whaack: thimbronion: Just applied for residency, got my appointment for May 3, 2022
thimbronion: Congrats man! What visa?
whaack: atm I'm going to go with rentista
thimbronion: Ah ok. Makes sense.
whaack: if bitcoin goes up by a factor of 10 between now and then i'll probably try to do the property purchase route
thimbronion: It's worth considering given how annoying it is to make monthly deposits and pay into caja.
whaack: haha
whaack: I figured that could be "scripted" but perhaps not so simply
billymg: thimbronion: re: monthly deposits, have you considered offering full year lease in advance?
billymg: most landlords happy to take that deal
thimbronion: billymg: I haven't. I was referring to the requirement to just deposit 2500/mo into any CR bank, though.
billymg: ah, right, that
asciilifeform: whaack: how much property, at minimum, does one have to buy for this deal ? ( can buy e.g. parking spot, and qualify..? )
whaack: it's either $200,000 or $250,000 worth
whaack: i forget which of the 2
asciilifeform: iirc that's ~4x cheaper than europistan, for example
whaack: the easier route is to show you can transfer $2500 a month to a CR bank account for 24 months in a row, from my understanding you need to setup a type of trustfund account in the US with $60,000 to show you can complete the payments
whaack: In Panama you can get residency by just putting 5 grand in an account, and apparently you can take 95% or so of it out right after you make the account
asciilifeform: whaack: can't simply tx 60k ?
whaack: asciilifeform: I'm not sure, but I think possibly not since thimbronion is complaining about having to always remember to do the 2.5k transfer
asciilifeform: or wait, all of these dun get you passport, but only equiv. of usa's 'green card'..?
whaack: correct, it doesn't give you a passport
whaack: argueably not worth going through the trouble as many people live here no problem without residency
asciilifeform: whaack: what's it take to get the passport ?
whaack: From memory, I think you need to live here for 7 years and pass a Spanish test and culture test
whaack is really not sure though
thimbronion: asciilifeform: passport is obtainable after 10 cummulative years in country
thimbronion: I met one girl who got residency via a fake adoption.
thimbronion: Alternatively, the strategy mp suggested of impregnating a local also worx.
thimbronion: Recently got a hot tip about it being fairly easy to get a passport in Montenegro, but I don't see myself learning the language.