I've been FI/RE for about 2 years and the pandemic has revealed a major flaw with our life model - we live in different countries throughout the year (not exactly geo-arbitrage, more of a snow-bird model). But with borders shut we can be locked out of the country that we normally live in / want to live in.
We normally live in Canada this time of year, but since we're US citizens without a qualifying reason to cross the border, we're stuck in the US (which isn't our home country anymore). The US isn't our home, but neither is any other country (legally speaking) since we don't have dual citizenship or permanent residency. Pre-pandemic this didn't really matter but everything has changed now.
I've looked into getting permanent residency / citizenship in Canada but most of the programs require getting a full-time permanent job. I don't really want to do that because I'm having too much fun not working. I'm willing to work part-time / seasonally in freelance or contract based gigs, but that doesn't seem to be something they want.
So the types of work a post-FIRE person might want to do - freelancing, part-time gigs, small-scale entrepreneurship, etc - are the types of work that most countries don't accept for immigration programs. How have others dealt with this? Is there a list of countries that are more open to allowing part-time work? Or a ranking of countries that are being less discriminatory towards US citizens during the pandemic?
Obviously if you have dual citizenship that's a great asset, but how do you get that if you don't have a direct relative connection and want to stay FIRE'd (not work full-time)?