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A common mobility asset portfolio some people of means ($2M+ net worth) pursue: —> Citizenship by descent in EUROPE. —> Citizenship by investment in the CARIBBEAN —> Low maintenance residency (by investment or income) leading to citizenship in Latin America Plus your first citizenship. Three citizenships + one residency, with the possibility of a 4th citizenship. #multiplecitizenship #freedomofmovement

The zap is not the territory.

Freedom of movement is so much more than counting up the number of countries a passport holder can travel to visa-free. Visa-free access is the laziest, lowest level metric that can be “measured” by anyone with access to wikipedia. That’s why it’s cited and focused-on so much by wannabe mobility experts and influencers. Raw quantity of visa-free access matters but not nearly as much as BS passport rankings would have you believe. Here are the elements of freedom of movement that matter more when evaluating a mobility asset: 1. Core residency rights 2. Satellite residency rights 3. Access to borderless zones (like schengen) 4. country springboarding opportunities 5. Sturdiness of the mobility asset (how easily can it/will it be taken away from the issuing country) 6. Visa-free access to the 7-10 countries that matter to you most. Those qualities are 👆 are messy, more challenging and can generally only be evaluated by someone who has real experience in getting citizenship and residencies AND understands the underlying laws and regs in play. #freedomofmovement #visafree

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I got #dualcitizenship and #freedomofmovement content for days, and I’m really enjoying nostr. I just need to know what you want from the menu. What places, topics, issues, questions in global mobility are you most interested in? Do me a solid and drop it in the comments. 👇

According to nostr:stats, nostr has over a million weekly users now. Where my fellow lawyers and immigration/mobility professionals at? 😄 #law #lawyerlife

Here are my top 5 law movies. My criteria are: 1. Realisticness 2. Entertainment value 3. Intelligent, deep, witty dialogue 4. Presence of deeper moral, lesson In no particular order, they are: 1. Breaker Mourant 2. My Cousin Vinny 3. 12 Angry Men 4. A Few Good Men 5. The Rainmaker #lawmovies #law

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I like big mobility and I cannot lie.

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Hungarian simplified naturalization (citizenship by descent) is expansive. There’s NO generational limit. You only need one qualifying ancestor. The catch? You have to be able to speak Hungarian conversationally. Nevertheless, thousands of Americans of Hungarian descent have learned Hungarian from scratch and obtained Hungarian citizenship, which is also an EU citizenship. #citizenshipbydescent #freedomofmovement #dualcitizenship https://www.malakoutilaw.com/hungariansimplifiednaturalization

The 3 most common ways to get 2nd citizenship: 1. time & presence —> regular natz 2. dollars & cents —> citizenship by investment 3. blood —> citizenship by descent #dualcitizenship

If you get residence by investment (RBI) in a European country for the purpose or qualifying for naturalization (citizenship) in 4-6 years, you are taking a significant risk. 1. Risk that you could lose your residency before you are eligible to naturalize. 2. Risk that the basis of residency could be changed legislatively (as is being threatened in Portugal), requiring way more physical presence in country than you planned for. 3. Risk that statutory naturalization eligibility criteria could change. 4. Risk that foreigners like you could become unpopular and so the govt institutes an informal soft policy to restrict/deny naturalization applications that look like yours. These are not hypothetical musings. They happen regularly and I’ve seen them all in my practice over the years. If your consultant/advisor/agent hasn’t told you about these risks, you probably spoke to nothing more than a salesperson shilling their product. Even with all those risks, the RBI may still be worth it for you but only do so understanding the vulnerability! #residencebyinvestment #dualcitizenship #freedomofmovement

Physical presence in country is becoming and will become the most indispensable requirement to get second citizenship (naturalize).

A list of formal citizenship by investment programs I help people obtain: - St. Kitts & Nevis - Malta - Turkey - Vanuatu - Grenada - St. Lucia - Dominica - Antigua & Barbuda #freedomofmovement #planb #citizenshipbyinvestment #dualcitizenship

