wow, EU squatting 101. maybe some of the routes in border xing (http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/borderxing/) might help. :-)
Luke Munn http://window.auckland.ac.nz/ http://window.org.nz/ http://www.myspace.com/theribbonmusic On Feb 4, 2008 10:39 AM, Julian Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ..on or around Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:17:10PM +0000, Damian Stewart said: > > > > hopefully you'll understand something from my ramble and will be able to > > give me some advice. any and all is appreciated. > > [snip] > > really you only have a handful of strategies. here is my ordering of > them: > > 1/ marry someone with an EU passport you both love and love living > with. as soon as the marriage is recognised in both countries you > have the right of residency. permanent citizenship is usually > automatically granted in 2-3 years. > > 2/ seek and get a great job relating to your practice and/or accept > a professorship at a UNI. > > 3/ buy time on working visas doing contract work while you find a > UNI position or job you do like. > > 4/ a mutually agreed upon 'passport marriage': marry someone you > believe you can stand living with for as long as it takes to get > citizenship status. in most cases this is 2-3 years. this is > not-reccommended, barely legal, and afflicted with a high failure > rate. nonetheless you'd be surprised how many people in the EU > would love to have a NZ passport. > > 5/ wing it. this, as you know, is a process of constantly trying to > improve your options. the first start involves a careful choice of > city. > > most Kiwis hide in friendly cities like Berlin and pop out of the > Schengen states into a country like Switzerland to buy another 3 > months stay-credit when they need to. that works very reliably: > while non-sensical it does work on paper - which is where it counts > in a queue at passport control. poor cities (like Berlin) are better > to these ends as they care only that you don't become an economic > burden. bring in money and they'll often let it go if you're from a > 'western' country, preferably white and don't look totally broke. > > Portugal, where you are, is a very good bet if you don't need to > travel too much; it's a long way by (the typically safer) train to > get to continental Europe, as you're well aware. > > if you feel drawn to the great many opportunities afforded by being an > artist in the EU but: can't bear the creeping anxiety born of border > improvisations, shudder at the thought of marriage (in and out of love), > don't want to step back into a UNI or yield as a contract artist-hand, > then yes, you're far better off trying to make it work back in NZ in my > opinion. > > i 'winged it' here before aquiring residency status for several years. > the feeling of not being settled becomes a difficult and compromising > psychological force and one that will only eat at your practice in time. > > going back to NZ won't - from experience - increase your options for > organising residency in the EU unless you have an existing offer of work > and need to submit paperwork while within your 'country of origin'. > i was luckily allowed to apply for a Danish work visa from Brussels and > did not need to return to NZ while the paper work went through. from > what i hear this is far from a rule-bound case. > > given your abilities, ideas and capacity to 'network' i would think > you will soon enough find yourself in a position which grants you the > time you need and/or want here in the EU. that may result in you needing > to wait it out in NZ while sufficient locks of red tape are woven. > > HTH > > julian > > -- > julian oliver > http://julianoliver.com > http://selectparks.net > messages containing HTML will not be read. > > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ > _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
