EDIT (4/20/21): I am occasionally updating this post at this linked Google Doc with new information. You may wish to instead read this post there. Introduction Over the past few years, I’ve gained an interest in securing options for residency outside of my home country, in particular via second citizenship. There are a number of potential benefits that can arise from having a second residency option. These include professional and education opportunities, other economic opportunities, the ability to mitigate a variety of potential risks via relocation, travel benefits, and the potential extendability of these benefits to a spouse, descendants, or in rare cases friends and colleagues. In this post I: 1. Share the reasons I’ve identified for securing a second residency 2. Provide thoughts on planning for a soon upcoming, largely unexpected departure 3. Describe long-term options for alternative residency 4. Share my knowledge and experience toward securing a second citizenship 5. Provide the lessons I’ve learned in pursuing genealogy for the purposes of securing a second residency 6. Share some other related topics I may write about in the future as an extension of this post and offer to help or connect people interested in securing second residencies Notes and Disclaimers 1. The original version of this post was written in early October 2020 and commissioned by the Center For Applied Rationality (CFAR). It has been somewhat reorganized for publication on this forum. 2. This document is written nearly entirely off memory. As a result, it is likely that there are significant mistakes. It’s worth validating anything in here that you plan to act on. 3. It is also written as a first-pass, optimizing for sharing the information with minimal time-investment. There may be cases of imprecise language, and inconsistencies in presentation or organization, as a result. 4. I’ve pursued this topic out of personal interest, without an expectation that I would end u