Re:The New American Status Symbol? A Second Passport
by viraptor on Saturday August 22, 2020 @06:07PM
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It's still not that easy. Many citizenship-by-investment options are on a level of buying a very fancy house. Yes, those people are relatively rich, but not "surround yourself with English-speaking house-help" rich. If they want to move for the retirement, it may still be a hard social experience.
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Re:The New American Status Symbol? A Second Passport
by Mediterraneo10 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @06:30PM
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True. However, often affluent people using citizenship-by-investment programs in e.g. Malta, Greece or Bulgaria have no intention of ever actually living in that country. They simply want a passport of an EU country so that they can freely move to any other EU country, and in that other EU country they may already speak a local language or be confident of their ability to do most things in English.