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Are You an Expat Looking for Work? Check out Expatworkforce.com

June 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Are you an expat living somewhere in the world looking for extra work? Check out this cool new website we discovered called ExpatWorkforce.com that seeks to build a network of skilled expats all over the world.

About the site:

Like most successful companies, Expat Workforce was created to solve a problem. In this case, two problems: one for business, one for expats.

We help companies save money by outsourcing while maintaining a high quality of work. We help expats find remote jobs with Western companies so they can finance their dream of living abroad.

One of the founders is the CEO of a high-end American service company that calls every sales lead captured by his company’s web site. However, he noticed that his in-house sales team ended up leaving messages about 30% of the time. He had always been reluctant to offshore the phone sales process of his high end product because he feared his customers would have a negative perception of this. However, by chance he re-connected with a friend who moved to Mexico who connected him with other Americans there who could make the initial sales calls, leave voice mails and only pass on qualified leads to his in-house sales team. Once he started outsourcing to his first expat, he realized that there were many other projects that he could give to expats around the world that he previously had not considered. An idea was born.

The other founder is an expat who left a promising career as a computer science engineer in the USA to live in Taiwan and pursue his goal of becoming fluent in Mandarin. Upon arriving in Taiwan, he met many expats who were doing odd jobs or teaching English simply as a way of making ends meet while gaining international experience and Chinese language skills. Most of them had professional experience in other areas, but couldn’t find work in their field while in Taiwan. He was frustrated by the fact that such brilliant professionals couldn’t use their skills even to earn the modest amount required to live comfortably in Taiwan. An idea was born.

Here’s a video about the site as well:

If you’re interested - click here to check out the site.

Filed Under: Expats, Life Abroad, News, Work

Australia: Skilled Migrant Profile for Australian Immigration

June 24, 2011 by 1 Comment

Here’s a great video profiling a family from the UK who decided to move to Australia.

Andrea and her family have migrated permanently from the UK and are happily settled in the coastal town of Geelong through the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (RSMS). RSMS allows employers in regional areas of Australia, to sponsor employees who are foreign nationals for a permanent visa to work in Australia.

Filed Under: Australia, Videos

Video: Interested in Immigrating to the Cayman Islands? Check out this video

June 24, 2011 by 2 Comments

Cayman Immigration Consultation Services provides an extensive variety of quality services at competitive prices. These services include temporary work permits, annual returns, translations, work permit grants/ renewals, notary services, business staffing plans and much more. Call us today for advice.

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Top 10 Most Unusual International Borders

June 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The great folks over at Listverse have put together a great list for the Top 10 Most Unusual International Borders.

Here’s an excerpt:

9. Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog

Baarle-Nassau is a Municipality in the Netherlands. It shares an unusual border with the Belgian municipality of Baarle-Hertog. Baarle-Hertog consists of 26 separate pieces of land surrounded by Baarle-Nassau, but some portions of Baarle-Hertog also contain areas belonging to Baarle-Nassau. The smallest parcel belonging to Belgium is only two-thirds of an acre (one-quarter of a hectare). The border is so complicated that there are even some houses that are bisected by it. In the picture above you can see the Netherlands on the left and Belgium on the right.

It’s a fascinating article.

Click here to read the rest.

Filed Under: Geography

Video: A Guide to the 50 States by their Stereotypes

June 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment

This is hilarious!

Filed Under: Humor, Videos

The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained

April 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment

This if a fun video and it’s very informative for those that are curious about what exactly the United Kingdom is.

Filed Under: Geography, Guides, Humor, United Kingdom, Videos

Buy EU Residency the Easy Way: Buy A House in Latvia

April 13, 2011 by 6 Comments

One of the questions we get a lot is how can you easily obtain an EU Schengen Residency Visa? Well, now you can get one through Latvia, simply by buying property there.

Obtaining EU residency is one of the hardest things to get in the world even though Europe has a reputation for being open to immigrants. Well, there’s now an easy way to get EU residency – if you’ve got deep pockets.

Contact our local Latvian Real Estate Agent.

According to Immigration Matters:

Anyone from outside the European Union who buys property in Latvia or invest in business will now receive EU residency rights, the BBC reports.

