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Re:U.S. Expats Balk at Tax Law: American Citizen Renunciatio... by primitur on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @03:39AM (#6204462)
Australia/New Zealand are pretty attractive, citizenship-wise. As an Australian, I get the 'reciprocal' treatment - i.e., we will treat you as you treat our citizens, and since thats pretty good right now (Australia lets many European citizens in for a working-visa, two years on average), this means I can move around most of the western world without too much fuss.

I cringe at the hassle my American friends have to go through whenever they travel through a densely-packaged country region such as Europe .. whereas we Australians seem to get treated pretty well.

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Re:U.S. Expats Balk at Tax Law: American Citizen Renunciatio... by mixmixmix on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @03:54AM (#6204506)
"I cringe at the hassle my American friends have to go through whenever they travel through a densely-packaged country region such as Europe"

As an American citizen who's been to over 60 countries and as someone who's currently traveling through Europe, I've been treated with nothing but warmth and welcoming attitude by immigration (and other) officials.

Never had a single issue anywhere.

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Re:U.S. Expats Balk at Tax Law: American Citizen Renunciatio... by 616c on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @05:55AM (#6204828)
What are their requirements? I remember hearing about Wozniak but I never checked. I should do that soon.
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Re:U.S. Expats Balk at Tax Law: American Citizen Renunciatio... by lancewiggs on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @08:45AM (#6205320)
NZ has a simple immigration points system.(1)

We need people and it's awesome here, so come on over. It's even easier to travel on a NZ passport than the Australian one - we offend nobody. As a bonus we hang out in the top 3 places in the world for the World Bank's Doing Business survey and Transparency International's (least) corruption index.

(1) https://www.immigration.govt.nz/pointsindicator/ http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/stream/work/workperm....

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Re:U.S. Expats Balk at Tax Law: American Citizen Renunciatio... by ajtaylor on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @08:45AM (#6205321)
For Australia, the easiest path IMHO is a 457 visa => Permanent Residency after 2 years => citizenship after 1-2 years as a PR. They definitely are pretty generous. I'm working on the paperwork for my PR now.
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Re:U.S. Expats Balk at Tax Law: American Citizen Renunciatio... by jacques_chester on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @01:30AM (#6210047)
Like NZ, we have a points system. Young, highly qualified professionals can get in much easier.
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