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Expat Focus Financial Update May 2020

US expats receive erroneous checks May has seen reports of American expats who have renounced their citizenships getting CARES Act stimulus payments, in addition to foreign workers living overseas. Politico.com says that “thousands of foreign workers, many living overseas” have

Expat Focus International News Update April 2020

The international news of issues affecting expats has obviously been dominated by one thing in the last month, but the pandemic has had some knock on effects, mainly related to travel. We will look at some of the problems that

Expat Focus International Healthcare Update April 2020

There’s only really one topic of conversation about health matters at the moment and we all know what it is: Covid 19. We will take a look below at some of the concerns that might be affecting you this month.Accessing

Expat Focus Financial Update April 2020

The biggest global news story in April has, of course, been Covid 19. The viral pandemic has impacted all aspects of expat financial life, from ease of business travel and meetings, to the problems of being furloughed or paying your

Expat Focus Brexit News Update April 2020

Whilst Covid 19 is still taking a lot of the oxygen out of European and British news, issues relating to Brexit remain ongoing. At the moment, we are still part way through the transition period, having come out of the

Expat Focus International News Update March 2020

British visitors to Spain advised to ‘get out while you still can’ Spain has been badly affected by the Covid-19 outbreak and Britons who have been visiting the country have been advised by the FCO to return home while they

Expat Focus International Healthcare Update March 2020

Health around the world has been dominated this month by the outbreak of Covid-19, which is taking up most of the healthcare bandwidth in the news at the moment. It is advisable to check out your host nation’s government website

Expat Focus Financial Update March 2020

UAE expats hope for financial security Global consultancy Mercer has released a report in the last month which shows that 45% of expats in the UAE either have no plans which will secure them a reasonable standard of living after

Expat Focus Brexit News Update March 2020

So the big news story this month is, just for a change…not Brexit. With regard to the latter, we are still in a holding pattern: Britain’s departure from the EU has gone ahead at the end of January but has

Expat Focus International Healthcare Update February 2020

A primary concern for Britons living in the EU with regard to healthcare is, of course, Brexit. The UK has now officially left the EU, at the end of January 2020, and the country is now in a transition period