December 2012 International Relocation and Moving Abroad News Archive

The Office for National Statistics has released figures that show an increase in the number of British workers looking for overseas work in an effort to secure the financial future of their families. For the year ending in July 353,000 emigrants made the decision to leave the UK. This is a significant increase on the 336,000 people who...

A Home Office report shows that in 2011 around 350,000 people from the UK travelled abroad with the intention of spending more than a year in another country. Of that number, 43 per cent were British citizens. The Emigration from the UK report showed that 72 per cent of those were moving to another country for work and that many were in...

A recently published survey indicates that the majority of expats who have chosen the US as their new home are satisfied with their decision. The 2012 Expat Sentiment Survey Report was conducted by VIP Communications and found 94 per cent of those who responded were convinced they had made the correct decision to move to the US with 88 per...

Expats living and working in the US may face having to surrender their green cards if they want to avoid having to pay tax under new rules being introduced under the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act. The controversial system requires taxpayers in the US to reveal every detail about overseas earnings and investments to the Internal Revenue...