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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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