Good luck getting one right now, they fired everyone who’s not a cop
Edit: I’ve been corrected, passports are going it seems. I wonder how visas are…
Even when they run at full capacity it takes about 30 to 90 days for the paperwork to process.
Go get one, it’s only a question of time when you can’t anymore.
And then they’ll stop letting anyone out even if they have one.
That’s why op should get the hell out of there asap.
no it isn’t, but they should get one anyway.
There are already trans people in that situation.
correct.
It’s only a matter of time until they stop letting us out
Best to work on your cardio now as well, if you’ve gotta trek to a destination it’s best to have some endurance.
We’ve got big long borders and a lot of it is incredibly undeveloped.
Sometimes you gotta Von Trapp it.
I just picked up my first passport in my entire life. I’m trying to get away from this hell hole.
it rocks out here, have fun.
Where have you been traveling to? I was thinking euro rail pass and travel Europe.
that’s a great idea, I traveled across Western and Central europe, pretty much all of asia, Australia, India, morocco, I’m in Guatemala right now.
after South America probably I should start on Africa, but the largest inhabited continent is such a massive undertaking that I haven’t got to it yet.
I don’t think Morocco counts, I need that sub-Saharan Safari vibe going on.
Super jelly. That all sounds life changing.
it fucking rocks. shoot me over a message if you ever have any questions, I love talking about this stuff and have helped more than a few people start traveling full time.
Will do!
Incredible to think that something like 65% of Americans have NEVER left the country, not even to Canada or Mexico. More impressive, even, is that like 40% have left their home STATE.
How many live paycheck to paycheck
I imagine that’s a large part of it, yes, but how many don’t, and just CHOOSE to stay in like, Oklahoma or something?
Oklahoma sucks so hard it keeps Texas from falling into the Gulf of Mexico.
I mean, it’s a big country. I assume “Europeans who never left Europe” would be a similar percentage. I’m saying this as someone living in the EU.
The state statistic is more daming and informative I think. For someone without big travel money/time, America does have enough natural beauty (or whats left of it in this world) for most of a lifetime of travel and experince. Someone can be decently traveled, and have some corresponding broad ass horizons without having left the US.
By the time you realize you need to have a passport, you should have already gotten one. I got my first passport in 2000. It took like a week. I lost it and had to get a new one in 2007. I got grilled by Homeland Security in a windowless office about whether or not I was familiar with the terrorist cells in the country I was vacationing in because it was a country with a significant Muslim population. I can’t imagine what it’s like now.
Sign up for some exchange program in a neutral country, buy a round-trip ticket, and just never come back.
Or maybe a psspsspssport?
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.
I renewed my US passport about 6 months ago. I was eligible to renew online. Cost around $130 if I remember correctly. The online process was actually really easy and it came in the mail only a few weeks later (2-3 weeks). Highly recommend renewing online if you meet the eligibility requirements.
Americans are starting to self deport to discover new worlds.
What good would it do? Unless you’re planning to overstay a tourist passport entry and become an illegal in that country?
Do you prioritize not having illegal status in another country over your own ability to stay alive and stay safe?
They deport you. Do you have confidence in evading authorities and working menial jobs under the table for a lifetime?
That’s the point.
not the only two options, you can legally stay in other countries very easily.
idk, maybe hold onto it and hopefully not use it (?)
wow, the comments went really somewhere.
by having a passport you can instantly decrease your cost of living and if you’re a native English speaker, start saving money instantly. there’s great food in other countries and tons to learn, you don’t have to overstay a tourist visa to travel.
that’s the whole point of visas, you legally stay in the country
You are confusing passports and visas.
They are not the same thing.
One is a piece of identification that, if accepted by the destination, allows you temporary entry into the country. That is all.
Visas are very specific for what you are allowed to do, whether it be a student visa, work, or some kind of residency.
I have no idea what you mean by reducing cost of living if your residency is limited and you are paying travel expenses to/from the destination. As far as food goes, yeah, it’s great to experience it, but again no real bearing on the discussion.
“You are confusing passports and visas.”
I’ve been traveling for 15 years, I’m not confusing passports and visas.
“I have no idea what you mean by reducing cost of living”
imagine you have to pay $800 in rent.
that $800 is your cost of living.
imagine that next month you move to a different house that costs $400 in rent.
you move there and now pay $400 per month.
that is a reduced cost of living.
"…travel expenses to/from the destination. "
travel expenses are so low as to be insignificant when compared to the amount of money you save on cost of living while traveling abroad.
I’ve been traveling longer and I travel for a living, not that any of that is relevant considering the differences between the visa and passport are freely available online, yet you handwave that away. You conveniently sidestep travel costs. Maybe they’re easy for you. That’s not the case for many. I can’t believe you skipped past that along with living expenses. There are serious limitations to who can rent/own in some countries, local banks are usually required, asset transfers abroad are limited by the US along with limitations by the destination countries on how much money a foreigner is allowed to hold in an account. Maybe you’re EU where relocation is relatively simple or some other country where CoL is cheap, I can state for a fact that there are plenty of hurdles to relocating from the US to many countries. We are actively exploring it and it is absolutely not as simple as hopping on a plane, renting a flat, and taking in the local cuisine at the cafe on the corner.
if you need any help, I’ve been helping people travel full time for as long as I stated, in stark contrast to your claim of “I’ve been traveling longer” followed by your claim of exploring the options of long-term travel.
unlike you, I have been traveling indefinitely for over a decade and do know what I’m talking about, and I will help you if you want help.
