A lot of European countries, particularly the United Kingdom have a long tradition of their Citizens becoming expats. What is an expat? Well, it is somebody like me, a person who goes and lives in a country other than that of which they are a citizen of. Americans, like me, don’t do this with nearly […]
I just sent her money for the airfare…
I hear those words regularly from people… “I just sent her money for the airfare, she is coming soon.” Hmm… Let me fill you in with a little more. Because I write in a number of places, and most of my writing is related to the Philippines in some way, a lot of people contact […]
The Immigration “Superbody”
The Government of the Philippines is currently working on new legislation to create an “Immigration Superbody” that will help make it easier for foreigners to visit the Philippines. Here we go again… Actually, it is not hard to visit the Philippines now, from the standpoint of immigration. In fact, the Philippines, to my knowledge, has […]
Maybe a little clarification is in order
A few days ago, my friend Chas, a regular LiP reader forwarded me a link to a news article, something which he does on a fairly regular basis. Sometimes, I get links to stuff I already know about, but sometimes I get little jewels of information that is totally new to me. In this case, […]
Taking the long way home
Have you ever taken the long way home, just for the experience? I’ve done it, no doubt about it. Sometimes when we go outside our normal path we find new things that we didn’t know about before. Sometimes we learn new things, sometimes it’s good, sometimes the experience is not so good, but it is […]
Good news for expats
Remember a couple of weeks ago when I wrote about a friend who was trying to open a bank account here in the Philippines? My friend was having problems opening an account because he is living here on a Balikbayan Visa. Although the law does not require it, many Philippine Banks require that a foreigner […]