SIMON BLACK DALLA RESIDENZA AL PASSAPORTO PER TORNARE LIBERI!
Today is a pretty great day for Team
Sovereign Man.
As I've mentioned before, we've got a
very close-knit team down here in Chile-- people from all over the world. They
hail from places like Slovenia, Lithuania, Ukraine, New Zealand, Argentina,
Thailand, etc.
Now as we've discussed so many times in
the past, we are not defined by our nationality. The color of one's passport is
as irrelevant as the color of one's skin.
We're all human beings, citizens of the
world. Passports are nothing but antiquated leashes to keep us tethered to
insolvent governments. It's a way of dividing people instead of uniting
us.
Unfortunately passports are a necessary
evil.
Without one, it's difficult to travel
worldwide or even do basic business like registering a corporation or opening a
bank account in most places.
But since we don't get to live in a
world of zero passports, I advocate having several. Because it's much better
than the default option-- one.
Most people have a single nationality,
based either on where they were born or to whom they were born.
A passport is nothing more than a
certificate of accident of birth. It tells the world that you just happened to
be born on a piece of soil or to particular parents, either of which is a total
fluke.
But because of this total fluke, we
human beings are born with certain obligations, none of which we ever actually
signed up for.
The obligation to pay taxes. The
obligation to go fight and die in a foreign war waged by politicians. The
obligation to pay down the debts that have been racked up by previous
generations. Etc.
I think this is total crap. Human beings
are born free. We do not come into this world owing anything to anyone, least
of all some politician.
Yet for folks who go their entire lives
with a single passport, a single nationality, they have no other choice.
More than likely, the country in which
you were born (or the country of your nationality) has a total monopoly on you.
They have no competition.
That's why they can treat you like a
Medieval serf... or dairy cow to be milked at their discretion. What option do
you really have?
It's the same reason why that big public
utility where you live can have such horrible customer service-- they don't
have any competition. What else are you going to do-- shut off your
water?
It turns out, though, that you can
obtain other passports... other nationalities in your life. You can introduce a
bit of competition in this equation. So by obtaining a second passport,
suddenly you have another option.
Having more options means more freedom.
It means that if your government becomes more oppressive, you are no longer
chained to it.
In many ways it's the ultimate insurance
policy. And it's a policy that need not really cost you anything.
Back to my intro-- a member of my team
here from Ukraine has just received today a second passport from
Nicaragua.
Her home country is in tatters at the
moment, ripped apart by civil war and revolution.
She already has residency here in Chile.
But with this new passport, all sorts of new possibilities open up.
She can now travel with ease across the
region, and even get visa-free access into Europe (which she cannot do with her
Ukrainian passport).
She received this second nationality
simply because she has ancestors from Nicaragua... and she went to the trouble
of finding the appropriate records and applying.
A number of countries have similar
laws-- if you have parents, grandparents, and sometimes beyond from that
country, you too can obtain a second citizenship and passport.
Hungary's government lets people
demonstrate ancestors as far back as the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Spain is
issuing passports to descendants of Sephardic Jews from five centuries
ago.
If you're persistent, there are a lot of
options out there. And except for a few FEDEX charges, the cost of obtaining
citizenship by ancestry is minimal.
Now, in the event that you didn't choose
your ancestors well, there are still a lot of great options to obtain a second
passport.
The primary route I would recommend is
residency-- you can obtain residency in a country like Chile or Panama, and in
a few years' time, apply to become a naturalized citizen.
The cost of doing this is low,
particularly given the value of having a second passport.
And in a place like Panama, it's
incredibly easy because you aren't obliged to spend any meaningful time in the
country during that five year period.
This is a great option for a lot of
people, and I would strongly encourage you to consider it.
Obviously it's important to have the
right information and contacts to do this,
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