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I believe there are three main areas to master in order to become an Anticitizen.
Let’s look at them in detail:
In order to provide yourself the best opportunities, and a number of solid backup plans, it’s essential to acquire multiple citizenships and residencies around the world.
If you were born with only a single passport, and don’t have residency anywhere else, then you only have rights in a single country on the planet.
This is not ideal. If something negative happens in your country—like war, economic instability, economic collapse, increased taxation, social unrest, or even that country becoming a military dictatorship or authoritarian state—you don’t have a backup plan. Nowhere that you have the right to go and live to escape whatever it is you desire to move away from.
Multiple citizenships and residencies help protect you from this.
Citizenship and residency are different legal statuses however, and confer different potential benefits and liabilities.
Citizenship means full membership in a country, with rights like voting, obtaining a passport, and receiving full legal protections. Citizens also have obligations like paying taxes and possibly military service. For example, U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections and receive government protection abroad.
Residency allows someone to live in a country but with fewer rights. Residents can work, study, and access some social services but cannot always vote in national elections or get a national passport. Residency can be temporary or permanent. For instance, a U.S. Green Card allows permanent residency but not the right to vote in federal elections. Residency is often easier to obtain and can lead to citizenship.
For a lot of people, a residency might be enough to confer a little extra safety and security. But a citizenship is the gold standard, simply because a citizen will almost always have more rights in that nation.
A residency permit generally allows you live in a certain country, access that country’s services, and also legally pay that nation’s tax rate. However, you will in most cases be required to have your primary home in that nation. But if you don’t necessarily need the benefits of being a citizen of that place (like voting and a passport), residency may be enough.
We’ll go into more detail on both later on.
It’s important to select the citizenships and residencies you choose to acquire based on how they will benefit your individual desires.
Some citizenships like holding one in the EU will allow you to live and work in any of the 27 EU nations forever, without ever needing a visa.
Others like Australia or New Zealand will offer something similar—but only give you similar rights in those two nations.
It’s important to consider that some countries do not allow acquiring multiple passports.