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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. Hi all, I haven’t fallen off the map. Not yet anyway. 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. 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?”. What countries were most popular? 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. 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 I just read an article listing these 3 countries where expats are returning home in droves: United Kingdom 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 [...] |
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