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Difference between getting a visa and a residence permit in Croatia

Difference between getting a visa and a residence permit in Croatia

Available visas and residence permits for Croatia in 2021

Available visas and residence permits for Croatia in 2021

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It's official, y'all. You can now apply for Croati

It's official, y'all. You can now apply for Croatia’s digital nomad permit.

This means that any non-EU citizen who works remotely for companies registered outside of Croatia can get temporary residence for up to 1 year.

WOOOOOOT! 😀

True to form, there hasn’t been much clarity on the digital nomad residence permit from the government (colloquially called the “digital nomad visa”). As of today, we can confirm that you can now apply for this permit at any police station in Croatia just like any other permit.

We’ve created a detailed step-by-step guide on this permit including:

- Where to apply

- What you need to provide

- How to prove you are a digital nomad

- What the law says about digital nomads in Croatia

- Income tax exemption

- What remote workers with families need to know

- If this permit qualifies you for permanent residence and citizenship

-Potential hurdles and roadblocks to watch out for

If you've got questions, drop them in the comments. If you find this guide helpful, be sure to give this post a like and share it with the friends you want to join you this year in Croatia.

#digitalnomad #digitalnomads #expatincroatia #expat #expats #expatsincroatia #immigration #discovercroatia #croatiafulloflife #movetocroatia #kroatien #europe #visitcroatia #immigrate #croatiatravel #remotework #remoteworker #remoteworkers #workabroad #remotelife

Let’s go a little deeper. I recently did an i

Let’s go a little deeper.

I recently did an interview with the @croatian_language_school in London. It is definitely my favorite one thus far as it goes way beyond the perfunctory “why I came to Croatia” path. It was a pleasure responding to their refreshingly different questions.

Even though I wrote the answers at 3am, they all seem to make sense.

Everyday challenges, how the expat community in Croatia is evolving, the hardest and easiest parts of living in Croatia, comparing the legal systems of Croatia and the US, my journey with the Croatian language, cultural discoveries, what I miss about Texas and the posts I love writing the most are all covered.

To read this interview, click on the link in my bio. If you enjoyed this interview, let me know by giving this post a like.

I’ve received a lot of feedback lately from readers who want to know more about me and my time in Croatia. If there is anything you’d like to know, feel free to ask me in the comments or send me a DM.

Thank you so much for reading and thank you to @croatian_language_school for the opportunity and the interesting questions!
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#expatincroatia #expatsincroatia #expatcroatia #expat #expatlife #croatia #livingabroad #texasforever #croatiafulloflife #expatliving #interview #texan #splitcroatia #split #discovercroatia #texas #texangirl #skradin #skradincroatia #istriacroatia #istria

Where do we go from here? During the insane yea

Where do we go from here?

During the insane year that was 2020, we published comprehensive residence guides for specific nationalities, started a video series accurately titled A Texan Says Croatian Words, and spent 450 hours crafting 135 new posts and bugging the government.

Over the course of 380 hours, I personally connected with over 10.000 of you on email, video chat, social media, and in comments. 5.700 of you became new fans and 230.000 new people from 216 countries and territories visited the web site, for which we are deeply grateful.

More than 450 of you reached out to me just in the last 2 weeks. I am overwhelmed by your love and personal connection to Croatia. We're catching up from vacation but I respond to everyone, so we’ll be in touch soon.

We plan to go even bigger in 2021. Email subscribers will find out what’s to come in tomorrow's newsletter. Everyone else will see these new features roll out over the next few months. I am pretty excited about all of it.

This month's focus is on updating all of our content to reflect the mega amount of law changes that happened before the holidays. And there are a lot of them.

We’ve already got the latest on the digital nomad permit and permit for diaspora without citizenship. We’ve already updated our immigration guides to reflect that background checks are now required for first-time temporary residents, discussed the easing of permanent residence requirements for spouses of Croatians and confirmed the new HZZO premium.

New updates to procedures and the infamous Croatian bureaucracy will be shared all month long. We’ll also pepper in some new step-by-step guides and cultural language lessons. We’re back from holiday, and ready to rock.

If you’re ready to dive head first into 2021 like we are, like this post. If you’ve got any burning questions or just want to say “bok”, give me a shout in the comments. To make sure you don’t miss any updates, follow here or subscribe to our newsletter. You’ll be the first to know.

