Recently, many friends came to privately say that they wanted to live overseas. Actually, I have recently dissuaded some people who have similar ideas. Immigration is a very complex systematic project, from the beginning of ideas to making decisions, then entering the process, and finally logging in with your family, it is time-consuming and expensive. Since it involves personal and family privacy, many things must be done by themselves, so a comprehensive assessment is required and a careful prediction of the future is enough.
In the past, others asked me a lot of questions, but it sounds like many people have misfocused. Now I will ask him many questions to verify whether this person is prepared, whether he is suitable for living overseas, and whether he can have a sustainable way to survive in the second half of his life? This matter is very important, involving changes in one family or even several families, and involves family happiness in the next few decades.
Today, I will briefly list these issues as the "six major preparations" and describe them below.
Psychological preparation
. Values and concepts
First ask yourself, why do you want to go overseas? In other words, what is your primary purpose? About 90% of people who move overseas are for their children. The second purpose is a normal life. There are actually valuable elements in this, rather than simply physical movement from point A to point B. A person’s destiny depends not only on the changes in the great times, but also on the individual’s active choice. And a person's behavior is determined by his ideas.
Your values and ideas will determine whether you can live in a foreign country in the future. You need to understand and identify with the mainstream values and expressions of the target country. For example, you can't advocate Nazism in Germany. You cannot make comments that cater to your enemy in an invaded and threatened country. You cannot love and praise non-elected countries in elected countries. Even if it is a category of speech, it will make you have no friends and be despised.
You need to follow the crowd in this country, be an extremely ordinary but normal person, and be a good citizen who abides by the law in . You need to have an equality concept and abandon the thinking shackles brought to you by class and hierarchical society. You need to give up your persistence in becoming a "people's best". You have not become a "people's best" in China. How can you be a "people's best" in a foreign country? Always remember that there is no one above people.
Don’t believe in the statement of “second-class citizen”. Citizens are citizens, no distinction between first and second grades. I usually ask back, "What are you at home?" In foreign countries, as long as you abide by the law, everyone's social identities are the same, and there is no high or low. If you encounter discrimination based on skin color or property, it is his problem, not your problem.
, Skills and Strength
Foreign countries are of course not paradise, each country has its shortcomings. Unless you are financially free and have very stable asset returns, you can of course be flat. If you are an ordinary person, you still need to work a considerable degree to ensure that you and your family can continue to live on an average level in a foreign country.
You want to solve a problem: What can you do abroad? How can we maintain a living standard that is comparable to or even better than that in China? How to maintain a stable and sustainable family income? Of course, many developed countries have bottom lines. What you have to do is how to maintain an average level or just get over it.
You need to reflect on your skills, professional background, and professional abilities. In addition to consumption and taxation, what abilities can you contribute to your target country? What can you contribute to the society you want to live in in the future? To be more specific, if you can't lie flat, what industry can you engage in? This problem is especially
information preparation
, immigration information
You need to understand the immigration policies and relevant bills of the target country. Most of these are publicly queried, as long as your language skills are good enough. We must move to a legal and legal basis. Since there is a border, freedom of migration must be based on legal practice.We must be good at comparing the cost-effectiveness of different countries, and of course this part can be done through immigration consulting agencies.
, Target Country Information
You need to know the general information of your Target Country. The state system, national anthem and national flag, language, administrative divisions, economic conditions, cultural traditions, welfare systems, industrial development potential, price and wage levels, holiday information, etc. Even further, you need to understand some of the laws and regulations of this country that involve itself. Only when you understand and become familiar with this country can you judge whether you have the confidence to live in this country based on your own professional background. Using Wikipedia and Google, most of the questions can be solved.
Family preparation
, Children
You need to discuss with your child if the child reaches the age to discuss. You have to listen to their voices. You need to let your child understand your true thoughts. If you are doing it for the child’s good, you need to explain to your child “why is this good”. After all, they will leave their friends and change their environment, and they will be nervous, afraid and afraid. You need to dispel your child's concerns.
You also need to understand the education status of children in the target country. You need to read the education bill of the target country, different admission rules in different places, basic situation of the school, subsidy amount to children, etc.
, parents
You should consider the future pension issues of parents and spouse parents. You can't let them live the rest of their lives on their pensions alone. Some countries can apply for long-term residence for their parents after naturalization, while others cannot. You want to determine what your future relationship will be with your parents and your spouse’s parents? Do they accept it? How to convince them? If you are not around in the future, can you solve their pension problem?
Each family has its own way of getting along with their parents and problems that only within the family know. This part requires you to think carefully, especially middle-aged couples. This requires learning the pension system and its implementation methods in the target country, the general process and expenses for medical treatment and hospital admission.
Asset preparation
, current assets
You need to calculate the asset status of the entire family. How much money can be spent to achieve the goal? How much is the cost of preparing to spend on moving in the matter according to different bills of different target countries and their different requirements? If you can’t work and earn income in the first two or three years, will you leave out the surplus funds that will be spent within three years? Since you have completed the "information preparation" I mentioned earlier, it is easy to calculate this cost. How to deal with the valuable bond assets of middle-class families such as
, valuable bond assets
stocks, fund ? Should I change it to local valuable bond assets? Can we intervene in other assets that are more liquid? What is the method? These also require some homework to judge future trends in the international market.
. Real estate
Do you need to sell a house? When will it be sold? How to determine the listing price? How can I sell it quickly? If there are several houses, how can the matching plan be the most reasonable? If the migration is successful, how can you buy a house abroad? Wait, this information also needs to be gradually understood.
4. Account status
Do you have an overseas account? This is very important, how many credit cards are there? What is the holding of international credit cards?
file preparation
, identity file
You need to prepare your passport for your family. According to different requirements of each country, it is also necessary to prepare marriage certificate , birth certificate , parent-child relationship certificate, certificate of no criminal record, academic degree, award certificate, social group appointment letter and other documents, as well as the language versions of these documents, and some documents also need to be certified and notarized. These follow-ups can be determined with lawyers and consulting agencies, but you must prepare for the future and find them all first.
, asset files
, such as bank statement , shareholder certificate, real estate registration documents, income certificate, tax payment certificate, etc., these must also be discovered and sorted according to different requirements.
, business documents
. Entrepreneurship and investment visas in some countries require past experience proof. For example, are you a corporate legal person? Business license, account opening notice, equity documents, corporate articles of association, etc., past company contract documents, agreement documents, etc., business cards from past years, etc., published monographs, patent certificates obtained, etc.
language preparation
What is your English level? Are there any plans to continue improving? Are you ready to learn the language of your target country? What is the language examination system in the target country? etc. These also need to be understood.
After all, it boils down to this process, which is just eight words: learning, accounting, evaluation, and decision.
people are very lazy. We have encountered too many examples, those who forget about this, those who lose documents, those who lose their stocks, those who burned their houses, those who divorced, those who fail the language test, those who parents object, etc., and they all gave up halfway.
There are still some people who have poor mobility and have been discussing this matter intermittently since 2016. Once there is any big news, they will ask, but it is often left alone. I have to say that if I made a decision five years ago, I would probably have lived and worked in peace now.
Only when you can complete relevant preparations in these six aspects can you ensure the smoothness of the entire process. In this way, when communicating with consulting agencies, lawyers, etc., we can avoid some big pits and ensure our own rights and interests. At the same time, the process will be relatively smooth. I also strongly suggest: strictly list a schedule and treat it as a big project to manage the process.
must be regarded as a serious and important matter, be correct and make the above preparations, because it involves the happiness of the family. It’s reliable to do things in the first half of your life, and it’s reliable to live in the second half of your life.
