Citizenship & Residency 2022

Unfortunately for all of us, significant changes in the global political and economic structure have since occurred, and today, we are facing an array of daunting challenges and multiple crises.

First, the Covid-19 pandemic has turned our lives and economies upside down—and it is not over yet. The global imbalance in vaccination rates have created different pandemic realities for people living in high-income countries and those in low-income countries, where many citizens have not even had their first dose of the vaccine. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine, in all its dimensions, is sending shock waves throughout the globe. It is a humanitarian catastrophe, and the prospects for the world economy – already battered by Covid-19 and climate change – have dimmed sharply. Add to this the growing threat of fragmentation into geopolitical and economic blocs.

Human history is replete with examples of human displacement due to war, persecution, financial calamities, disease, environmental disasters and other events that make living in one's land unbearable. Persons with limited resources would flee, and still do, as refugees and seek out a country – any country – that would take them in. Those with resources always had choices and would seek out a new home where they could again prosper. It is these resourceful individuals that this article will focus on.