Full 180: Guide to International Relocation

Inside the course

Ten chapters. Zero filler.

Every chapter covers something you need to understand before you can make a good decision. Watch in order, or open the one that answers the question keeping you up tonight.

CH-01

Why People Move Abroad

The real reasons behind relocation and the honest math underneath each one. Tax burden, cost of living, personal safety, political exposure, and the quality of life difference that shows up in a household budget rather than in a brochure.

CH-02

How Travel and Residency Work

Visa categories, entry stamps, temporary and permanent residency tracks, and the timing rules that decide when a country starts treating you as one of its own.

CH-03

Choosing Where to Live

A selection framework rather than a list of favorites. Residency difficulty, tax treatment, banking access, healthcare, language, distance from family, and how to weigh factors that pull against each other.

CH-04

Planning Your Finances

What the move costs before it saves you anything. Setup expenses, residency fees, professional costs, and how to build a realistic two-year runway instead of an optimistic one.

CH-05

Handling Your Money Abroad

Foreign accounts, transfers, currency risk, card access, and the reporting obligations that attach to a United States person holding money outside the country.

CH-06

Working or Running a Business Abroad

Remote employment, client work across borders, local entities, and the question of where your income is actually sourced. Includes the structures that hold up and the ones that create problems a year later.

CH-07

Adapting to Life Abroad

The first ninety days, the paperwork nobody warns you about, building a professional network from zero, and the adjustment period most people are told does not exist. It exists. Plan for it.

CH-08

Moving with Family

Dependent residency, school selection, healthcare for children and older parents, custody considerations, and the conversations that need to happen before the deposit is paid.

CH-09

Preparing to Move

Document apostilles, translations, background checks, medical records, shipping decisions, and the sequenced checklist that runs from twelve months out down to the final week.

CH-10

Starting the Move

Arrival, registration, the first bank account, the first lease, the first tax year, and the thirty, sixty, and ninety day checklists that keep the residency application on track.

The framework

Five flags. One strategy.

Each flag moves one part of your life out of a single state's reach. Moved together, they change what any single government can require of you.

Flag 01

Citizenship

What a passport actually buys you, how a second one is acquired through descent, naturalization, or investment, and what the exit rules look like if you ever decide one citizenship is one too many.

Flag 02

Residency

Tourist status, temporary residency, permanent residency, and the tax residency rules that decide which country gets to call you a taxpayer. The distinction most people miss until it costs them.

Flag 03

Business

Where a company is formed, where it is managed, and where its income is sourced. Running a business from abroad while keeping clients at home.

Flag 04

Assets

Banking outside your home country, currency exposure, custody, self-custodied digital assets, and reporting obligations. The difference between holding assets somewhere and hiding them somewhere.

Flag 05

Domicile

The flag nobody talks about and the one that follows you longest. State domicile, estate exposure, and the paperwork that decides whether you actually left or only think you did.

The line

Avoidance, never evasion

Every method in this course is lawful, documented, and reportable. Reducing what you owe by structure is legal. Concealing what you owe is a crime. That line is stated plainly and repeatedly.

Who built it

I did not study this. I did it.

I am Christian M. Frank Fas, a United States attorney with eighteen years of practice concentrated in immigration and commercial litigation. In 2021 I relocated permanently and ran my practice from the road the entire way.

On April 30, 2010, Puerto Rico regulators closed three banks in a single day. Westernbank, R-G Premier, and Eurobank. I spent years inside the litigation that followed, across the table from business owners and families whose money, income, and legal life were all held inside one system on the day that system stopped working. None of them had a second anything. That is the case I have been arguing ever since, only now I argue it before the bad week rather than after it.

18 yrs practiceSJU · PTY · SJOLeft 2021Ran it on my own file first

Plate 08 · the paperwork that decides things

Questions

Before you register.

What does it cost?

Nothing. The course is free. Registration is required so the chapters stay tied to an account, and so I can tell you when material changes.

Is this legal or tax advice?

No. Full 180 is educational. It does not create an attorney-client relationship with me, with Expat Expert, or with any affiliated entity. My legal background is why the material is accurate. It is not what you are receiving here. For advice on your own facts, retain a licensed professional in the relevant jurisdiction.

Who is it built for?

Business owners, remote professionals, investors, and anyone whose income and assets currently sit inside one country and who would prefer that they did not. The material assumes you are capable and busy. It does not assume you already know the terminology.

Do I need to give up my citizenship?

No. Renunciation is covered because it is a real option with real consequences and it deserves to be understood rather than whispered about. Most people never go that far. A second residency and a properly structured banking setup solve the majority of what people are actually worried about.

I am not ready to move. Is this still useful?

Yes, and that describes most people when they start. Building options takes eighteen months to three years. Beginning now costs nothing and puts the option on the table for the year you decide you want it.

How long does it take?

More than seven hours of instruction across ten chapters. Some people finish in a weekend. Others take a chapter a week. The material stays available either way.

Full 180.
Free.