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Emigrating to Finland without a job
For Finland, you may find information on registering your right of residence here: https://migri.fi/en/registration-of-right-of-residence. Employment is not a requirement to exercise your freedom of ...
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Residence/work permit in Germany when working remotely for US company without German subsidiary
OK, it took awhile to get through the process, but I have an update. Here's how I handled my situation:
I contacted a public-private organization called Berlin Partner for Business and Technology ...
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UK Citizen, Implications of losing my UK Residency?
The document referenced in the question is about determining whether are a UK resident or not for tax purposes in a given tax year.
That is separate from whether you have right of abode in the UK:
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Blue Card vs Work Permit for IT Specialists
If one wants to have a residence permit for the purpose of employment (if this is your main purpose of getting the residence permit) in Germany, it could be issued based on 2 paragraphs of the "...
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What are the permit implications of voluntarily leaving a job as a US citizen Blue Card-holder in Germany?
OK, I wasn't able to find an answer to my question through my own research, so I sought out 2 different lawyers and paid each of them about 100 EUR for a consultation (which amounted to an hour in an ...
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Does moving to a second EU country with a permanent residence from the another country, grant permanent residence permit for second country as well?
You may want to look at https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/legal-migration/long-term-residents as well; this is the page describing long term residency for the general public rather ...
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Which of the below countries allow retired parents to migrate to the country?
Canada: You can sponsor your parents for immigration once you become a permanent resident of Canada, subject to some other conditions. Permanent residents have the same eligibility to sponsor parents ...
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UK Citizen, Implications of losing my UK Residency?
Since you have a British passport, you are very very likely a British citizen, hence you don't need a visa to enter the country, nor would you ever need one. You can simply enter the country with your ...
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Carte de séjour in France if I already have a long-stay visa--what's the point?
I don't have a full answer for you, or a full understanding of the situation, but here are a few useful bits of information based on personal experience.
The carte de séjour will also serve as a visa ...
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Getting the Permanent Residence Permit In Germany with and without the Blue Card
After 5 years, you will become a “long-term resident” under EU law but it does not make all that much of a difference.
After 5 years, you can also apply for a Niederlassungserlaubnis but there are a ...
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Which German language test would be more recognized as demonstrating "command of the language" when applying for the blue card/permanent residency?
I'm afraid the only valid answer is to see your Ausländerbehörde and ask them.
From my experience, they will accept all kinds of certificates, because they will run their own simple test even if you ...
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Can an EU resident live anywhere in the EU?
Directive 2003/109/EC affords "long-term residents" a right to reside in other EU countries under certain conditions, although three EU countries have opted out of this directive (the UK, Ireland, and ...
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Anyone ever tried Canada Immigration Express?
The company you found has this footer
The CanadaImmigrationExpress.com website is owned and operated by the EU Company, Global Worldwide Online Marketing Limited, Registration Number 10816710, Lynton ...
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New Zealand or Canada, which is the better destination?
Look at the Employment by major industry group, seasonally adjusted, by province. The main industries I know so far over there are agriculture and fishing. Since you are in IT, if you were to go in SK,...
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British residence through gay marriage
The UK recognises same-sex marriages - as marriages in England, Wales and Scotland or as civil partnerships (with the same rights as a marriage but without the name) in Northern Ireland.
That means ...
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Is Biometric Residence Permit issued in UK actually a visa?
The residence permit is not a visa; it's a residence permit. Because it is evidence of your permission to reside in the UK, it can be used to enter the UK. For more information, see https://www.gov....
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Carte de séjour in France if I already have a long-stay visa--what's the point?
I am not sure whether it is absolutely impossible to renew the visa but that's not the way it's usually done. The regular process is: long-stay visa to enter then carte de séjour that you renew every ...
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Carte de séjour in France if I already have a long-stay visa--what's the point?
According to the OFII website, the part that makes this whole process logical is explained by this:
"L’accomplissement de l’ensemble des formalités est attesté par l’OFII par apposition d’une ...
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For how long and when in the green card application timeline does this travel blackout period exists?
Unless you have an Advance Parole, or you have H1b/H4/L1b/L2 status, leaving the US while your Adjustment of Status (I-485) is pending will cause your Adjustment of Status to be automatically ...
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EEA Family Permit refused - No clear reason given, appalling letter
The letter is a template that was not completed correctly (perhaps not at all). For example, certain text should have been deleted by the Entry Clearance Officer (ECO) and replaced with more ...
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Which German language test would be more recognized as demonstrating "command of the language" when applying for the blue card/permanent residency?
2019 Update: The Bundestag made a clarification in August 2018, in which they explicitly stated that a level of B1 suffices for the "ausreichende Kenntnisse derdeutschen Sprache" specified in § 10 Abs....
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Born in the US, want to 'repatriate' to grandparent's country
If your grandfather was born in Ireland, you can likely get Irish citizenship by descent now, by registering in the Foreign Births Register. Once you get Irish citizenship, you would be able to move ...
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Relocating to another Schengen country with Portugal D7 Visa
No, long term visa are only for the country you apply for.
And even short term visa are mostly just for the plans you present when you apply.
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Does permanent residence impose a minimum stay requirement?
PR status for Singapore can be lost if the person travels outside Singapore without a valid REP (re-entry permit), or if the REP expires while the person is overseas.
You can apply to renew the REP ...
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Can an EU 'Permanent Resident' work in non-Schengen country like the UK?
The rules you are referring to stem from directive 2003/109/EC and are wholly unrelated to the Schengen regulations (summary here). So they do apply to some non-Schengen countries (Bulgaria, Romania, ...
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Which is the nearest town to saskatoon(SK) for economic living?
Saskatoon is fairly small town (pop. 220K), with no other towns of size anywhere nearby. I don't think you will be able to get a meaningfully lower rent by driving even 150 km.
Also, please bear in ...
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Don't understand the Schengen area visa system, for staying Denmark? Not sure if I have overstayed?
You cannot really “overstay” in the way third-country citizens can. As a British citizen, the most that can happen if you stay longer than 3 months without doing anything in another EU country is the ...
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France: What happens to your immigration status when you leave the job that brought you over (visa)?
A general principle in France is that you are never forced to leave while your carte de séjour or long-stay visa is valid. There is none of the automatic loss of status or super-short grace period you ...
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Spouse visa with long stay student residence permit in France
Yes. I did this. I did a 2 year engineering degree and my wife lived with me. I showed that I had plenty of resources to support her, and she didn't work. I did not bring her into France later, she ...
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EEA Family permit no longer valid after a divorce and got a 6 months stamp on the border. Any advice on what to do next?
For people who finds themselves in the same situation, here's what happened.
I was able to send my application to Home Office to "retain rights of residence'' from within the UK and was granted for 5 ...
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