Perhaps, the question “what is so attractive about countries with citizenship “by birthright”?” arises for those who are thinking about giving birth abroad. Let’s try to consider the reasons that motivate future parents to fly across the ocean a month and a half or even a month before giving birth.
7 REASONS TO GIVE BIRTH IN CHILE
1. It is difficult for a modern person to imagine himself without travel and business trips abroad. Moreover, in the current realities, it is not always possible to quickly and easily obtain visas to developed countries such as the USA, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, not to mention hard-to-reach Japan.
But the lucky holder of Chilean citizenship has the right to visa-free entry into more than 160 countries, including all G8 countries. There are also several additional countries that Americans cannot enter without a visa, such as Turkey, Vietnam and Russia. In terms of quality, Chile’s list of visa-free entry countries is better than the US passport.
2. In addition to foreign visits as a tourist, Chile has an agreement with the APEC treaty countries (New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines and a number of others) on the opportunity for Chilean citizens to conduct commercial activities in these countries for 90 days in a visa-free regime with a business passport of these countries.
3. Spain offers interesting options for citizens of Chile. This is an accelerated procedure for obtaining residence permits and citizenship. For obtaining citizenship it is enough to live in the country legally for 2 years under any residence permit other than a student visa.
4. If a Chilean citizen is under 35 years old, he has a special permit for a “working holiday”. It is a special type of visa that is valid during school and student holidays (it happens from December to March in Chile). You can have part-time work during this time. The countries of this agreement are Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
5. Having a Chilean relative will greatly facilitate the process of obtaining a residence permit, if the child’s parents ever want to emigrate to Chile, a country with a mild climate, excellent ecology and good development prospects.
6. You do not have to renounce other citizenships by receiving Chilean citizenship. Moreover, you can get a third passport. Sometimes parents with two citizenships come to us. They transfer both of their citizenships to the child in addition to the Chilean one. For instance, citizenship of Europe or US citizenship.
7. If a Chilean citizen does not live in Chile, they do not pay worldwide tax, as US citizens must do for their entire lives. It is a rather important reason to think carefully about the choice of citizenship for a child. Since if you give birth in the United States, then when the child turns 18 years old, he will be required to annually report and pay taxes to the American Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on all of his worldwide income.
CITIZENSHIP OF CHILE
The most importantly, the baby receives a passport with which he will be able to visit 160 countries of the world without visas, including the USA, EU countries, Japan and the UK by right of birth in Chile.
The Chilean passport ranks 11th in the world, ahead of Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico and Argentina in international rankings. Talking about the prices for “birth tourism”, it is approximately two times lower than the cost of similar services in the USA.
Unfortunately, there are some drawbacks. The official language in Chile is Spanish. If you do not know such a language, you will have to use an interpreter service. However, every year it becomes less and less difficult, since many foreigners live in Chile and there is a company that provides birth support.
We believe that this list will convince skeptics that the desire to go to Chile for childbirth, where citizenship is obtained according to the “right of the soil”, is not a tribute to fashion, but a responsible decision of future parents. After all, a Chilean passport is truly an excellent gift for a newborn and a real concern for the child’s future.
