• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    it is still very easy to get a passport. I helped a friend get theirs last month, and more over the years.

    don’t listen to any of the ignorant comments saying it’s difficult to get one; they don’t know what they’re talking about.

    you can do it online or in person at a US Post office.

    fill out the application form, takes maybe 20 minutes tops, pay the fee (165$), they take your picture, you will get your passport in the mail in a couple of weeks, it lasts for 10 years, renewable on the go from embassies and consulates.

    If you have any questions about passports or traveling, fire away.

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        As a swede in france, you can add the travel cost to Paris, only the embassy there has the biometric machine to do passports…

        Also the idiots in sweden thought 5 (yes five) years validity is a good thing.

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        yea, but $16 a year for an instant 50-90% reduced cost of living with guaranteed high-pay employment and no income tax while retaining access to consular services is a pretty good deal.

        not as good as 7 bucks a year, but I’m not exactly going to quibble over the extra ten in the face of all the benefits.

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            I think they think that by having a passport you can go work in another country and skip out on taxes?

            I don’t know where they got that idea but it’s hella wrong.

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            I tried to make my answers very simple and concise.

            which part don’t you understand?

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              10 days ago

              These are your assertions:

              • Americans with a passport are guaranteed a high paying job
              • Anericans with a passport don’t have to pay US income tax
              • Americans with a passport also don’t have to pay foreign income tax
              • Americans with a passport can move ‘instantly’ (even with some leeway for figurative language) to somewhere with 50-90% lower cost of living.

              Are you an illegal border-running English as a Second Language teacher in Cambodia by any chance?

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                no, those are not my assertions.

                it seems that rather than ask clarifying questions, you’ve extrapolated false conclusions from a base of assumptive ignorance.

                not very helpful.

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                  I hate to break it to you then, you are terrible at communicating what your actual assertions are. Because you made those assertions simple and concise. Whatever you imagined you were saying, you didn’t. Hence: what the fuck are you talking about?

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                    Sport, I wasn’t putting forth assertions.

                    I’m spitting facts, you made assumptions based on those facts rather than asking for clarification on the parts you didn’t understand or are ignorant about.

                    now you’re pretending that your conclusions based on your assumptions are somehow my assertions.

                    That’s your problem.

                    If you want to just throw a tantrum, continue.

                    If you want clarification, ask for clarification.

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            10 days ago

            are you confused by the numbers or the words?

            both are concise and to the point, in case someone like you happened upon them.