It's become very "à la mode" among some in the multiple citizenship/global mobility space to bash U.S. citizenship as nearly useless.
The reality is that if guaranteed access to the U.S. is critical to you for the rest of your life, you'll never be able to cobble together a substitute for U.S. citizenship that will give you the same strength of right of
- entry,
- stay,
- transit,
- access to business & industry,
- access to the job market,
in the U.S.
Not even having an EU citizenship with ESTA & E-2 eligibility.
If that tradeoff for the benefits (tax, financial reporting or otherwise) is fine for you then act accordingly.
But know the facts and don't get caught up in trendy, uninformed takes.
#uscitizenship #freedomofmovement #multiplecitizenship 
If a particular jurisdiction wanted to sell a fake eutopia as a honeypot for successful entrepreneurs, I imagine they'd
1. Lure entrepreneurs in with a low or no-tax policy that can (will) be ratcheted up later
2. Slap a thin veneer of social freedom on top of a deeply autocratic, surveillance-state govt
3. Pour billions into legacy media & influencers who will shill anything or any place for a buck
4. Try to brazenly frame strictly exclusionary naturalization policies as some kind of value marker.
Nation states can be slick marketers too.
#freedomofmovement #multiplecitizenship #fakepassportrankings
I help people, including Americans, maximize their freedom of movement among countries by getting citizenships, residencies and visas.
#multiplecitizenship #mobilitynostr
Below is a great, albeit sad example of #5 on my list or “passport attack vectors” (linked in the comments). 👇
“They have been stranded in the country without their passports, some left to fend for themselves while their families found safer refuge. The passports, they say, were destroyed by the US embassy, where the documents were being held for visa processing when the fighting broke out.”
Also, a description of how exit doors close for nationals when a country falls into turmoil. 👇
“On June 10, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry changed the rules to require all Sudanese to obtain electronic visas for entry. Previously, only men between ages 18 and 49 required an entry visa, with exemptions for women, children and the elderly.”
Visas, residencies and citizenship opportunities that appear just a few steps away during normal times disappear into thin air when crisis strikes.
And crisis can strike overnight.
#sudan #freedomofmovement #passport #dualcitizenship
For descendants of ethnic Slovaks. 👇
#slovakia #fredomofmovement #mobilitynostr
https://www.malakoutilaw.com/how-to-get-a-slovak-living-abroad-certificate-the-benefits
Applied through the passport system.
You can only get your passport from your country(ies) of citizenship, with few exceptions.
If you’re a single-citizen, your ability to make lawful bordered entries to other countries is subject to a single point of failure - your own country.
Countries/sovereigns controlling your entry to THEIR borders is not new.
Your home country controlling your entry to OTHER countries is what’s relatively (~100 years old) new.
#freedomofmovement #passport
Single-citizens and criminals wear handcuffs.
#dualcitizenship #passport #mobilitynostr
https://www.malakoutilaw.com/handcuffs-of-the-passport-system-mobility-concepts
Single-citizens and criminals wear handcuffs.
#dualcitizenship #passport #mobilitynostr
https://www.malakoutilaw.com/hranka-waiver-for-dreamers-to-visit-the-united-states
#mobilitymeme Monday 
I’m a toxic freedom of movement maximalist. #FOMmaxi
Anyone or anything who hinders multiple citizenship in any way is in my crosshairs. 😅
#mobilitynostr #bitcoinmaxi #multiplecitizenship #freedomofmovement
I like big freedom and I cannot lie.
Freedom of movement
Freedom of speech
Freedom of information
Freedom of money
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I separate "residency rights" given by a given citizenship into two categories, where they exist:
1. "Core" residency rights are the right live in THAT country. Core residency rights are not dependent on treaty, agreement or membership of the country in a union.
Example: You become a citizen of Croatia, so you have indefinite right of residency in Croatia.
Citizenship in Croatia offers core residency right in Croatia.
2. "Satellite" residency rights are the right to live in ANOTHER country.
Example: You become a citizen of Croatia. Croatia is a member of the EU, so you have the right of residency in another EU country such as Czechia.
Therefore, Croatian citizenship offers core residency right in Croatia and satellite residency right in Czechia (as well as other EU countries).
I differentiate because the satellite residency right is less robust of a residency right over time.
This satellite residency is vulnerable to at least four MORE future potential changes over time (both are vulnerable to the very collapse/dissolution of the country of citizenship) than the core residency right:
1. Croatia's continued membership in the EU;
2. Czechia's continued membership in the EU;
3. Material change to Article 21 of the TFEU;
4. Czechia's restraint from unlawful restriction/prohibition of EU citizens' residency in Czechia.
Any of these four events occurring would end the Croatian's practical residency right in Czechia while leaving it untouched in Croatia.
Therefore, the phrase "Citizenship in an EU country offers right of residency in any EU country" while generally correct, offers a low definition view of the mobility asset and residency rights.
The same type of evaluation can be made of any country that offers residency rights in another country whether by treaty, membership in a union, or otherwise.
Most people aren't aware of these differences or what they mean, which is why I started using the two terms to declare the differences and draw some attention to them.
#residency #dualcitizenship #freedomofmovement #coreresidency #satelliteresidency
At the risk of sounding like an exclusionary prick, I’ll say the vast majority of the real pros in global mobility/immigration (who are overwhelmingly lawyers, btw) don’t talk that way because they understand a citizenship and a passport are two vastly different (albeit related) things.
It’s not just a semantics issue.
The further removed a so-called mobility consultant/advisor is from the actual work of getting someone 2nd citizenship, the more likely they are to refer to it as “getting a second passport.”
#dualcitizenship #expertvsinfluencer #mobilitynostr
Passports are a bit different in nature than country-specific immigration restrictions because without a passport, you cannot just not “go” to a destination, but you also cannot “leave” your current one.
Country/territorial travel restriction has existed as long as humans started jealously guarding a piece of dirt. But this idea of needing permission from your HOME country (in the form of a passport) to go elsewhere is somewhat new.
The need for birth certificates and other vital documents, on a practical level, also leads to the issue I call “document dependence” i.e. when one qualifies for a mobility benefit but cannot prove it because of inability to get the literal wood, pulp and ink (the document).
Huge albeit issue in practice of mobility law that few lay ppl in the western world are aware of.