Guides
The Swiss residence permit, step by step
What the forms want, in the order that saves you a month.
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The cover story
You don’t need permission to live everywhere.
The world tells you to pick one country and defend the choice. I picked four, earned papers in six, and kept the same ground under my feet the whole time. This publication is the working record: the journeys, the paperwork, and the life they add up to.
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Where the stage has taken me
Hover or tap a country. Gold marks the places I call home.
Lugano, Switzerland
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Citizenships
United States · Greece · Italy
One by birth, two by descent. The consulate visits and the archive requests are written up in Heritage.
Residence permits earned
Switzerland · Japan · Argentina
Approved on three continents, under three different systems. Switzerland is home today, and Japan and Argentina are the worked examples.
The consult
A strategy session
Your situation, your realistic routes, and a written plan, in one private session.
The journal
Volume I
Guides for the paperwork, Heritage for the citizenships, and Field notes for the life in between.
Resources
Work through it on your own
The checklists and document maps behind the guides, for readers who prefer to do the route themselves.
The Swiss residence checklist
Every document the permit office asks for, in the order it asks.
Citizenship by descent: the document map
Which records prove the line, where each one lives, and how to request it.
The relocation planner
The first ninety days in a new country, sequenced: housing, banking, healthcare, and tax.
Readers’ words
From the people I’ve pointed the way
The first readers’ words will appear here as Volume I goes out.
A client’s account of the route we mapped together.
The back page
Private guidance, one reader at a time.
For anyone planning a second residency, a second citizenship, or a life in more than one country. One private session maps your route before you file anything, so you don’t lose months to the wrong form, the wrong consulate, or one missing stamp.