5/5
Citizenship by ancestry, handled end-to-end
We worked with Leon on our citizenship by ancestry case. It could not have been made more easy or with more attention to detail. Guidance every step of the way. Thx.
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Visit AnticitizenAnticitizen is a membership-based advisory service that helps individuals and families obtain second citizenships, foreign residency permits, and legally reduce their tax burden through international structuring. Founded by a team of immigration lawyers, tax strategists and former consular officers, the company operates on a flat-monthly subscription model rather than charging five- or six-figure fees per case.
Members are paired with dedicated caseworkers who guide them through jurisdiction-specific programmes: Italian and Polish citizenship by descent (jure sanguinis), Spanish and Portuguese non-lucrative visas, UAE free-zone company formation for tax residency, and Caribbean citizenship-by-investment routes. The service also covers offshore banking introductions, document procurement (apostilles, sworn translations, archive requests) and compliance preparation for consular interviews.
Unlike traditional high-net-worth migration consultancies, Anticitizen publishes fixed pricing, provides self-service checklists, and shares historical processing timelines by consulate and by country. This transparency is frequently cited in reviews as a key reason members chose the service over legacy firms.
Anticitizen does not sell passports directly, nor does it guarantee approval — government decisions remain at the discretion of immigration authorities. What the service promises, according to its terms, is end-to-end document guidance, jurisdiction selection advice, and ongoing caseworker support until a final decision is reached.
We worked with Leon on our citizenship by ancestry case. It could not have been made more easy or with more attention to detail. Guidance every step of the way. Thx.
Sat on a folder of half-collected certificates for years. After the March 2025 jure sanguinis reform I assumed I'd missed the boat — but my grandfather was born in Italy, so I still qualified under the new two-generation rule. The Italy-specific caseworker told me exactly which comune to write to, how to phrase the non-renunciation letter, and which documents the consulate would actually accept post-reform. Everything on my side is done — now a waiting game.
Used the NLV checklist line by line. Apostilled FBI background check, sworn translations, proof of passive income, private health insurance — every single document was right on the day. Consular officer barely had questions. Now in Valencia.
I had been paying nearly half my income to the Swedish state for the better part of a decade — and genuinely thought there was no way out without completely destroying my consulting practice. Every tax adviser I spoke to either told me to just pay up or proposed structures that were so obviously aggressive they'd collapse under scrutiny. Anticitizen was the first place where someone actually laid out a clean, legal, step-by-step path. The plan was three-fold: first, unwind my Swedish tax residency properly (which is not as simple as just leaving — Sweden has a habit of following you); second, set up a UAE freezone company with genuine economic substance; third, restructure my client contracts and invoicing so the income landed in the right place at the right time. What surprised me was the level of detail in the substance requirements. It wasn't just 'open a company in Dubai and hope for the best.' We had to show actual office space, local hiring considerations, board meetings held in the jurisdiction, and a proper justification for why the business was based there. The caseworker walked me through each document, reviewed my lease agreement before I signed, and even gave me a checklist for the immigration medical that saved me a wasted morning. Year-one tax savings were roughly $180,000 against a $33 monthly membership. The break-even was about four days. What I valued even more was the peace of mind: when the Swedish Skatteverket inevitably sent a follow-up questionnaire six months later, I had every document ready, every date documented, and every requirement satisfied. No drama, no penalties, no surprises. If you are a Northern European high earner who thinks you're stuck, you're probably not.
My total timeline with Anticitizen: 6 weeks to offshore my business that's got the result of me paying 0% tax, 3 months for a residence permit that's already been issued, and a year to a new passport. Just do it!
