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14 Sep
orlando retire overseas conference

It’s Day 2 Of The 2015 Retire Overseas Conference

My team and I are doing our best this week in Orlando to help the 400+ in attendance figure out where, exactly, they might best think about reinventing their lives overseas… “Kathleen, I’m thinking about Ecuador and Nicaragua… specifically, Cuenca and Granada. Here’s what I want… “Well, first, here’s what I don’t want. I don’t […]

01 Jun
View from Q1 looking north

The Benefits And Advantages Of Living, Retiring, And Investing Offshore

I’m traveling in the United States this week. The visit is reminding me that, in fact, this is one of the easiest places in the world to live and spend time. You might wonder understandably: Why do anything offshore in the first place? Easier, surely, just to stay put. Overregulation, overreach, invasions of privacy, and […]

20 Apr
investing in paraguay

The Travel And Visa Benefits Of A Second Passport

Americans can enter Paraguay via the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in Asunción without having a visa in advance. Enter the country by road or boat, and you have to obtain your visa before you travel. It’s not a big deal getting the visa at the airport, but it slows you down and costs US$160. It’s […]

05 Mar
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Americans Living Overseas Are Exempt From The Affordable Care Act

One more benefit for Americans living overseas is that you are exempt from Obamacare. If you don’t want Obama’s health insurance as an American abroad, you don’t have to have it. In fact, living overseas, you can have no health insurance whatsoever if you like. Who wouldn’t want health insurance? Friends have gone without health […]

09 Feb
The Benefits Of A Second Passport can be many

Jus Solis Citizenship In The United States

When we were living in Ireland, that country still offered jus solis (right of the soil) citizenship. It was the last Western European country to do so. If you were born in Ireland, you were automatically a citizen. That’s how our son Jackson got his Irish citizenship… by being born on the island. One perk […]

24 Nov
Live, Retire, Invest In Nicaragua

Live, Retire, Invest In Nicaragua

Years ago we got an email from a reader in response to a report from Latin America Correspondent Lee Harrison on Ecuador. The reader wrote to ask where in Central America Ecuador was located. He’d been looking but couldn’t find it on a map. Ecuador, as I’m sure you realize, is not in

06 Nov
Obtaining Dual U.S. Citizenship For Children Born Overseas

Obtaining Dual U.S. Citizenship For Children Born Overseas

Two colleagues have had children in the past year outside the United States. In each case, the child has one American parent and one non-American parent. Both children have the citizenship of the country where they were born, the home country of the non-American parent in each case, and both children are eligible for U.S. […]

11 Aug
The High Cost Of Being An American

Are Today’s Americans Really Living In The Land Of The Free?

As I sat in the Panama City departure lounge last Saturday, I watched as the female security agent’s hands ran briefly over the breasts of a 30-something traveler, making sure that the traveler had no weapon in her bra. Apparently finding nothing but the breasts themselves, the agent allowed the woman to pass. The next […]

04 Aug
planting flags

Five Ways You Need To Diversify Internationally To Fully Protect Yourself

I’m reviewing and clarifying my ideas related to the Five Flags theory of diversification in preparation for my opening remarks at the Wealth Summit I’m hosting in Belize in October. If you’re new to the idea, the “Five Flags” are to do with residency, citizenship, banking, assets, and business. Not everyone needs all five flags […]