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RE: I've Reluctantly Taken A Break From Hive 🤷‍♂️ There Just Isn't Enough Time In A Day Lately 👎

in ASEAN HIVE COMMUNITY2 years ago

This is tragic to read about how the land thing isn't working out for you buddy. Your absence was noticed but also perfectly understandable.

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 2 years ago  

Some frustrating times, and now coincides with the umpteenth denial of our USA visa. At this point I don't think my American family will ever know my Cambodian family, and I've made peace with that. I also still want to get my daughters a strong passport before they're legally adults and the process is much harder. It looks like Portugal is the easiest EU country to get residency in, seems with proof of around $1,200 of monthly income I/we can get a self-employed visa and within 6 years could have Portuguese passports. rom what I've read we can spend only two months a year in Portugal and otherwise live in Cambodia, and still keep the path towards EU citizenship open.

If we could do that, at the end of the 5 years we could sell our land here for hopefully a profit, repay the loan and buy an olive tree and a roof in Portugal somewhere, perhaps the Azores islands, about as close as we could be to the US before we get passports.

There's already a rich guy buying up property in our area, talking about resorts, clearcutting the forest, etc., I suspect our little are will be ruined in 5 years, but the property worth much more, so I need to make peace with the fact that no natural spaces in Cambodia last for more than 15 years once humans enter them. I would also like Srey-Yuu to get some years of proper highschool education somewhere in the world, so who knows, maybe the future is Portugal, or at least two months a year.

 2 years ago  

That's such a tragic situation buddy. I've heard a lot of stories about people not being able to get their families into the United States legally over the years. As much as I complain about other countries being dicks about their visas, the US is much much more difficult.

What about Mexico? I've heard stories about how they will let basically anyone in there.

 2 years ago  

Many 'Mericans that live in Mexico don't fool with residency because I think you can stay 180 days per year without a visa, but Cambodians need a transit visa to even use Mexican airports, it was a problem for us on the way to Ecuador, had to avoid Mexican and USA airports.

Before heading to Asia many years ago I looked into Mexican residency visas, and it was tough. They required at least on year history of depositing $2,000 USD+ into an American bank account and to have earned at least that much in salary for a year before attempting to get the visa from the Mexican Embassy in the USA.

Most of the people that actually buy homes and do the retirement thing usually earn far more than that, so it's not a problem, but I never even earned more than $1,500 per month in the USA while working 60 hours a week.

Panama is the most open visa-wise, but I've never been interested in living or visiting there, plus it's expensive to go through the process, lawyers required for every document, everything apostilled from the USA, etc.