Second passport

Hello

Today I would like to talk about second passports.

Specifically passports issued by Vanuatu government.

I am very often asked. Is it is it completely illegal just to have a second passport?

Isn't that something strange? Dodgy?

Um well,

this passport is not It's actually issued by the government Perfectly legally,

you have every older ones.

You obtain the passport, you have all the rights like any other Vanuatu citizen.

Of course, there are certain other items factors we need to consider.

For example,

if you are a citizen of a country which does not allow you to hold second passports,

then you are not technically able to get that passport from Guanajuato.

There are countries like Singapore, Malaysia,

even Germany which do not allow their citizens

to citizens to hold a second passport.

But there are many other countries which are quite okay with it.

So let's assume that this problem is not your problem and you can definitely

obtain a second passport and your current country has no issue with it.

Then what are the benefits of second passports?

Well,

I will just be talking about the Vanuatu

passport right now because each country has different,

different benefits and different requirements.

So it so happens that Vanuatu has no taxation, no income tax.

It has taxation in terms of, um, like VT and custom duties, but no income tax.

So it could be quite beneficial if you live in a country which is highly taxed.

And you would like to stop being a tax

resident there and actually move perhaps another country,

obtain different citizenship, become a tax resident in Vanuatu.

This this is all possible if you obtain the passport

and therefore, quite legally you can make you can earn millions and pay no tax,

which could be quite interesting.

Another reason is that Vanuatu offers visa free

travel to over 100 countries in the world.

It is quite interesting.

And it is quite, um, encouraging in a way, because there are quite a few countries,

uh,

the citizens of these countries have to obtain

a visa to everywhere they go nearly everywhere.

So one example, which comes to my mind, uh, people from India.

If you are an Indian passport holder, you need to obtain a visa to many countries.

Singapore, UK,

I think Hong Kong as well.

These countries require Indian passport holders to obtain a visa.

It is quite time consuming

and quite bureaucratic,

and no doubt that costs money as well. So

if you happen to be travelling travelling a lot and you

are fed up with this situation of obtaining visas for everywhere,

it would be

a good solution to obtain a passport which would get rid of this problem for you.

And another reason is that Vanuatu citizenship is for life.

So once you pay the fee, which is one of fee, obtain the passport,

then you can just renew it or every 10 years without any additional special fees,

just a normal renewal fees.

And it is hereditary.

Your kids are eligible to, uh, to obtain a

passport, which is quite interesting as well.

So, as you can see,

there are quite a few completely innocent reasons to obtain a second passport.

Uh, in fact, if you are,

if you want to obtain a second passport just to run away from some problems,

it's not so simple,

because the government in Guanajuato requires you to have a clean criminal record.

In fact,

this is one of the main requirements you are only eligible for Vanuatu citizenship.

Uh, if you have no serious criminal convictions, so this is the first requirement.

The second requirement is that you need to pay a one off government donation.

The government donation is

100 and $35,000

and it's broken into two stages. Um, so

first out,

the value of the passport is obtained remotely can be remotely

so you don't have any special expenses just travelling to Guanajuato.

Everything can be done via email via telecom via zoom call or a Skype call,

and the 135,000 is broken up into two stages.

So the first stage you pay 5000, and that's a preapproval stage.

This 5000 is not refundable

because that's the fee,

which needs to be paid in order to search your name in

the global database just to cheque if you have no criminal record.

So on that first stage you pay the 5000. You also provide a few documents,

uh, just to show who you are

and that you do not have. And then you do have a clean record.

And once the preapproval stage is finished and you are given a green light,

I would say it's like 99% chance that your passport

will be approved in the stage to I mean,

it will be issued on the stage to you need to pay

100 and $30,000 and provide

the government with certain documents.

The list of the documents is given to you up front.

So even before you decide to go to stage one,

you know exactly what you need to provide and you need at that moment

you need to decide if you are able and willing to provide these documents.

And if you are, then on the, uh, on the stage to comes,

you just provide everything to the government.

Then they have a commission which gathers twice a month.

They consider all the applications, and if they are happy with what they see,

they issue the residents.

The certificate granting the citizenship,

the whole the whole process can take as little as two months

provided, of course that you that you have all the documents ready

for sending,

and once the passport is issued,

it can be sent to you via DHL.

So again, you don't even have to travel to Vanuatu if you don't want to.

Although I would say, Why not? It's a beautiful country

if you think it sounds too easy.

Um, I would say, Yeah, it is easy. It is really quite easy.

It is not.

It's not very bureaucratic,

it's fast and they actually want you to be to become

a citizen and pay the money to the government there.

So to summarise,

the single application cost 100 and 35,000 broken

into stages and as mentioned above earlier,

uh, your spouse, Children, your parents and parents in law can also be included.

There will be additional fee for each family member.

Um, but it's not. Not as much as you know. It's not 100 and 35 per by H H member.

I can give you all the information if you're interested.

So please contact me and ask me any questions you have.

I don't want to put all the fees in here are the ones it will be will be here all day.

Um,

this holistic is working with Vanuatu government appointed designated agent.

Um,

it's very important because Vanuatu does not deal

directly with potential passport holders or passport applicants.

They insist they require that this is done through a government

appointed designated agent Ballistic is working with such an agent.

We have a certificate issued if anyone would like to see And the fees we charge, uh, as

specified by the government, which which are the minimum fees, Uh,

for the for the passport.

If you would like to have a quick, brief consultation with me about this,

And if you have any questions, please contact me here on my contact details.

Uh, I'm available on telegram email.

Also on WhatsApp.

If you would like to know anything more,

please contact me and I will be very happy to speak to you.

I hope the this very short presentation was helpful

and I look forward to hearing from you

and I would like to say good bye for now. Bye.

Second passport - Vanuatu

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