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I am from Brazil, living in Brazil, have accounts in Brazil, and so on. And got stuck for a while in a similar loop when I decided to get married. The marriag
by speeder 5y ago
I am from Brazil, living in Brazil, have accounts in Brazil, and so on.
And got stuck for a while in a similar loop when I decided to get married.
The marriage office wanted me to prove my residence, and it had to be MY residence, not partner, not parents, it had to be mine.
Meanwhile the places I attempted then to rent to fix the previous issue, wanted proof I had a high enough income to rent them, but wouldn't accept my future wife contribution to it properly.
The deadlock was broken only when one day the broker called me, saying some dude was offering his apartment for a really cheap rent because it was an emergency for him. (his mom got cancer and he decided to live with her and use the rent money to help pay her treatment)
I accepted, and had to live in the apartment alone for some 2 months before I could go register my marriage.
If it wasn't for my landowner misfortune I wouldn't been able to get married.
Then right after got stuck in another loop: I was candidate for council elections once, the party lawyer promised to take care of everything for me, but he didn't, despite the fact I spent 0 money and got 0 donations, government decided I was potentially corrupt and took away my voting rights (and in Brazil this means you basically become a non-citizen, you can't get a passport, certain IDs, participate in competitions and so on).
I found that out AFTER I married and took my new wife to the voting office to change her name in the registry. So I went to see how to get my citizen rights back, and found out a need a lawyer, it is mandatory, you can't just represent yourself to send the missing documents, you need a lawyer. So I need money, so I need a job (I have a company but not enough money for lawyer, wnated extra money). Then I found out to get a job legally, you need to have the voting rights.
I am breaking now this deadlock by getting hired by a foreign company instead, then I will use the money I get working from the foreign company to pay the lawyer.
But it made me wonder, I am fortunate, what about people that don't work with stuff that allow them to get a remote job with a foreign company? Will them be forever non-citizens?