The daily emails from Lance in Vanuatu.

Yesterday Adeline and I celebrated our wedding anniversary.Although there's a large selection of over 40 restaurants and resorts from which to choose in Port Vila alone (none requiring mask wearing!) and several within 5 minutes drive, we elected to stay home and prepare a special meal...

You've heard of the expression "jumping out of the frying pan into the fire." Some people have unfortunately done this with their Plan B - mostly because it was more of a "Wish B" without enough forethought and planning.Like this one case I know of from a few years back, where a Chinese...

Today I want to talk to you on a different level, about CBI itself. We'll get to Vanautu further down. This will be longer than usual, and hopefully will make you think, so grab a cup of your favourite beverage and settle in..... Thoughts on CBIMany have seen Citizenship By Investment (CBI) as...

Famous American writer Ernest Hemingway in his book "The Sun Also Rises" answers the question “How did you go bankrupt?” this way: “Gradually, then suddenly.”It's a great display of what psychologists call "normalcy bias"I found a good definition on a psych website: "Normalcy bias is a...

In Vanuatu family is a high priority.Not surprising to discover that one of the great things about the DSP is how family-friendly it is.(DSP: Development Support Programme, which is what Vanuatu calls it's CBI - Citizenship By Investment - programme)Want to set up an alternative second...

Yesterday, I was watching a snorkeler spearfishing in front of our house.The wind was onshore and strong, so the waves were bigger than usual. He was keeping just outside the danger point where the waves broke over the coral.I thought to myself, "He's game, that's a perilous place to...

I discovered that I am a "polymath" in a very recent email. A polymath, for those not familiar with the term, is someone that has a wide and diverse set of knowledge spanning many topics. It confuses people because they don't know whether to think of me as: * an Investment Migration consultant for...

Can you imagine what happens when a diverse group of people are ruled as a colony by two major colonial powers at the SAME TIME? In this case, the New Hebrides was controlled as a colony jointly by Britian and France from 1906 through to independence in 1980.And that makes for a fascinating...

For the last 17 years Adeline and myself have lived in areas where cyclones sometimes visit, so we keep the recommended 3 weeks' worth of food, water, and medicines stacked in a spare room.Today there are many who are stockpiling food, water, and weapons in anticipation of the (further)...

When we came to Vanuatu almost 5 years ago, my wife and I started a company. We used that to apply for a FIPA* certificate so we could do business here as foreigners, and then we were able to obtain Permanent Residency status. *Vanuatu Foreign Investment Promotion AuthorityBy experience I learned...