Thanks to all of you for being here. 2021, bring it on!
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#expatincroatia #2021plans #2021goals #digitalnomad #digitalnomads #croatiafulloflife

Sretan božić tebi i tvojima! Puno sreće i zdrav

Sretan božić tebi i tvojima! Puno sreće i zdravlja. 😊❤

Happy Christmas to you and yours! Wishing you lots of happiness and health.

How are you spending Christmas this year?
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#sretanbozic #sretanbožić #sretanbožićsvima #happychristmas #merrychristmas #christmasincroatia #croatianchristmas #christmasgreetings #christmas #croatian #croatianlanguage #christmasmessage #expatchristmas

My favorite moments of 2020. I definitely had a

My favorite moments of 2020.

I definitely had a lot of very bad days this year, but I also had a lot of hella awesome super fantastic days for which I hold Croatia personally responsible.

Here are just some of my favorite Croatia moments this year:

- Hiking through Plitivce with friends and having it all to ourselves

- My birthday picnic at Sustipan when we were first let out of lockdown in May

- Being interviewed on Dobro jutro, Hrvatska

- Day sailing around island Brač

- Horseback riding in the Dalmatian hinterland

- Dinner at my favorite restaurant in all of Croatia, Stari podrum (Pictured with Marinka, from the family that owns the restaurant)

- Exploring Korčula for the very first time

- Whitewater rafting on the Cetina

- Meeting SOOOOOO many readers and fans both in person and over video chat (Pictured with the ladies of @_secondstylearound_)

- Wishing on Grgur’s toe that our American votes would matter, and then being supremely happy once they did.

To read more about my favorite Croatia moments of 2020, check out my latest post at the bio link.

Which days in 2020 do you want to always remember?
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#2020recap #expatsincroatia #expatincroatia #plitvice #plitvicenationalpark #npplitvice #plitvicelakes #memories #expat #expatabroad #expatadventures #expatlife #horsebackriding #croatia #croatiafulloflife #sailing #islandbrac #islandbrač

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 2020 is

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

2020 is officially the year of solitary confinement. Regardless of how often we saw people in person before, we definitely see people a lot less now - if at all in some cases.

That’s been a very hard pill to swallow for all of us. Croatia, the country of social butterflies, has not adjusted well.

In Croatia, socializing with friends is considered an integral part of what keeps us alive, on the same level as breathing air and drinking coffee. I have adopted this ideology, head first.

Here in Split, it is still possible to see a person here and there, outdoors with a lot of distance, masks and hand sanitizer. It’s not ideal, but it’s an option for which we are all grateful.

What I struggle with the most is not seeing my friends who live in the US. I already don’t see them very often due to the distance and now all plans for me to go there or for them to come here were cancelled and will continue to be on hold for the foreseeable future. For some, multiple years will pass before we see each other again.

Usually, at least one close friend comes to visit me here in Croatia every year. Showing my dearest friends around Croatia is seriously one of my most favorite things to do in life.

As you know by now, I get very excited when talking about Croatia. Sharing this place I love with the people I love produces a non-chemical high that I cannot explain and desperately miss. I am officially in withdrawal.

These are photos of my friends who have visited Croatia in the past. They are people I grew up with, people I went to high school, people I went to culinary school with, and people I’ve known since I was 11 years old. They are more than friends, they are my family. And I miss them all terribly.

I cannot wait for the day when we can reunite in the 3-dimensional world.

Who do you miss? Where will you fly to first when all this passes? Who are you chomping at the bit to see in person?

#friends #bff #friendsforever #solitaryconfinement #isolation #absencemakestheheartgrowfonder #selfisolation #whatsnext #traveldreams #whatimiss #whatimissmost #croatia #expat #expatlife #expatproblems #socialbutterfly

Smurf hands. PLUS an announcement. I spent a co

Smurf hands. PLUS an announcement.

I spent a couple hours at the javni bilježnik (notary public) today. I had to change my company address (a story for another day) and also get my fingerprints taken.

As part of my journey to Croatian citizenship, a background check is required from my native country. The USA requires fingerprints to accomplish this. By golly, it was hard to find someone to do this in Croatia.

