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Know More: About ExPatFacts, Author My name is Matt Ellsworth.  I’m an American.  And I have been an expat (short for expatriate from the Latin ex patria, meaning “out of the fatherland”) for more than 8 years.  [Sounds like a confession in a 12-step program, no?] I first left the U.S. in 1975, spending two…

I have again received a comment from an anonymous source, and once again I have let it stay because it is pertinent and well-reasoned.  While I prefer for sources to name themselves, I’ll happily accept knowledge from any source.  I must, however, take exception to the suggestion made by Anonymous that all comments should be…

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The Associated Press has circulated yet another heart-warming story about Iraqi children who were brought to the U.S. for life-saving medical treatment.  It made page A12 of my local paper.  It also provided one answer to the question I posed about family members in my earlier entry.  The article says, “The children and their fathers…

If you’re heading overseas for an extended stay, you will want to have a good strategy for converting your money into the local currency.  (I’m assuming that you will not be paid in the local currency, which is standard practice for international companies.)  It’s important to learn before you go where to keep your money…

Estimates on the number of ExPats in the United States illegally range from 10 million to 25 million.  Why so many?  Why don’t they just come in legally?  Well, the short answer is “if they could, they would.”  There are huge incentives to draw people to America.  It’s a rich country with lots of opportunities…