Once You Move To A Different Country How Do You Go About Becoming A Citizen

I'm a US citizen who wants to move. What country would be the best to move to?

Norway has a language problem.  If you suck at languages, you're probably not going to have an easy shot at ever getting citizenship.  You say you suck at languages, but you want to go to countries where you will almost certainly need to learn them.  That strikes me as the height of poor planning.You think Australia is not more-or-less the same as Australia.  You're wrong and I'd avoid it if you think England and Ireland are more-the-same as the United States than Australia.  I had really bad culture shock in Ireland, but not so much in Australia because suburbia is suburbia.My radical answer is: Don't leave the United States.  This isn't going to be a popular answer, but you clearly haven't traveled.  You haven't investigated the possibilities already.  You haven't indicated you've looked at visa options.  You haven't expressed a willingness to learn a language because you need to.  Unless you're offered a job by a large transnational, I would wait until leaving the USA.  You don't move to another country because you think it will be better.  It isn't automatically better.  You'll have pretty much the same problems where you go, with the added disadvantage of not knowing the system and not having the language.

What is it like to become the citizen of a country where you were not born?

I was born in India and I lived there until the age of five when my parents moved to England. I don't remember much from my days in India but every year at least once we would go back to India for 3 weeks to visit family. Whenever I come back from India I really do miss it and sometimes wish that I could someday move back but then my mother brings me back to reality by reminding me that I'm on holiday mode and the reality of living in India is a lot different from going there for 3 weeks to meet family and eat out at a restaurant almost every night.Here are a few of the things she points out-how unbearably hot it is over there in summer (I always go in winter were the climate is pleasant)-how stupidly competitive the exams and places for courses are-and all the things I take for granted in the UK - i.e. 24/7 electricity, good roads with less traffic and quicker travelling times, the availability of pretty much everything and the UK's liberal attitude towards most things as well as their strict upholding of the lawHowever what I miss most from India is:-family-great great food-the relaxed attitude Apart from the appalling weather in England I am mostly happy living here. I have a lot of friends here, my entire education has been in this country so I'm fairly settled and a few of my cousins live here. What I miss most is my grandparents and other family members. However a lot of my parents friends from India also live in England so I never feel as if I've been distanced from my cultural heritage. We still regularly celebrate indian festivals at get-togethers and I support India in cricket and England in football.In some ways I'm glad that I live in England because I get to look forward to visiting India once every year.P.s. I've been a naturalised British Citizen for some 8 years now. I also have an OCI card (overseas citizen of India) which allows me visa free entry to India and a guarantee of Indian citizenship if I live there for 1 year.

Can a person renounce their US Citizenship and move to another country to avoid student debt?

I think you have three completely separate but possibly overlapping concepts mixed into one:Can a person renounce their US Citizenship.Can a person move to another country?Can a person avoid student debt?Let’s start with #2, yes! However, depending on the country one moves to the process of obtaining legal residency (like a green card) may not be particular easy (or inexpensive). In general you will have to prove your identity, show you are in good health and have a clean criminal background (from my experiences they don’t look at civil/debt issues).Additionally, you will likely have to show you can support yourself, or are retired with a suitable pension. In some cases if you have a legitimate job offer that is acceptable. However, you are unlikely to get such if the job can be done by a local.I would pretty much consider moving to another country to be completely separate from the other two, but a necessary requirement to renounce.You can renounce your US Citizenship regardless of your situation in the US with respect to debts, criminal cases (paste or ongoing). To renounce your US Citizenship you simply need to do so intentionally, voluntarily, in person and at a US Embassy (ie: outside the US).In doing so, you will lose all your rights as a US Citizen, ie: you won’t be able to enter/live in the US (unless you get a visa/green card). You also have no further obligations to the US.However, it has no effect on existing obligations. Whatever tax debts, student debt, etc exist at the moment of your renunciation will remain until they are resolved.That is not to say that there may be practical implications, ie: you move to a different country (whether you remain a US Citizen or not) and hold no assets in the US, it may well be much more difficult for the student debts to be collected.However, I might ask (not to be insulting), if you can’t pay your student debts, how will you be able to support yourself in another country, or at least show the officials you can?

Is it as easy for an EU citizen to move to another EU country as it is for a US citizen to move to another US state?

Thomas is right that it depends on the country you move to. But yes, most importantly, you can just move and deal with the paperwork afterwards, nothing stops you. The driving license is actually the one thing that you don't have to reapply for but can simply use. In Europe it doesn't double as your identity card / passport.From Germany to the UK, it is fairly easy. As a (shorter-term) student it's zero paperwork, if you want to work and/or stay longer it's more:Get a bank account, because you'll need one in GBP (if you move between EUR countries that's not always necessary any more).Get a National Insurance Number. Just apply online, there might be an interview or not.Register with a doctor, so you're a proper part of the healthcare system and can also get a European Health Insurance Card, which makes things much better when travelling.Depending on where and how you live, there might be council tax you have to deal with.Taxes can be somewhat of a hassle, depending on your income status (i.e. not a big problem for most students). You'll have to make a clean slate in the country you leave. Germany considers the UK a tax haven, so you'll still have to file and pay taxes for up to 10 years after you leave. As Thomas mentioned, you should de-register in Germany, unless you want to have residence in both countries (not a problem, but might have tax implications again). On the other hand, many never do that and in practice there are usually no consequences.All in all, it's become really easy. The paperwork is down to whatever a country wants from its residents and not much more for EU immigrants compared to people who move within that country. And if you're in the system once, you can much easier go back and forth, not having to do many of the above steps.

How long can a British citizen live in another country without coming back to the UK?

Indefinitely, as long as they have tea. Otherwise, about one week after whatever supply they brought with them runs out.Seriously, though: your UK citizenship does not come with an expiry date. No citizenship does. However, they country that you’re in might apply rules for your stay, and these vary from country to country, and might change over time.If you live in the EU, for instance, the rules might change drastically on March 29th, 2019. There have been political declarations to the effect that a solution must be found, and no EU country is going to throw you out summarily on the morning of the 30th. But it is currently unknown what exactly will happen, and it is not completely certain that you will be allowed to stay long term.It might be included in whatever paperwork allows you to stay in the country where you are. You should read it carefully. When you entered the UK in the past as a citizen of any Western European country, you got a stamp that said “Leave to enter for six months, employment prohibited”, which was an excellent summary of the rules that applied: you could stay for six months, but you were not allowed to work. (Again, if you are in the EU, there is no paperwork, as none is needed. At the moment. Come March 29th, this will change. Under current rules, you are free to stay as long as you please.)If you can’t find it out from there, what you need to do is to contact your local British embassy. If nothing else, they know who to ask.