage that it was doing to our nation. Thank God.
[/quote]
Our „wise“ President? Like the one who said „We have to get to
the „oranges“ of the Mueller investigation, what‘s behind it,
the origin, you know, the „oranges“ behind it.“ The one who said
(twice in the same interview) that his father was born in
Germany, when his father was born in New York and it was his
grandfather who was born there? Or the one who wandered past
this own car to pick him up after getting off Air Force One, and
had to have an aid run up and turn him around to show him where
the car was (right in front of his eyes)?
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