Step #4, Day 8 Assignment

But we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves. Your work for today is to investigate the foreign residency options on offer in the country(ies) at the top of your favorites list.

Until tomorrow…when we’ll talk about foreign residency options that lead to citizenship. This may not be a priority agenda for you, but it’s an interesting option to consider at this still getting-started point of your process.

Until then,

Kathleen Peddicord
Your New Life Overseas Coach

P.S. As I mentioned, not every country on my list makes it easy or even possible, depending on your circumstances, for you to establish full-time residency. That needn’t be a big deal. If full-time residency isn’t an option… consider residing in the country part-time…

Part-time overseas living can take many forms. You could decide to spend part of each year in another country. You could decide to divide your year between two (or three or even four, as Lief and I plan) foreign countries. You could decide to move nowhere in particular, following in the footsteps of my friends Paul and Vicki Terhorst, who, for the past 35-or-so years, have been moving around the globe “in retirement,” as their imaginations and their budget allow.

We’ll take up this important relocate-part-time idea later in the program.

My point now is that you shouldn’t take a country off your favorites list simply because it doesn’t offer a full-time residency option that works for you (or at all). Vietnam, for example, could be a great (and super affordable) place to spend, say, six months each year. You could enjoy the remaining six months back home… or in another hemisphere altogether.

Your task right now is to understand if the country(ies) that interest you offer residency options that work for you… and, if not, to begin thinking through a strategy that accommodates the residency options that are available to you in the places where you want to spend time.