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That's not really fair. This reflects the current decision (which may change) of Biden and NATO that direct conflict with Russia is too high a risk for total nuclear war.

Well Putin obviously doesn't care about the conscripts he's sending to Ukraine to be cannon fodder, and shooting the ones that decide to go back. But perhaps many of these Russkie expat types are higher status.

Easier said than done when your enemy is a terrorist war criminal capable of anything.

Cali is one of the extreme examples but the issues in this topic are national in scope. Obviously you can find some God forsaken small town backwaters where market rate housing is relatively low but then you're dealing with places with no or very few rentals, no amenities, neighbors that won't accept you, the need to run a car and usually very long drives for shopping and medical care beyond basic.

As previously noted you get no receipt.

I wonder if anyone can point me to the part of immigration law that says you get extensions by following a set of onerous financial requirements to the letter (so as to prevent fraud by the applicant) OR Pay an officer a healthy pile of cash via an "agent" and forget about following any stinkin' financial rules.

The hatred should be focused on the evil dictator Putin not the Russian people. We are aware that Putin is the most dangerous man in the world literally threatening nuclear war. Yes we are aware of Donbas. We are aware that evil dictator Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014 and stole Crimea. We are aware of a rebel movement in Donbas incited by evil dictator Putin and many Russian national operatives. Yes there have been many casualties in this conflict on both sides. Its normal for any country to fight separatist rebels, da? But evil dictator Putin.is on record that in his perverted world view Ukraine doesn't even exist as a nation. Now this war criminal villain is targetting civilians even schools and hospitals and literally leveling entire cities. The Russian language is not illegal in Ukraine. No decent person Russian or otherwise who isn't brainwashed with Kremlin propaganda lies can possibly support this horrific WAR of choice done by evil dictator Putin.

The titles are mildly amusing but I can't bring myself to read the first posts.

Washpo allows a number of free articles per month so it is not a strict paywall.

Yes. Its very frustrating.

Very interesting de-Nazification methods.

Barracuda 4 part tv series About swimming competition and class conflict in Australia

Because trump wanted the US to exit NATO and Putin expected him to do that if reelected. Next ....

Then maybe use an agent.

Up to you Not for me and I don't recommend to others.

LOL

Point Of View

I understand your POV.

I've never used an agent fixer and wouldn't unless desperate. Why? Legal grey area You're involving yourself in corruption Always a possibility of a crackdown at your office Horror stories like Agent runs off with passports and money Agent doesn't return phone calls Agent loses passport Agent uses another non local office messing up your 90 day address reports People feeling locked into the agent system once started Last but not least - People that use agents aggressively trying to sell others on using agents. Reminds me of bitcoin pushers.

Maybe. I'm not yet convinced that China will actually get involved in that way.

Legacy? Schmegacy. He won't the Putin the Great, he'll be Putin the Terrible. He took a big gamble and it badly backfired. That is already clear. He's a dead dictator walking. What will it be? Internal coup? Libya style? To the Hague?

Agreed. My argument for paying for B is that even for people that never intend to move back, changing your mind can happen.

Being that close to the bone is simply not viable for the 65k income method. One baht under for one month spoils the entire application. Expats enroll in free Medicare A and not free B. All should join A. Neither A or B are usable abroad but if you opt out of B you will be screwed if you do repatriate.

They are completely clear though still onerous and silly for the 800k method. For the combo method method when accepted at all such clarity is muddied.

For 800k method: At least 800k before extension applications for two months At least 800k after extension applications for three months At least 400k for the other seven months A combo application is a type of bank application so balance rules however interpreted by an office for combos applies. There also might be an overall minimum balance for combos as well as enforced by that office.