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How have you navigated the visa and residency issues? I'd like to settle somewhere and stay, but in a lot of the places I'm considering residency and a path to citizenship are potentially challenging.
In many countries, your best bet is to get sponsored, or otherwise helped by your employer in the country of destination. If they won't help you, you simply apply for a resident visa.
In Canada for example they have (or at least they used to have, I don't know if this still applies) a system of points whereby you get x percent for having this or that skills in demand, x percent for speaking both French and English, x percent for having found an employer in Canada already... and the visa is granted automatically if your total is over 80% or something to that effect.
In Australia, I got a visa by proving that I had a bunch of money on my bank account. Again, I don't know if it still applies today, but at least back then, all Australia was interested in is whether you could take care of yourself financially or if you were a bum coming to leech off welfare. I didn't really have the money, I asked friends and family to lend me as much as possible to make my account fat enough to enter the country, then I gave them the money back.
As for Europe, I had dual citizenship (not anymore, I gave up my American citizenship). So I didn't have to do anything to enter the EU country I have citizenship with. Once in the Shengen area, you can relocate anywhere you want without asking permission.
I have no money, no job, and no degrees. Odds are the government kills me before fixing one of these problems. Unfortunately leaving is not an option most of the targets of a fascist regime have