Day: May 27, 2019

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country. Plus,if you hold dual citizenship – or have resident status in one and citizenship in another – it is possible that you will have to pay taxes to two countries. One way around this tax trap,according to some experts,is leaving your ‘second home’ country regularly and reapplying for a tourist visa.

However,that is not without its own issues,and raises the issue of whether you are permitted to work in your new foreign country.

Needless to say,you just have to talk with lawyers,tax advisors (and sometimes other experts) in both locations before making a final choice.

So,if you are interested in a developed country,the five listed below are ones in which establishing permanent residency is fairly easy.

Belgium

Living in Belgium for five years on the trot whilst also being a Swiss national or citizen of an EU/EEA country,will automatically grant you permanent resident status. If you aren’t a citizen of one of those countries,you will have to apply to be a resident. The advantages of this is that it gives you the many of the privileges and rights of a Belgian citizen,such as voting,open access to employment,social programs (including welfare) as well as education.

Becoming a citizen also adds the ability to leave the country for more than two years at a time,but the requirements for citizenship are much more rigorous.

Brazil

The great beauty and climate of this nation makes it a good option for lots of people,though the cost of living is greater than you might expect and the high crime rate is another thing that may make you consider again. Getting permanent residency if you are over 60 years old is easy if you have a verifiable income of $2,000 per month for the retiree and up to two dependents. Additional dependents require another $1,000 per month. If you plan to invest $50,000 or more in a business or real estate,you should apply for an Investor’s Visa.

Becoming a citizen of Brazil is harder,unless you marry a Brazilian citizen. Otherwise you have to have resided in the country continuously for 10 to 15 years. However foreign spouses may apply after one year of permanent residency.

France

If you like the idea of living in France this another great choice. You can establish permanent residency or apply for citizenship just by living in the country for 5 continuous years. Permanent residency has to be renewed after 10 years,this also allowing you the right to education,healthcare and worker’s rights at jobs. You will not be able to vote though. Obtaining citizenship also makes you a citizen of the EU,with its many benefits.

Panama

This country was ranked the world’s greatest retirement place for 2019 by International Living.

It has an easy immigration system,a good climate and a reasonable cost of living,all of which make Panama an attractive option. All you have to do is request access to the Pensioned Tourist Program and prove you have at least $1,000 or more per couple per month coming in from an approved source. You do not get a Panamanian passport on this visa,but you do get to establish permanent residency.

If you’re not old enough for retirement and you are a citizen of one of 50 “friendly” countries – which include many EU countries,Canada and the US – then you can request a Panama’s “Friendly Nations” Visa. This visa was created to attract a useful workers to Panama. However,you have to establish a company within the country or have a job offer from a company in Panama.

Panama also welcomes those who have the money to put into deforestation programs. Citizenship is however a little more difficult to get,often only being obtained after five continuous years of residency (three years for foreign spouses of Panamanian citizens).

Singapore

Singapore is one of the easiest countries in the World to establish permanent residency. The ways in are to apply for an employment pass,be the spouse or child of a Singapore citizen,or just plan to make an investment in the nation. Becoming a citizen of the country is also reasonably simple,the criteria being that you just have to be a permanent resident of Singapore for two or more years.

To sum up

The rules of every country normally mean that a permanent residency visa will solve most of the day-to-day issues any expat faces. However,taking the next step of becoming a citizen of another country,especially if it means renouncing your own,rather than taking on dual nationality – is a very big step,with lots of implications for yourself and for your family.

You have to bear in mind that even if your own country permits dual nationality,your new home country may not,so full detailed advice and research is a must.

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Trying to keep up with web design trends is hard since it’s such a fast changing field. Barely a week goes by without the release of a new JS framework,elaborate build tool or testing suite all of them touted as the one to learn.

Sorting the hype from the genuinely useful is no mean feat,so my aim here is to summarise some of the most interesting happenings in web development in the last year,and what things we expect to see more of in 2019

Looking Back on 2018: SPA,CSS Grid,and Speed Single Page Applications (SPAs) saw a leap in popularity in 2018.

A simple concept made possible by the power of modern Javascript,a SPA loads a page once then never reloads it or navigates to another page; instead,Javascript is used to manipulate the DOM and render updated layouts in the browser.

It can provide a much better experience to the user and really transform the responsiveness of a site. It’s an idea that’s been about for a while but really saw a lot of developer engagement last year.

It’s fair to say that when HTML and CSS were created,they were not designed to handle the modern web. Hence,CSS preprocessors and libraries are rife,because they provide a more abstract,convenient interface.

2018 brought the widespread adoption of a native CSS grid,supported by all major browsers; a fantastic deal for headache-free aligning.

Backend Changes Expected in 2019:

So,what are some of the backend/server-side changes we can expect to see in 2019.

Containers

Containers are certainly not a new idea,but it’s a thing which is growing so fast that it’s impossible to ignore. Today,rapid deployment is the thing you need,which means your backend/server needs a consistent,repeatable environment. The goals of this is to make development,testing,and production easy.

Serverless computing

Serverless computing allows you to write and deploy code without ever touching the underlying code. Anyone who has deployed a website after manually setting up servers,load balancers,you will understand how much time configuring infrastructure can take.

Frontend Changes in 2019.

Vue.

Vue’s remarkable recent success is set to continue. It’s done so well because it implements exactly what developers need,in a very lightweight package.

Is this the death of server-side rendering? In the past,the standard way to create a website was to render all the files server-side before sending them to the user,using PHP and ASP.

Then Javascript frameworks/libraries started benig used,slowly at first,then in a deluge. More and more parts of web applications moved client-side over the years,and now it’s common practice to create a Single Page Application entirely in the browser.

That doesn’t mean that server-side rendering isn’t used today,far from it; many new applications continue to use it because it fits well with their requirements. However,while server-side rendering is conceding ground these days,it’s still a good fit for a large number of sites so it is not going anywhere for now.

Progressive Web Apps (PWA).

There are some interesting data on apps vs websites on mobile devices. The data shows mobile sites receive about 12x as many visitors as apps,users spend roughly 20x longer on apps than mobile sites. So what if there was a way to get the user engagement of an app without the friction of installing one?

A Progressive Web App,or PWA,is simply a name for a website which fulfills a set of requirements and best practices,predominantly for mobile use. PWAs should load reliably and load fast,with easy navigation and identical feel to a native app.

They are designed to be used on the home screen of mobile devices and are capable of operating offline. Google is a big fan of PWAs; Chrome automatically prompting users to add a website to their mobile home screen if it meets the PWA criteria.

2019 is set to be an interesting year for web developers and users,with exciting technologies both at the front-end and back-end.

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