“I’ve been traveling longer”
if you misunderstood my comment enough that you had to look up the difference between passports and visas, then you are certainly not a traveler.
you also said when referring to long-term travel that you are still “exploring it”.
you don’t know what you’re talking about, so don’t make things up.
“You conveniently sidestep travel costs.”
incorrect, I explicitly state that the travel costs are insignificant compared to the savings.
“Maybe they’re easy for you.”
they are easy for most people who care to learn about them.
you clearly do not know anything about travel costs, hence yoir confusion.
you can ask questions instead of trying to attack me without a basic knowledge; it’s not going to work and you’re just going to end up sounding more foolish.
“I can’t believe you handwaved that away along with living expenses.”
that’s because you’re making this about beliefs instead of the facts on the ground.
hostels are $90 a month in Cambodia right now.
what is the cost of your rent and utilities right now?
“There are serious limitations to who can rent/own in some countries”
incorrect us to rent, but if you want to buy a house, don’t buy one in those six countries, there are 200 other countries.
“local banks are requires, asset transfers abroad are limited…”
none of this is correct for what I’ve talked about so far, so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
“by the destination countries on how much money a foreigner is allowed to hold in an account.”
all of your concerns are marginal cases that I haven’t explained yet.
nonetheless, you are wrong about all of them so far.
most countries do not limit how much money you can have abroad.
“can state for a fact that there are plenty of hurdles to relocating from the US to many countries.”
no you cannot, because the facts defy your anxieties.
I’ve been traveling like this a long time, helping other people travel like this, it’s very doable and in every case I’ve come across, easier than their life was in the states.
and again, the facts prove you wrong on their face.
US citizens can travel coun Lisa free or with visa on arrival to 186 countries.
"We are actively exploring it and it is absolutely not as simple as hopping on a plane, renting a flat, and taking in the local cuisine at the cafe on the corner. "
again, you are wrong. it is exactly that easy to start traveling, from the states especially.
if you have a passport, you can sell all of your things, jump on a plane, and start living abroad indefinitely tomorrow.
you don’t have to, no one’s going to make you, but for nearly every native-english speaking American or anyone making more than 500 USD per month remotely, that is an option.
I didn’t post the differences between passport and visa for your benefit. I posted it to encourage others to look for themselves. Differences you haven’t explained yet? Why the fuck are you wasting my time when in three separate posts you choose to “nuh uh bro” me and not explain shit. Useless.
I don’t know what to do with your ridiculous views. The facts surrounding immigration and employment in desirable countries is freely available and plainly place plenty of restrictions and barriers to meaningful long-term residency. It’s designed to be hard.
You keep posting your personal views with zero references.
But mostly, If immigration, residency, and employment in foreign countries was cheap and easy like you say everyone would fucking be doing it all the time, not just desperate boat people with nothing to lose.
I’m done with you.
“I didn’t post the differences between passport and visa for your benefit.”
Would have been foolish to.
"…three separate posts you choose to “nuh uh bro” me and not explain shit. "
I’m very specifically correcting your errors with real-time verifiable data. Which numbers or words don’t you understand?
“I don’t know what to do with your ridiculous views.”
Those are the facts, Jack.
“The facts surrounding immigration and employment in desirable countries is freely available and plainly place plenty of restrictions and barriers to meaningful long-term residency”
Long for a non-sequitir.
“It’s designed to be hard.”
Well, it isn’t.
“But mostly, If immigration, residency, and employment in foreign countries was cheap and easy like you say…”
didn’t say that.
You’re making things up and drawing false conclusions from your make-believies.
It’s very easy to travel indefinitely and save money immediately doing it for native English speakers.
Try to sound out the words when you read them, it’ll help.
'…everyone would fucking be doing it all the time"
the brave and smart ones are. Not to toot, but toot toot.
“I’m done with you.”
You did get wrecked, slow learner but wise to quit while you’re behind.
to get on a boat, that I may or may not need to own, and sail away from here.
Aren’t you afraid other countries will treat you the way Americans are treating others? Why not stay and fix your goddamn country.
We don’t know how. We were told all our lives that voting was the fix, but that system is broken now.
I believe you call it the “second amendment.” We’ve been hearing about how America needw school shootings cause of it for decades.
You know how. Everyone knows how. They’re just too scared of a real fight to go through the methods
other countries treat travelers very nicely. even Vietnam, which is the only country I was kind of nervous about visiting.
staying and fixing the country isn’t really worth it right now, that’s like suggesting someone stay in an abuseive household and “fix” their abusive father.
get out of the house first, go from there.
I have one but it’s been very difficult for me to just sell a bunch of things and get up and go somewhere without any security when I get there.
I speak English und ich lerne ein bisschen Deutsch aber ich spreche nicht gut. I don’t think there exists a place where I knew I could prosper and not worry about being forced to leave within a year or two.
there are a lot of jobs teaching English and German in asia, you can get a work visa, teach 25 hours a week, you’ll save a couple thousand a month and can buy anything you want.
“They’re not sending their best.”
It’s your presidents words by the way.
The USA is but its a pretty low bar. Tons of academics are leaving the country.
“Rapists and murderers”
Yeah I guess we sent those out of the 50 states: and into the District of Columbia.