Here’s an example of how an American with a criminal record would get post-conviction relief in order to apply for 2nd citizenship. 👇 “How to Correct an FBI IdHS Sometimes FBI background checks need to be corrected because either a) wrong information was reported on them or b) there’s a new development on the subject’s case after the arrest, charge or conviction. A new development could be a pre-trial dismissal, acquittal at trial or an expungement or vacatur after a conviction. A subject of the FBI background check has the right to challenge the accuracy of the data on the background check and request a correction. It’s important to note that whether a post-conviction dismissal can be entirely removed from an FBI IdHS depends on the law of the jurisdiction (usually a U.S. state) in which the conviction occurred. The result is that in some cases, a conviction may be entirely removed from the FBI IdhS, whereas in other cases, it may only be possible to update the FBI IdHS to reflect the post-conviction dismissal. Let’s take an example of a person with a state-level criminal arrest, charge and conviction. Johnny Livefast (“Johnny”), a U.S. citizen, is arrested, charged and convicted in California for DUI (VC § 23152(a)). Throughout Johnny's brush with the legal system, the data related to Johnny’s arrest, charge and conviction was reported by various California criminal justice agencies Johnny comes into contact with to the FBI CJIS. Johnny then discovers his due process rights were violated in his California trial. He hires a lawyer who files a request to vacate his conviction (i.e. “clear” his record for having been wrongfully convicted) by filing a motion under PC § 1473.7. Johnny’s motion to vacate is granted so the DUI conviction is dismissed. Now, Johnny, turned off by his experience with the U.S. criminal justice system, wants to apply for citizenship by investment in another country. Unfortunately, his darn FBI IdHS still reflects the arrest, charge and conviction for DUI. He wants it cleared from his FBI IdHS so he has the best chance of approval for citizenship. To have his FBI IdHS corrected, Johnny needs to request the correction from the CalDOJ first, then make sure the CalDOJ communicates the update to the FBI CJIS, who in turn will (ideally) correct Johnny’s FBI IdHS. With an updated accurate FBI IdHS. Johnny now feels comfortable to apply for citizenship by investment. In summary, to make a correction to the FBI IdHS and obtain a new copy for a foreign citizenship application, the steps are as follows: Step 1 - Obtain the expungement, vacatur, record seal or other post-conviction relief of the conviction; Step 2 - Request correction/update of the applicant’s record from the local or state criminal data repository (oftentimes the state's department of justice); Step 3 - Request that the local or state law criminal data repository communicate the record correction to the FBI CJIS; Step 4 - Request a new, updated FBI IdHS; Step 5 - Apply for (and hopefully be approved) second citizenship and become a dual citizen. Note: the FBI CJIS does have a process to challenge the FBI IdHS directly with CJIS. This is most applicable when the information challenged is pursuant to a federal arrest, charge or conviction. In my experience, the vast majority of Americans pursuing second citizenship with a criminal record have a state-level criminal conviction, which would require the correction process mentioned above in the case of Johnny Livefast.” #fbibackgroundcheck #dualcitizenship https://www.malakoutilaw.com/the-basics-of-an-fbi-background-check-identity-history-summary

There are 6 ways to get 2nd citizenship as an adult: 1. By naturalization after residency 2. By descent 3. By investment 4. By marriage 5. By exception 6. By religion #multiplecitizenship #freedomofmovement

How many citizenships (with passport) are “enough?” Obviously, the answer depends on the person’s circumstances but here are a few rules of thumb: 1. Two citizenships is the beginning of choice and decentralization of citizenship. With two, you can escape tyranny from one country and have the highest right of entry and residency in the second. With two, you can renounce one and still have access to a travel document. Two is the bare minimum to have some degree of autonomy. 2. At least three citizenships should be the goal for freedom of movement. Marginal utility tend to decrease sharply after 3 for most people, unless their citizenships are highly correlated politically. An example would be a triple citizen with U.S. - Canadian - British citizenship. Such a person would likely benefit having a 4th citizenship much less correlated with the first 3. I recommend collecting the low-hanging fruit (citizenship by descent) first, if it’s there for you. Then work on the hard/costlier yards (citizenship by investment or after period of residency) to round out your “mobility asset portfolio.” What do I think about residency as a mobility asset? It’s great, it’s of value for diversification but residency does not provide the highest right of entry and residency in a country - citizenship does. That’s why citizenship is the gold standard of mobility assets, not residency. #dualcitizenship #freedomofmovement

For hard edged libertarian takes, I listen to Doug Casey’s Take. Sometimes Doug’s word choice makes me wince a bit, but he presents interesting and insightful views re: diversifying your life, location, investments and minimizing vulnerabilities. #freedomofmovement https://youtube.com/@DougCaseysTake

In celebration of #bitcoin hitting $30k, I’ll be posting more second citizenship articles. 😄