I'll be straight with you because I wish someone had been straight with me: Americans have the hardest cards in this game. Citizenship-based taxation means the IRS follows you everywhere. FATCA makes banks nervous about opening accounts. And if you ever want to renounce, the exit tax can be brutal if you haven't planned years ahead. I came into Anticitizen looking for the silver bullet. There isn't one. What I got instead was a three-year roadmap that is actually honest about what is possible and what is not. Year one: maximise the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE), which knocked $130,000 off my taxable income immediately (the 2025 cap). The caseworker caught a mistake in my prior year's filing that my CPA had missed, and we amended it. Year two: Panama residency under the Friendly Nations framework, which gives me a solid Latin American base — temporary residency first, then permanent, then a long path to naturalisation. Year three: my Irish grandmother's lineage, which qualifies me for Irish citizenship by descent via the Foreign Births Register — an EU passport without giving up the US one. None of this is fast. None of it is sexy. But for the first time in years I feel like I have actual options rather than just hoping the US tax situation gets better. If you are an American, do not expect a magic wand. Expect a patient team that understands your constraints better than most US-based advisers do.
Opened accounts in Georgia, Singapore and Liechtenstein over the last twelve months using their playbooks. Each one came with the actual branch, the documents to bring, and what to expect in the compliance interview. Two opened day-of, the third needed a follow-up that they prepped me for.
My case for a second citizenship was quite complicated to say the least; a strange family history, lost documents, names spelled differently on birth certificates, a marriage and divorce which made tracing my ancestry a little difficult, among many other things. I had basically given up hope through the pathway I thought was open to me for another passport. Thankfully these guys figured out that was by far not my only option to get citizenship, and quite quickly I might add. The whole thing was professional and easy.
My English is not perfect so I was little nervous to join. Caseworker was patient, explained slowly the confirmation of Polish citizenship procedure and which archives we needed — civil records in the local USC and the older pre-war files held at AGAD in Warsaw. After 13 months I have official confirmation through the voivode. For my children also. I am very grateful, was worth every złoty.
Joined to restructure a small EU SaaS business and explore residency options outside Schengen. The European tax briefings are very current, even on niche topics like the Czech 'paušální daň' interaction with foreign income. I have moved my tax residency cleanly and my company is now properly structured. Recommended.
I came in fixed on one particular Caribbean programme. The caseworker patiently walked me through visa-free differences, due-diligence reputation, and which developments were actually approved versus quietly delisted. Ended up choosing a different country entirely and saved roughly $40k in fees. Passport issued in five months.
Its so obvious the west is over. I never wanted to leave but I think its more and more obvious the peak of the empire is over, the writing is on the wall. My experience with Anticitizen has been excellent - I don't have my new passport yet but my documents have already passed pre approval so the process is well under way. I expect to be a citizen of Argentina in 6 to 12 months from what we have heard and the wife and kids will soon follow.
Portugal keeps tightening rules and the weekly briefings kept warning about it. I dragged my feet. By the time I applied the bar had moved twice and I had to re-do my proof-of-funds packet. Still got the visa, but tighter than it needed to be. When they say 'start now,' they really do mean it.
Their UAE checklist is essentially turnkey: which freezone for which activity, visa quota, Emirates ID timing, and most importantly the bank shortlist with realistic onboarding odds. Got approved at the second bank on the list. The first one rejected me as expected.
Incredible experience with Anticitizen! This stuff always seemed so complicated to me, and I didn't pursue getting residency outside the US mostly because of information paralysis, I didn't know where to start. I had my first residency in South America in the bag in less than two months, and now we're on the way to getting me a second passport in hand in probably under a year! I'm so thankful to have a backup plan outside America with how unstable things are becoming.
A salesman was pushing me toward a discounted CBI 'deal' that sounded too clean. My Anticitizen caseworker flagged the developer immediately, said the price wasn't actually approved, and laid out two safer options at almost the same cost. Avoided what would have been a six-figure mistake.
Did the consulate route in Houston, then exchanged the visa in CDMX. The 2026 guide on which consulates are actually approving solvency cases this quarter was bang on — saved me from booking at the wrong one. Card in hand in well under three months.
