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This Island Nation Lets Anyone Visit, Work, and Live, Indefinitely
It welcomes visitors from every country on the planet, without any pre-flight paperwork.
Svalbard is a one-of-a-kind destination.
Due to a unique treaty structure, anyone from dozens of countries can move to this Norwegian archipelago, visa-free, and live as long as they want, without ever needing to complete paperwork or documentation.
There is no other place on Earth that allows this. At least not at such a wide scale. Certain countries have agreements with others that allow their citizens visa-free passage for as long as they like. Take the United States and the Marshal Islands. U.S. citizens can move to and work on the islands for as long as they wish without filling out immigration paperwork. But in terms of universally allowing citizens from a large collection of countries to do this? Nothing else is like Svalbard.
Of course, being in the Arctic, it has limited resources, jobs are hard to come by, and you better become well acquainted with the cold and months of sunlessness. For those who dream of surf and sun, there isn’t…
