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US billionaires' demand for 'golden passport'
schemes that sell citizenships to 'safe'
countries for up to $6.5m including New
Zealand and Portugal rockets by 337% in
three years as fears of civil unrest spike

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Posted By: Ribicon, 5/7/2022 11:04:38 PM

Soaring numbers of wealthy Americans are buying 'golden passports' that grant them citizenship to New Zealand, Portugal and other 'safe' countries over fears of impending civil war in their home country. Henley & Partners, a firm that helps the wealthy shop around for citizenship across the globe, said sales to American nationals worth between $50 million and $20 billion have shot up more than 337 percent since 2019, Business Insider reported. Countries involved—including Portugal, Malta, New Zealand and Austria offer citizenship or visas that lead to citizenship in return for heavy investment in the host national, and a visit of just a few days there each year.

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The parasites who feasted like maggots on the corpse of the USA are eying the exits before the peasants wake up. And unlike the wide-open joke of the US immigration system they rigged to their benefit, the places they find safe and desirable have barriers to entry high enough that only the elite can enter.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: BarryNo 5/7/2022 11:10:02 PM (No. 1149557)
Unlike the founders they have mo taste for freedom or this land. Good riddance and bad cess to them. They will find a very warm welcome if they try to return.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jollytroll 5/8/2022 12:44:52 AM (No. 1149587)
Although I don't have anywhere near that kind of money, I have also looked at some of the options for a 2nd passport/residency. When people ask why, I say for the same reason I have dehydrated food in the basement - in the hope I never need it. But if you need it, you NEED it. Urgency has increased quite a bit since even the people who only gave Canadian truckers small donations had their bank accounts frozen....
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 5/8/2022 1:36:13 AM (No. 1149601)
Big time "Do you know WHO I AM?" attitude with these asshats.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Strike3 5/8/2022 5:57:13 AM (No. 1149665)
I intend to sit right here and defend what is mine until I run out of ammo - at which time I'll draw the knife.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: petrichor 5/8/2022 7:24:37 AM (No. 1149707)
Looks to me like a bunch of people who are going to miss all of the fun.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bigfatslob 5/8/2022 9:57:11 AM (No. 1149844)
If one side is not prosecuted and the other gets a pass I'm going to stay for the fun. It won't last very long the loud mouths just enjoy the freedom to aggravate the other side until it becomes physical. Let the snobs run but just don't let them back in.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: MDConservative 5/8/2022 10:04:35 AM (No. 1149853)
There ought to be a law that denies "dual citizenship" to American citizens, natural-born or naturalized. Other citizenships should also be renounced at the time of taking US citizenship. Buying a "foreign" passport is repugnant. What's the point of keeping US citizenship? Revocation shouldn't be much of an issue for a voluntary act such as this, just part of the price.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Kate318 5/8/2022 10:34:42 AM (No. 1149875)
New Zealand and Austria?? Those two countries had some of the most draconian Covid mandates, including forced vaccination and prison time for non-compliance. Money can’t buy brains, I guess.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: AlpineLace 5/8/2022 11:36:57 AM (No. 1149936)
Interesting that they think a civil war in the US would not adversely affect the whole world.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: bighambone 5/8/2022 11:39:38 AM (No. 1149939)
Today most immigrants to the USA who have become naturalized US citizenship have two passports. Their original passport issued by their home country, and a second passport issued to them by the USA based upon their naturalized US citizenship status. The reason for that is that those immigrants simply retain their home country citizenship after they accept naturalized U.S. citizenship. Those immigrants are referred to as being duel citizens or duel nationals, a status that is not provided for in U.S. Nationality law and is contrary to the content of the oath that immigrants take before they are granted naturalized US citizenship. That’s about the same two passport “convenience” situation that will occur after those US billionaires and millionaires purchase foreign citizenship and passports from foreign countries.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: TJ54 5/8/2022 1:18:30 PM (No. 1150032)
New Zealand? LOL - that is fascism central
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