My wife qualified via her Italian grandmother (still within the post-2025 two-generation rule), I qualified via an Irish grandparent through the Foreign Births Register. Anticitizen ran the two cases in parallel with two caseworkers. We were sworn in within five weeks of each other. Travel rights, work rights, and a real fallback for our daughter — done.
Crazy realization of how much less than expected I will have to hand over to the federal government this year because of Untaxable. I only wish this was something my wife and I had got done earlier. I thought US taxes would always bite us hard cause of how things are done here, but we'll be paying less than a third of what we paid last year on even more income.
Leaving France properly is its own art form: the exit tax on latent gains, the social-charges question, the timing of your déclaration de départ. The team's France-specific notes were precise. I now have a clean break with the fisc and a residence in Andorra. Bien joué.
I had been told repeatedly that Swiss accounts were effectively closed to foreigners without seven-figure deposits. The Anticitizen banking desk introduced me to two cantonal banks that still onboard reasonable amounts with the right documentation. Both opened.
Almost all our business is global and outside Australia's borders, yet we've been paying 30% of our profits to the ATO for nearly half a decade. Now, we're paying zero tax anywhere. Payroll tax for our employees is the only thing we really have to cover now.
Even before booking any caseworker calls, the weekly briefing on programme changes, policy shifts, and consulate behaviour made me a more informed reader than ninety percent of expat-finance Twitter. That alone justified the subscription.
Before Anticitizen, I had been burned twice by US-based 'offshore consultants' who sold me cookie-cutter setups that would not have survived a single IRS audit. The first one was a Belize IBC with a nominee director and a digital-nomad-friendly bank in Nevis. Looked great on paper until my actual CPA (not theirs) pointed out that the US CFC rules would treat the whole thing as a US corporation for tax purposes, and the Nevis bank was on a Treasury watch list. The second was even worse: a convoluted Cyprus-Hong Kong structure that cost $18,000 to set up and was immediately flagged by my US bank's compliance department as a potential shell. Anticitizen was completely different. Their first question was not 'what structure do you want?' but 'what does your business actually do, where do your clients pay from, and what is your realistic annual profit?' From there, they mapped substance requirements, CFC exposure, GILTI implications, and even how my state franchise tax in Texas would interact with the new setup. We ended up with a far simpler structure than either of my previous attempts: a properly capitalised foreign operating company in a jurisdiction with a tax treaty, a genuine physical presence requirement that I actually meet, and a US reporting position that is completely defensible. The caseworker even reviewed my Form 5471 before I filed it and caught a classification election I had wrong. I sleep better now. My tax bill is lower, my compliance risk is basically zero, and for the first time I actually understand how my own structure works rather than just trusting someone else's PowerPoint.
Anticitizen opened my eyes to what is taken from me every single day by my government; my autonomy, my squandered tax dollars, my future. They provided me with an understanding, a game plan, and the knowledge to execute living the anti-citizen life. 5 stars easily!
Set up the local company, the bank account, the deposit, and the in-person visit. The lawyer Anticitizen recommended was responsive and fairly priced. Now a Panamanian resident with a clear path to a second passport in five years.
Ireland is no longer the easy three-document case it used to be. The FBR officer rejected my first submission over an address inconsistency. The Anticitizen Ireland guide and one targeted call got my second submission right. Now on the register.
I was instantly able to stop paying tax on $130,000 of my income via a benefit I had no idea even existed. I wish I had known about this years ago.
Forget the hype on social. The member forum is where current applicants compare last week's consulate processing times, which lawyer is responsive this month, and which banks are actually onboarding. That ground-truth signal is hard to find anywhere else.
Dutch wealth tax (Box 3) was getting absurd on my equity holdings. The team walked me through a clean relocation to Malta, a proper non-dom application, and how to handle the historic Dutch positions. No drama, no grey areas, everything signed off by a real tax lawyer they connected me with.
