So I'm going to become a German citizen on 09/09
 

Nice collection so far.. Thanks to my grand father I was able to apply for a German citizenship last year.. my Naturalization appointment is on Sep 9. About a week later I'll be getting my passport and the real fun begins! :pimp My gf is so freakin excited

Israeli citizenship
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US Green Card
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German citizenship

Bye bye taxes

this European Union shit is nice.. always wanted to live in sweden for a while

Taxes suck. I'm moving to Costa Rica, from Canada, in large part to avoid taxes.

Non-resident in Canada + Costa Rica's geographical tax laws = 0% tax rate for me.

Nice, must be good knowing you'll have to comply with the German obscenity laws on your adult sites being a German citizen and all :1orglaugh

Id be revoking that shit ASAP if i were you, unless you have investigated what the German pornography laws are and are happy with having to verify EVERY surfer entering your adult websites by snail mail :1orglaugh

Regards,

Lee

What do you need to live in Costa Rica full-time (and legally? :pimp ). I lived in Panama for 8 months but used to go in and out on tourist visa every 3 months

Ah, who cares. I'll deal with it when the time comes (there are always many many ways for everything). All I want is the damn passport.. free access to all the countries in the Union. I hate tourist visas :mad:

I guess now it's time to learn some German.. lol. I'll look into it tonight

Learn every language but German, you'll get along better in germany.

Whens the last time you were there? Its immigration policies crack me up :1orglaugh

Never :) I don't even want to live there.. couldn't care less. What I'm looking at is spending a year in Spain or Sweden

http://europa.eu.int/youreurope/nav/...zens/home.html

Looks like I got a lot of homework to do. This is gonna be fun

Go with spain....very relaxed pot laws, its a dreamland of hot spanish women. Plus the best food on earth.

I thought you were Jewish? Why Germany?

no need to learn German. They teach English in german high schools, so every one knows English.

I am Jewish. My grand father was born in Germany and survived the holocaust. A few years ago in Israel they started giving out passports to descendents of German citizens - so my whole family applied last year. While I have no plans to live in Germany, I do find the passport extremely useful for complete free access to the entire region. :thumbsup

Scary enough, I have to agree with Lee...

you might have just made the biggest mistake in your porn carreer.

I couldn't care less about my "porn career" :1orglaugh I've put my adult projects on hold due to the whole uncertainty that's going on. That and because I'm currently involved in a promising mainstream search venture, and don't do much adult anymore. 90% of my income is coming from mainstream and investments these days.

Thinking what advantages German citizenship has over US...

Every god damn advantage on earth. And besides, I will have both that and my US green card

Like? Im sure its different for you then for me as a dutch citizen but Im like 5 miles away from Germany, besides the lower VAT theres really nothing it offers for other EU citizens imho, so what do they offer for US citizens?

PS 99% of the EU citizens have no clue what a green card is

PS2 dont learn german :)

You do not fully get it. lol.. if you are really unlucky, 1 picture gets you a big fine or puts you in jail. German laws are quite extreme currently...

Its just a warning to be careful anyway...

You mean the whole Jugendschutz thing?

Well, a green card simply means I'm a permanent resident in the US. That's pretty much the same as being a citizen, except that you can't become President one day :) Damn.

And now, even if I wanted to apply for citizenship in a year or two, I can't, because if I accept another citizenship I will lose my German one.

As for the benefits - I don't care much about the taxes and that sort of stuff - I'm thinking about the opportunity to live in any EU country I want. My gf and I were always planning on moving to Spain, and now it's going to be easier than ever (once we get married she will be able to work, and eventually become a permanent resident). My first visit to the EU as a citizen will be a week later when we travel Greece for a month. So fucking great.

Ok thats true, same as I cannot stay in the US longer then 3 months you cannot stay in the EU longer then 3 months. Thatll change true, you can live in any EU country then.

Yep! Also so many business opportunities.. this is so damn sweet.

Congrats man.

Your reasoning makes total sense to me.

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OMG, you must be so proud of your self!!

True. Just make sure you dont reside in Germany, since you gotta pay taxes there too. And you dont wanna know how high they are, dutch taxes are terrible but german are worse.

Anyhow guess you know since offer offshore etc... if you need to know anything or get stuff translated just tell me, I speak german, if you need ppl who do fluently there are some here madalton/amazingcontent for instance.

well good luck dude!

Thanks man :)

I already instructed my CPA to look into all the relevant tax implications :thumbsup Anyway, I don't really have any desire to live in Germany, at least not any time soon. I definitely see myself spending 4-5 years in Europe soon, exploring many different countries and just living it good. Man am I excited...

good luck to you. hope you enjoy being a german.

Congrats to you man. By the way, you better practice speaking German language as early as now, or are you good at it already?