Money Abroad
Tax residence is decided by rules you did not choose, and people discover it late
Whether a country treats you as tax resident is a legal test applied to the facts of your life, not a…
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Varun Krishnan
Editor, Globetrotter Talks
Varun has been reporting on arriving, visas & paperwork, money abroad since long before it was fashionable and is happiest when a piece answers the question completely.
14 articles
Money Abroad
Budgeting for a long stay is dominated by the costs that only happen once
The monthly figure people plan around is usually accurate and irrelevant, because the money that runs out…
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Settling In
A lease is mostly a document about what happens when things go wrong
Rent and duration are the parts everyone reads, and the clauses that decide how a tenancy actually feels…
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Settling In
Health cover for a long stay has to answer two questions at once
Ordinary care where you live and a serious emergency far from home are different problems, and a policy or…
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Settling In
Homesickness runs on a schedule that is worth knowing in advance
It rarely arrives as a steady state; it comes in waves triggered by dates, weather, illness and the…
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Settling In
A year is the unit in which a place becomes legible
Seasons, holidays, school terms and administrative cycles all repeat annually, and until you have been…
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Leaving
Deregistering is a real step and skipping it causes trouble later
In countries that record who lives where, leaving without closing your entry can leave liabilities running…
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Arriving
The partner who did not get the job has the harder arrival
When one person moves for work and another moves with them, the two arrivals are structurally different…
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Visas & Paperwork
Travelling while an application is pending is a separate decision
Having applied for something is not the same as holding it, and leaving the country in the interval can…
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Visas & Paperwork
An office asks the same question four times because four things are being checked
The repetition that makes bureaucracy feel obtuse is usually a set of genuinely separate verifications…
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Money Abroad
Supporting people at home is a commitment with a currency attached
Money sent back regularly is one of the most common financial features of a life abroad, and it is a…
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Settling In
Bringing an animal turns a move into an operation with a deadline
The paperwork for a pet is time-bound in a way the rest of a relocation is not, and the schedule is set by…
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Leaving
Your whole identity abroad is anchored to a number you are about to give up
Verification codes, portal logins, banking apps and recovery options all point at a local phone number and…
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Leaving
Leaving well means handing over what you learned to whoever is next
Every departing resident carries a small archive of hard-won local knowledge that dies with the move, and…
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