To Wait or Not to Wait – that is our question
Every night, the wife and I read a couple bedtime stories to our young kids. One of my daughter’s favorites is Dr Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
We both recommend it highly. If you don’t have it – get it now..
The [...]
Termination Contract
hey, I promised an update to my earlier post “Getting Laid Off” – and here it is!
My position is no longer going forward as the company has reengineered itself through staff reductions in response to the poor economy. Can you tell I work for a major corporation?
Yes, I am officially laid off, rightsized, [...]
In a prior post, I mentioned how most countries do not require a visa just to visit. But some do. Some examples include Bolivia, India, Russia (& most of the former Soviet Republics), Cambodia, Vietnam. This post will set your expectations about getting a tourist visa for those countries.
How long does it take [...]
Hi all,
I haven’t fallen off the map. Not yet anyway.
I know I am woefully behind on posts. It kills me, really it does.
Tomorrow I am jumping back in with both feet. I will deliver the next article in the “Visa Process” series.
There’s some big news coming from me soon. [...]
Rather than dive into filling out forms, let’s be sure we’re all starting on the same page.
Read the below Q&A. Once you know & understand them, you’re ahead of most.
What’s a Visa?
Not the credit card. Here, we’re talking about permission to visit a country. Consider it like your personal [...]
This is a Big Topic: the visa process.
By the way, when expats talk about visas, we ain’t talking credit cards!
Whenever I hear the question How do I get a visa?, I cringe. I cringe because I know it’s the most common question to ask and the most difficult one to answer.
Some people [...]
“I want to be an expat” – a dream of over 700 million people.
A survey, which took 3 years to complete, was finally released. The survey asked “Would you like to start a new life abroad?”.
Across 130 countries, 16% of the people answered “Yes.”
What countries were most popular?
Mostly developed western countries, plus Saudi [...]
I’m not just adventurous in real life (yeah, right), I’m adventurous in website administration.
My dream of helping people live overseas suddenly found a glass ceiling – enough time to answer e-mails.
So, one idea I came up with is to create a forum where people could ask questions (and I still answer them), but future [...]
Hi all – it’s January 2010. Unbelievable. I feel like it should still be March or April 2009. Anyway – Happy New Year!!
Time to Set the Year’s Goals
Right around now is when I set some goals for myself for the new year. I’m a big believer in the power of setting [...]
I just read an article listing these 3 countries where expats are returning home in droves:
United Kingdom
Spain
Ireland
Reportedly, the big cause is the weak pound. No surprise there, the British sterling has been losing ground for months, even against a weakening dollar. What does this mean to expats paid in sterling? It means [...]