Drop the 'expat' label already. If you're an EEA citizen you have the right to reside across those 30 countries, if you're not then you require a permit which makes you an immigrant, the same way I would be if I went to live in the US, Canada or post-brexit UK. Expat is just an invented marketing term.
@tamaramadelin4831 on top of that and from what I've heard, Portuguese bureaucracy is equally nerve-wracking with applicants from both developed *and* developing countries, the difference is the latter typically have bigger savings/cash reserves to support them during the inevitable limbo when they are waiting for their permit. So it's all the more reasons to ditch the term 'expat' and rather adopt 'EEA residents' and 'and immigrants' for legal reasons.
Invented marketing term? Please allow me to teach you: 'Expatriate' originates from the Latin words 'ex' ('outside of') and 'patria' (one's country). An expat is anyone who left their country or was exiled from it. All expats are migrants, but not all migrants are expats
@@Lisbobexpatsassistant we have the term 'expatriado' in Portuguese as well. Legally speaking it has no relevance, as far as the authorities are concerned you are either an EEA + CH citizen, and therefore you have the right to reside across 31 countries, or you are not, in which case you must ask for a permit. It's a significant difference because, as anyone who has lived in Portugal can confirm, PT bureaucracy can drive even the locals insane. Using the term 'expat' rather than 'immigrant' *has* a marketing connotation in our time, as it directs perceptions towards middle/upper middle-class people, preferably from developed countries. I saw exactly the same thing when I lived in Belgium, with the use of 'expats' being channelled towards upper income people, irrespective of their citizenship. The law doesn't care: if you are a citizen from outside the 31 countries' bloc where you have the right of free movement, you are an immigrant.
Drop the 'expat' label already. If you're an EEA citizen you have the right to reside across those 30 countries, if you're not then you require a permit which makes you an immigrant, the same way I would be if I went to live in the US, Canada or post-brexit UK. Expat is just an invented marketing term.
I agree! I am an immigrant not an expat...Here for the long-term!!
@tamaramadelin4831 on top of that and from what I've heard, Portuguese bureaucracy is equally nerve-wracking with applicants from both developed *and* developing countries, the difference is the latter typically have bigger savings/cash reserves to support them during the inevitable limbo when they are waiting for their permit. So it's all the more reasons to ditch the term 'expat' and rather adopt 'EEA residents' and 'and immigrants' for legal reasons.
@jpnihil5868 My husband is French and we did it all as in no lawyers or representatives! #proud immigrant
Invented marketing term? Please allow me to teach you: 'Expatriate' originates from the Latin words 'ex' ('outside of') and 'patria' (one's country). An expat is anyone who left their country or was exiled from it. All expats are migrants, but not all migrants are expats
@@Lisbobexpatsassistant we have the term 'expatriado' in Portuguese as well. Legally speaking it has no relevance, as far as the authorities are concerned you are either an EEA + CH citizen, and therefore you have the right to reside across 31 countries, or you are not, in which case you must ask for a permit. It's a significant difference because, as anyone who has lived in Portugal can confirm, PT bureaucracy can drive even the locals insane.
Using the term 'expat' rather than 'immigrant' *has* a marketing connotation in our time, as it directs perceptions towards middle/upper middle-class people, preferably from developed countries. I saw exactly the same thing when I lived in Belgium, with the use of 'expats' being channelled towards upper income people, irrespective of their citizenship.
The law doesn't care: if you are a citizen from outside the 31 countries' bloc where you have the right of free movement, you are an immigrant.
"Expats" 🤣
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