Thanks to Anticitizen, I have been able to get a second passport from Europe (Italy) as well as helping my wife get her Italian passport too! Sure beats our South African passports.
At sixty-three years old, I genuinely thought I had missed the window for any of this. My kids are grown, my mortgage is paid off in Vancouver, and the idea of uprooting my life to chase a second passport felt like something only younger entrepreneurs do. But watching how quickly things have shifted in Canada over the last few years — capital-gains inclusion-rate changes, talk of wealth taxes, the general direction of policy — I started to worry less about myself and more about what I was leaving my children and grandchildren. My father was born in a small town outside Rome in 1928, which made me eligible for Italian citizenship by descent through the jure sanguinis pathway. The problem was that I had almost nothing: no birth certificate, no naturalisation record, and only a baptismal entry from a church that had closed decades ago. I had spoken to two Italian immigration lawyers who both told me the case was 'challenging' (which I have learned is lawyer-speak for 'we don't want to touch it'). Anticitizen paired me with a caseworker who specialised in difficult Italian ancestry cases. Over the course of six months, she helped me obtain records from the Archivio di Stato in Rome, a certificate of non-naturalisation from the US National Archives (my grandfather had briefly worked in Pennsylvania in the 1950s), and a court-ordered extract from the closed church's diocesan archive. The whole thing felt like historical detective work, and I am not sure I would have persisted without her guidance. We lodged the application at the Vancouver consulate in January. It was accepted on the first review — no requests for additional documents, which apparently is unusual. I also secured a Portuguese D7 visa as a secondary base, which gives me a Schengen foothold while the Italian citizenship processes. What struck me most was how seriously the team took my age and situation. There was no pressure, no upselling, and no pretending that I should become a digital nomad. The peace of mind this has given my family is genuinely the best investment I have made in years.
Norway's new exit-tax regime is brutal if you don't plan. The team helped me time it properly, document the move, and structure things so I'm not still being chased by Skatteetaten in five years. Now resident in the UAE, and the paperwork is bulletproof.
Used the Individual Entrepreneur route in Georgia following their step-by-step. The whole thing — registration, tax status, opening a local account — done in four days on the ground. 1% small-business tax is not a typo.
Australia is going down the toilet and I can't understand anymore how people are voting for the same old crap that doesn't benefit the country anymore. But whatever, my husband and I now have two backup plans after working with Anticitizen—a new EU passport each and a residence permit each in Paraguay. There were some technicalities to work through, sure, but the peace of mind we now have and the extra travel freedom is INSANE.
Asked about three different pathways I'd read about online. The caseworker bluntly told me two were non-starters for my situation and the third was about to be tightened — and explained why. Refreshing not to be upsold. Ended up with a realistic, smaller plan I'm actually executing.
Wanted out of the German tax regime without losing pension rights entirely. The team mapped the Wegzugsbesteuerung implications, the timing of share sales, and the Swiss lump-sum negotiation. Now resident in Zug, taxed reasonably, paperwork airtight.
Anticitizen consistently does their part fast. Governments do not. My consulate took four months just to acknowledge receipt of my file. Worth saying to new members: the bottleneck is almost always the country, not the membership. Knock off one star from the universe, not from them.
$33 a month is rounding error compared to what's inside. The catch is that half the people who sign up read two guides and never act. The ones who book calls and follow the playbooks come out with passports and lower tax bills. The information is there — you have to use it.
Long-time member. Started with an EU passport via ancestry, then a Caribbean CBI, then residencies in Panama and Paraguay. Tax is a fraction of what it was and my family has real optionality. None of this is exotic — it's just paperwork in the right order. Anticitizen taught me that order.
Liquidated Finnish tax residency cleanly, set up an Estonian e-residency company plus a UAE operating entity, and now invoice globally without the Nordic tax wedge. The Estonia-vs-UAE comparison piece on the member portal made the decision much faster than I expected.