No flags is slavery.
One passport is opportunity.
Two flags is an introduction to free choice.
How far you go exercising your free choice is, by definition, up to you.
Citizenships can serve different functions. Some countries may have passports providing safer world wide travel. Others may offer government assistance and loans for favored businesses. A few may open doors to mutually profitable relationships that otherwise would be unavailable. There may be a good reason for a bad passport that applies only to you.
The first step for expanding your safety-of-choice is to consider passports you already posses.
If you have no passport, like 95% of Americans, get one. (If you are not already a citizen or long term resident of the USA remove this one from your “to get” passport list – it’s too expensive, too dangerous, and too restrictive of your freedoms.) If you have a passport, judge it’s benefits and limitations as a blueprint for balancing your opportunities. Your next citizenship and passport may be chosen to complement your current ones.
If you have not already started walking a path toward another citizenship, and don’t start on that path today, it is possible you never will. Each step is easy, but you must start walking. The whole world is yours to gain or lose, “The world is a book, and those who don’t travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
You’re missing the best parts of the book!
If you can’t get a passport in your current country, you’ve defined a first stage problem. Address all your attention to resolving this issue. If you still fail, there are many ways to get another country’s passport; cautiously investigate, knowing these alternate-passport-waters are full of sharks. We can give guidance. Getting citizenship in the country your ancestors emigrated from is a first place to look. Go back far enough, we all come from nomadic tribes. Somewhere they may welcome your return to cities descended from villages of wattle and daub, tents, yurts, or lodges.
With a first passport in hand, find what countries are willing to accept you. A passport from a country with a bad reputation may be only good to visit other countries sharing the same reputation problems. One of these however may be a passageway to a more accommodating state. Keep improving your position.
The passport you choose to carry says a lot about you. You have no future except what you were socially conditioned to live unless you start removing your own yoke. The fact that it can take years of residency to earn a new passport says a great deal about your planing for the future (Passports can be acquired quickly, at greater risk and cost, if there is an immediate need. Plan ahead instead). How will you pick your next country?
If you have no safe haven outside your current country for your family and your money this should be a next goal. A warning: don’t chose the country next door – wars and/or refugees can pour over borders making both countries untenable. Your safe haven should require a little travel; consider several routes now – jumping around through several neutral countries may later be required. You don’t need citizenship in a safe haven, but you want to be well established there. You want to be welcomed as a favored son or returning tourist with established banking and business interests when you arrive.
Beyond your safe haven, or second flag, are other countries and playgrounds where you will want to plant other flags. Some countries may be most suitable for certain types of flags. But the first step, as always, is the next step from where you now find yourself. Acquire a first flag, and start searching out a more secure future. Abundance in all things is waiting.
No flags is slavery.
One passport is opportunity.
Two flags is an introduction to free choice.
How far you go exercising your free choice is, by definition, up to you.
Josh Morph