Julian Oliver wrote: > [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.
1/ of course being the option that is the most difficult to arrange reliably ;-) > 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. actually my understanding of how Schengen's 90/180 rule operates is that, at least since the last three or four years, for this strategy to work you'd have to stay in Switzerland for 90 days before going back.. in fact as I understand it it's precisely to avoid this kind of visa run that they implemented the 90/180 rule in the first place. > 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 certainly don't mind being a contract artist-hand. it's doing so with the ability to legally live somewhere permanently when i'm not, is what i'm trying to sort out. > 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. yeah, i know. i have times where i just can't stand it. i was close to buying a flight back to NZ this morning. aargh. -- damian stewart | +351 967 797 263 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] frey | live art with machines | http://www.frey.co.nz _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
