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BOOFTA
Joined 2015
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Planning to relocate from Oregon, USA to Amsterdam.

9 years ago

Hello!

My wife and I are in our late 20s and planning to start our family soon. We both agree that we'd rather raise our children in the Netherlands (where her family is from) instead of America, based on a plethora of reasons. We make good, stable money in Real Estate and are actively investing in income-producing rentals. Ideally we'd like to create $4,000/mo in passive income through our investment properties before making such a move so that we would not have to immediately find work in the NL. We expect this to take no longer than 5 years from now as we live on very little and have no consumer debt outside of our modest mortgage.

My Dutch fluency is 4/10 and I speak no other languages. Since our timeframe is 4-5 years to make the move, I'm confident my fluency will improve in the interim. My wife is a fast learner and would commit to learning the language if she knew we had a decent chance of legally immigrating.

I am not exactly sure where to start, who to begin talking to, or what the process is. I have found some conflicting information online regarding dual citizenship with the US and the Netherlands. Keeping both would be ideal, but I am not totally opposed to relinquishing my US citizenship. My main concern is that we'd be able to visit America for extended periods of time (3 months annually), and that there would--in theory--be a path to re-establishing US Citizenship if something terrible were to happen (sick or disabled family member, long-term crisis in NL/Europe, etc).

We're take very systematic approach with every venture in our lives and are simply looking for someone to help us figure out the roadmap to relocate permanently to the Netherlands. We want our own immigration story and feel at home in Amsterdam and Tiel (where my wife's extended family lives). We are excited at the idea of starting anew and think this will have a positive, multi-generational impact. If anyone can offer a few pointers, expectations, timelines, whether or not this sounds reasonable, etc, I'd love to start a dialogue!

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