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Immigration for laymen

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I’ll share my knowledge & experiences regarding immigration with the public, specifically to gain insight as the average individual into traveling and/or moving abroad with all the rules, regulations and so on.

If you want to travel or move abroad, where do you begin? That is the question. First off, you need to lay everything out for yourself; where do you want to go? Below more information you need to ask yourself consequently.

  • Do I have all the documentation needed for traveling? You’ll need a passport, be vaccinated for all the default contagious diseases e.g. yellow fever and so on.
  • For moving, you’ll need to look into the options for doing so in regards to the country you’ve got your sights set on- Simple googling or similar will do the trick.

For people moving from the first world to anywhere else, the above instructions will be enough in general, due to the fact that moving from one 1st world nation to another is comparably easier; visa-free travel throughout is the norm & moving in the long term is more doable overall.

For everyone else (2nd & 3rd world) moving to the first world, options by default are as follows:

  • Moving as a caretaker e.g. for the elderly or sick (nurse for example)
  • Through spousal sponsorship, meaning getting or being married to someone from the 1st world
  • Through family sponsorship, meaning blood relatives that possess 1st world nationality

* For those unfamiliar with what the 1st, 2nd & 3rd world are- the 1st is the western world (e.g. USA, Canada, or EU member states), the 2nd is loosely Eastern Europe & certain countries in Asia, the 3rd is the rest of the world (e.g. countries in Africa, South-America etc.). They are signified by overall quality of life and standard. Google which one your country belongs to if you don’t know.

* Let it be noted there are other options, but those are impractical and/or unrealistic to attain for the average global citizen. For example investorship or skilled worker programs; the former requires funds (e.g. $200.000) that would take the average person lifetimes to accumulate, see here for example: https://www.henleyglobal.com/countries & the second requires exceptional work experience in a field or line of work & onboarding, so being hired by a company located in the country you want to move to- chances are slim to none, relatively speaking. The sheer difficulty speaks for itself, take for example that of the Netherlands: https://ind.nl/en/residence-permits/work/highly-skilled-migrant

These websites and sources are metaphorically invaluable:

Be advised that there is bound to be a lot of legwork involved; you’ll have to get documents in order, go to your country’s government offices for legalizations and/or notaries for similar etc.

Once you’ve taken everything mentioned up to this point, what are the step-by-step instructions for helping yourself?

  1.  Contact any of the aforementioned immigration companies
  2.  Tell them about yourself, e.g. your occupation (the type of work you do), material assets (if you own or rent anything such as a house) & anything personal or overall that might be relevant; your goals in relation to you moving, reasons why, your budget (so what you can afford) etc.
  3.  They’ll tell you what the options are and related.
  • I also strongly request anyone to seek alternatives to applying for (certain) visas for this reason, or do all you can to maximize your chances.

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See here for immigration-related updates:

* When hovering over a country that has a Visa requirement, an “apply now” option will appear that you can click on to be redirected to the organization in question for requesting the aforementioned. See example below (red box to the right shows it):

– Discussing CBI and RBI programs –

I’ll be discussing citizenship and residency by investment programs; let me start off by saying that the average person has no idea that these programs even exist. The people that know that these programs exist are immigration consultants, immigration lawyers and so on. What it is in a nutshell is attaining citizenship or residency in a country different than your own, and as stated before it is through mainly investment. This can be anything, from purchasing real estate to investing in a company but these two are the most common ones. These programs are also called “Golden Visas” or are more commonly known as such. They are real and legit, yes – but I still strongly, strongly have to advise people to urge on the side of caution and that is for the following reasons:

  • Understand that immigration consultants bluntly put only want your money or mainly that; their whole job is to “sprinkle sugar on s*** and tell you it’s cotton candy” in a nutshell. They will tell you what these programs are in the way of benefits but they will so conveniently leave out the drawbacks because they know that if even one of these drawbacks does not sound right to you, you will opt out.
  • The governments of the countries that have- and maintain these programs or host them, have a similar mentality as the aforementioned entities; they, in a nutshell, want your money but they do not want you per se in the country – it’s hypocritical, I know. But this is still the reality of things. Understand that this is a figure of speech and it’s not necessarily meant literally and of course things are more complicated than that. But my point is that more often than not, these countries do not have anything in the way of a safety net. So if something goes awry, the government isn’t going to step in and tell you “we’ve got you covered, don’t worry about it” – “you are a valuable investor and you contribute to the economy of our nation, so we are looking out for you”. Quite the opposite; they’re going to argue that your transaction is purely a commercial or private one and therefore you should take things up with the establishment, organization or business you invested in etc. There generally speaking isn’t anything in the way of a contingency plan for investors.

So if you’re someone that has an interest in any of these programs, what would I recommend to you? DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE – I cannot begin to overstate this. If you for example are planning to buy real estate in a country with the benefit being enrollment in this program, go over everything, and go over everything down to the last letter. literally and figuratively. Look at everything from top to bottom, the property you’re buying, the company you’re buying it from, how long the company has existed, who runs or manages the company, how long they’ve been in business, what they have in the way of reviews, check to see which other countries offer the same program under the same conditions, set the time aside to do some thorough amateur investigating in the form of googling and going to multiple immigration consultants or lawyer to get multiple opinions. Check all the conditions of these programs, especially the negativities or the downsides – because like I said, you’ll immediately be given the benefit but the drawbacks will deliberately be obscured from you, so you need to find that out yourself using the same modus operandi I already penned. And then you can make up your mind. Needless to say, also use common sense and logic. Things that can happen to you in the form of disasters:

. The property you bought is not legitimate, in the sense that it does not belong to the person you bought it from or the property in question was constructed with “dirty money”.

. If you invested in an establishment, it might be a “shell company” that is not legitimate and exists only for illegitimate purposes, obviously.

If you agree to any of these aforementioned, and you have nothing to fall back on, for example the payment you made does not have anything in the way of options for a dispute, the way that you have for example with PayPal or credit and debit cards, then guess what? You’re screwed. Any kind of legal action you undertake will have to happen remotely because in general you will not have access to that country, and even if you do and you can be there physically, you still got your back against the wall because of the sheer amount of work and effort, not to mention money you will have to invest into fighting a costly legal battle that you seriously stand a chance of losing, not to mention that these type of court cases usually / generally drag on for years. In that case you’ll be double screwed.

So that’s pretty much it. As you can see or tell, if you’re the average person, even if you have the money (these programs are usually quite expensive e.g. “House or car levels of money”) it is strongly ill-advised. It’s a bureaucratic, judicial, not to mention financial nightmare waiting to happen. ONLY do so if you REALLY know what you’re doing, and you have the balls for it – literally and figuratively. DO NOT invest anything you cannot afford to lose.

Examples of where things went belly-up:

– For Occultists & Magicians –

For practitioners, here are some entities and/or techniques that specialize in things relating to foreign travel & immigration:

The Fifth Pentacle of the Sun mentioned in this workbook.

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