With Latvia suffering one of the worst economic crises in Europe, many praise the new way of attracting foreign investment.

Property buyers can get European Union residency rights thrown in as an added ‘bonus’, rather like a free washing machine with a Wimpy starter home.

Critics say European residency rules could be abused by criminals, but the real point is whilst the UK and other countries spend millions trying to restrict non-EU immigration and secure their borders, Latvia, a member of the European Union, is effectively flogging EU passports through Estate Agents!

Yes, you can now legally buy EU residency from Latvian Estate Agents!

Source.

After obtaining Schengen visa area residency – you could then live and work anywhere in the EU that’s within the Schengen – including the UK. I suspect a rental market glut will soon be apparent in Latvia once people get word of this.

 

Filed Under: EU, Passports, Schengen, Visas Tagged With:

Life Abroad: Hong Kong Home to World’s Most Expensive Property

April 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment

In a recent survey conducted by Savills PLC in the UK, it has been discovered that Hong Kong is now home to the most expensive residential property in the world.

From Mercopress:

The report compared four cities; Hong Kong, New York, London and Moscow.

Property in Moscow emerged as being 7.4% more expensive than property in London, whereas property in New York was 15% cheaper than in the U.K. capital.

The report also noted that the price of a typical home purchased by a company chief executive in Hong Kong has risen by 148% over the past five years. Over the same period, this figure in Moscow rose by 110%; London by 47% and in New York it fell by 7%.

The Head of Savills Research, Yolande Barnes, commented; “By looking at a basket of properties by occupier type we gain insights into the fluctuating costs of housing – a vital component cost of doing business in a given location.”

Interestingly, although the cost of buying a new property when relocating has continued to rise, the cost of rental property has remained constant in all four of the capital cities surveyed.

Hong Kong is currently experiencing a housing shortage, with a lack of supply and high demand leading to sharp increases in property prices.

In an attempt to tackle rising prices, in November last year, the Hong Kong Government introduced a number of measures such as applying stamp duty of up to 15% to property transactions and increasing the minimum down-payments for mortgages.

To address the housing shortage, Hong Kong Government chief executive Donald Tsang promised to release more land for the development of low cost housing and added that the government should supply land to support the construction of 20,000 new apartments per year, although he said the figure was “not a fixed target.”

So, one thing is for sure – if you’re looking to emigrate abroad to find somewhere more affordable to live – Hong Kong shouldn’t be at the top of your list!

 

Filed Under: Life Abroad, Property Tagged With:

Prepare for the New Irish Exodus

April 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Due to Ireland’s economy going into the crapper – there are various news reports about that the world should prepare for a new Irish Expat exodus as young people abandon Ireland for better economic opportunities.

From The Guardian:

Ben Fraser’s first vote in an Irish general election may also be his last for a long while. Like many of his contemporaries, the 18-year-old student is seriously considering joining an exodus that is gathering pace as the recession deepens.

Up to 50,000 Irish citizens could leave the country this year, which would be the biggest wave of emigration since the last great exodus in the unemployment-blighted 1980s.

But while that mass desertion involved labourers and construction workers, this time it is professionals and graduates who are leaving.

“Anyone you meet who has been considering doing a college course knows there is a mood around, a real feeling that our best, our only option is to go away,” said Fraser, who is studying business and economics at Trinity College, Dublin.

Source.

Where is this highly educated class of unemployed people heading? Most are heading for the UK, where the economy is stronger and there are no immigration restrictions on Irish people. Many others are heading to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA – all countries that are a little harder to get into and generally require special skills for a visa.

Filed Under: Emigration, Ireland, News

Fun Video: How to Cross into the USA Illegally From Canada (or vice versa) – Derby Line, Vermont

January 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment

This is a fun video – I’d never heard of Derby Line, Vermont until I saw this video. Derby Line is a town that’s literally split in half by the USA/Canadian border due to some quirks in border surveying.

Some people’s houses are literally in two different countries – the most famous attraction is the library where you enter in the USA side but have to check out in the Canadian side.

The whole existence of this town is absurd but it’s a very interesting exploration of a strange place where simply crossing the street can mean an accidental (and illegal) entry into another country.

Here’s the video I found.

Filed Under: Humor, Oddities, Videos
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