The cleanest advice often comes from messiest experience. Because when you've done something the hard way, the confusing way, the "definitely don't recommend this" way - you understand the systems well enough to help people do it the right way. International relocation isn't one-size-fits-all process you can package into universal steps. It's navigating bureaucracy that varies by country, income type, family situation, timeline, citizenship background, and dozens of other variables that make each person's pathway different. You can't cookie-cutter this. Which is why generic "how to move abroad" content falls apart when people try to apply it to their specific situation. They're trying to force their circumstances into someone else's pathway instead of identifying pathway that actually matches their circumstances. This is why lived experience matters even when that experience was unconventional. Especially when it was unconventional. Because clean straightforward relocation story teaches you one pathway. Complicated messy relocation across multiple countries teaches you how systems work, where flexibility exists, what actually matters versus what's just bureaucratic theater. Having navigated immigration processes in multiple countries, with different visa types, during different global circumstances, under different constraints - that creates understanding of how these systems function that you can't get from doing it once the easy way. The expertise isn't "here's how I did it, do exactly this." The expertise is "here's what I learned about how immigration systems work from doing it multiple ways, here's how that applies to your specific situation, here's pathway that matches what you actually have versus trying to force you into pathway that worked for me." Your journey won't look like anyone else's journey. Your constraints are different. Your qualifications are different. Your priorities are different. Your timeline is different. Cookie-cutter advice assumes all those variables are identical across everyone trying to relocate. They're not. Which is why personalized analysis matters. Why understanding your actual situation matters. Why having database of options matters instead of promoting single destination or pathway. The Americans successfully relocating internationally aren't all following same playbook. They're identifying which playbook matches their situation, then executing that specific pathway. Different families, different approaches, same outcome of living abroad. Link in bio for pathway that matches your situation, not mine. ๐๐บ๐ธ
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For the longest time, I thought that my messy journey of moving abroad wasn't worth sharing, because it wasn't what I would advise other people to do. It was very long road with a lot of twists and turns. When my family originally left the United States, it was during COVID times. It was November of that first COVID year, and at that time, American passports were only being allowed into 17 different countries. At least half that list was countries that you definitely did not want to go to. When we were picking the country to leave the United States to go live in, we had a very limited option set, and we chose a country that we had never been to before, and we simply went there and lived there for a year as undocumented residents. I would never recommend that clients go do the same and live in a way where they are skirting regulations or skirting the law, but that's what my family did. Then we moved on and we lived for two and a half years under an ancestry visa in Japan, and now we live on a retirement visa in Portugal. So these steps, they wouldn't make sense for any other family, but I've learned a lot about moving abroad along the way, and that's why I decided to start helping Americans figure out their path to leave the United States. Because even though my personal path has been messy, and it is not the path that anyone else that I would ever advise would take, it is definitely valuable and I have learned a ton in order to be able to share that advice with other people who are wanting to leave the United States. Now I've built out a database of visas where you can move legally to those countries, and I have 217 different visas I can now recommend across 115 different countries. So if you're ready to leave the United States, take it from someone who's done it even when I didn't do it perfectly. Even though it was messy and long and complicated and not the path you will take, I can teach you how to do it better than I did so that you can get out and get to safety.
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