How Hard Is It To Get a Tourist Visa to the USA From the Philippines? (Updated 12 July 2019) Here’s a typical comment that gets posted here at PhilFAQS, where you can learn how to move to and profit in the Philippines. Over the past 15 years, I have heard and seen so many stories …
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Happy Fourth of July (Updated 4 July 2019) Yes, indeed I have been AWOL from the site here a long time. As we were taught in the military, the “excuse” is, “No Excuse, Sir”. Everything is going well for me, but life has been happening … that’s all I can say Took A Little Vacation/Rejuvenation …
Can a US citizen move to the Philippines? (Updated 16 June 2019) The answer to that question is a resounding YES. I’ve been reading about, writing about and actually living a move to the Philippines for nearly 13 years now. It only struck as strange very recently how complicated and obscure my writing and most …
Why Choose the Philippines — Is Malaysia a Better Choice? (last updated 27 April 2019) I originally wrote this about 8 years ago. It was in response to a lot of mail I was receiving on the subject of what country was “best” to live in for US expats. At the time, Malaysia was advertising The Malaysia …
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Why Choose the Philippines — Is Thailand a Better Choice? (Updated 26 April 2019) Why choose the Philippines? That’s a very good question. Why choose the Philippines instead of the Kingdom of Thailand for retirement, or just an escape from the western world rat race? I notice many, many other internet marketing folks as I …
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Moving to The Philippines from the USA (Updated 25 April 2019) Why would anyone ever search Google for the phrase”Moving to The Philippines from the USA “? Well, there’s a lot of possible reasons, but one that comes to mind right away is geographic arbitrage. Geographic Arbitrage Geographic Arbitrage (which I’ll call Geotrage from now …
Philippine Senior Citizen Discount Card. (Updated 25 July 2019) IMPORTANT UPDATE AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE Please Read and Watch Basic Question Often Asked is, Can A Foreigner Avail Of The Philippine Senior Discount Program? Basic answer: No. OK, I’m sure many of you living here in the Philippines want to know more than …
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Yes, A Filipina Needs a Visa to Enter the USA. (Updated 27 January 2019) The title above should be authored by our old friend “Captain Obvious”. Everybody knows that Filipinos ALL need some form of US visa to enter the USA. Or at least everybody “should” know that. But lately, I’ve been getting more and more irritated …
Reader Thoughts on Retiring in the Philippines. (Updated January 11, 2019) Here’s a great comment I received from a reader. I wanted to make some additional comments and a couple of slight corrections, so I did, marked in blue. Food is exempt of the 12% sales tax and many stores in the provinces don’t apply …
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Are you thinking of Moving to the Philippines to Retire? (Updated 8 January 2019) Are you one of those folks who is thinking about moving to the Philippines to retire? Perhaps to stretch that ever-shrinking fixed retirement income. Perhaps to get away from ice and snow and cold forever. Perhaps just for a change of …