Does Owning Property in Another Country Give Me the Right to Enter It?
Owning a home in another country does not give you the right to enter that country.
Those are two separate things.
I watched families learn this in 2020.
Deeds in hand. Keys in a drawer. Houses all over the world.
Then borders closed.
And they found out the house was theirs. The country wasn’t.
A deed is a property right. Entry is an immigration right. Different rules, different offices, different answers in every country.
So when someone tells me they’re buying a second home overseas, I ask what gives them the right to be there.
Ownership?
A tourist stamp?
Residency?
Citizenship?
Four different answers. Four different levels of protection.
Residency by investment is one way people close that gap. You invest in a country, the country gives you the legal right to live there.
The deed gives you the house. It doesn’t give you the door.
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