The US Embassy does not do it, for some silly reason. They recommended a retired man in Zagreb who offered this service at one time, but no longer does.

I had my lawyer pester Split MUP to see if they would do it. Turns out, they only offer this service to Croatian citizens and criminals. Holding up a tisak just to get my fingerprints taken didn’t seem worth it.

I bothered all the expat groups to no avail.

And then, one of my readers reached out with a solution. Apparently, some notary publics do this! And the one she found to do it is the one I had already connected her with! Huzzah!

440 kuna and 10 blue fingers later, I have my fingerprints for my FBI background check.

Starting January 1, 2021, 3rd-country nationals who are applying for temporary residence in Croatia for the first time must provide background checks from the country where they lived the last 12 months. My assumption is that if you didn’t live in one place for 12 months, then it should be from your country of nationality.

This is a pretty big deal, especially if you’re an American because it's an ass pain.

We’ll cover all new requirements this month and after the new year.

If you know someone who is moving to Croatia in 2021, share this post with them. Let them know things are changing so they prepare BEFORE leaving their home country.

Finally, I will note that the FBI says you can take your fingerprints yourself. I don’t trust myself to do that correctly and considering the cost to DHL this mofo back and forth to DC, I’d like to have it done right the first time.
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#fingerprints #fingerprint #fingerpainting #javnibiljeznik #notary #fbi #usa #unitedstates #backgroundcheck #croatiancitizenship #citizenship #bureaucracy #fingerprinting #makingamess #smurfs

All I need is pauza. Expat in Croatia will take i

All I need is pauza.

Expat in Croatia will take its first ever proper Christmas holiday this year, because 2020 demands it and it is what Croatians do, after all.

We'll be going on hiatus December 19 to January 3. If you've got any burning questions, be sure to get them in before then.

We are still here for a couple-ish more weeks doing the usual, fightin' bureacracy, botherin' HZZO, helpin' people, and updatin' content for 2021.

If you're looking forward to the holidays (or 2021), give me a HELL YEAH in the comments.
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#pauza #holiday #holidays #christmas #croatianholiday #hiatus #expatsincroatia #expatincroatia #imover2020 #2020mustend #croatian #announcement #godisnji

This should be me right now, but it isn’t. To

This should be me right now, but it isn’t.

Today is Thanksgiving in the US. It is my most favorite holiday of all. When I was a kid, it was the one day of the year when my whole family got together. As an adult living abroad, it is the one day of the year when I get to share a meal with all of my closest friends in Split.

But this year is different…in so many ways.

With the pandemic raging unchecked, packing 10 of my dearest friends into an enclosed space felt a little homicidal. So we put a pin in it.

Regardless, I am still using this day to think about what I am thankful for. Today, I am thankful for my amazing, kind, generous, glorious readers. Because of you, I get to geek about Croatia all day…as my JOB.

I’d like to pay homage to a few readers in particular.

First, to all of you who have sent me a DM or an email just to say hi, thank you so much! Writing about Croatian bureaucracy is no small task and somedays, we feel like flipping over our desks. Your notes really make my day and reminds me of the positive impact our content is having on people’s lives.

Second, to all of you who wrote a letter of recommendation for my citizenship application, thank you so much! I know that if I’m approved, your gracious contribution will be part of that.

Third, to all of you who sent me gifts this year, thank you so much! Books, chocolate, cilantro seeds, oh my! I now have enough jalapeno seeds to keep me in salsa for the next decade.

And finally, to the those who hosted me during my road trip to Istria, THANK YOU SO MUCH. Maya, Ricky, Kirsten, Jessica, Emily, Monika, Dayna, Isabel, Lawrence and Alicia. You welcomed me into your towns and homes like I was family. You fed me. You performed tea ceremonies. You made me pulled pork and tacos. You shared your lives with me and how @expatincroatia played a role in those lives. There are not enough words to convey how grateful I am to know of all of you, and I can’t wait to see you all again.

What are you thankful for this year?
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#thanksgiving #thanksgiving2020 #thanksgivingabroad #expatincroatia #thankful #givingthanks #expatcroatia #expatthanksgiving #thanksgivingmood #expatabroad

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