Citizens of the world

I frequently get questions regarding the citizenship status of a child born to a surrogate mother abroad. That is, if the child has US parents, but the mother is from another country will the baby born in another country have US citizenship at birth? The answer is yes, generally. If the surrogate mother is a [...]

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The post is to help you get an US spousal visa (immigrant visa- IR1 or CR1 via form I-130) or K1 visa (fiance visa which is a non immigrant visa). I did it for my wife and so can you, actually only the IR1. I wrote this more to get you thinking in the right [...]

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Is the European union bad or good? I can not believe the number of Americans that have skepticism about the EU. I even had one of my friends say, who knows in the future the US could have an armed conflict with the EU. Right, I can see British troops landing in Boston. People say [...]

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If you have read my blog you know I am a dual US and EU citizen. EU citizenship has many benefits believe me. The purpose of this post is to briefly tell you how to have a passport from more than one country, or at least my personal experience on how I achieved this. First  [...]

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Best place to learn a language I am not talking about countries to learn a language, you can learn a language anywhere.  I am talking about where to study a language, literally. Where is are the soles of your feet when you are studying. Living in Poland I am amazed how well Polish people speak [...]

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Living in Poland I have seen a lot of changes. The one thing that strikes me the most is the real estate market in Poland. I am not in the business of real estate, rather I have a Master’s degree in Economics and passively observe market changes. After about four years of watching the pull [...]

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Have you ever dreamed in a foreign language? This is my personal experience with dreams and I am curious about yours. My dream experience I often dream in the Polish language as I have lived here for a while.  My Polish is good but not perfect. When I dream at a subconscious level I am [...]

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I believe in the hard way to learn a language. I believe in doing such things as sitting down and either listening to the radio for a few hours a day in your target language or doing exercise in grammar books. I think there are many methods that will make studying easier to learn, such [...]

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There is a heated debate here regarding, “what is the hardest language“.  As Mr. Spock would say ‘fascinating’.  However, one of my commenter left a particularly good comment and  it supports my argument that Polish is by far the hardest language to learn.  This language is a linguistic nightmare, it is even harder than Chinese [...]

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Why I live in Europe Many people ask me why I live in Europe?  Why do you live where you do? If it is because you were born in your country, wrong answer. When you are 96 years old are you going to look back on your life and say you wish you had more [...]

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