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Moving to Canada: The Law Is Strong. Here's What It Doesn't Cover.
Close to home is a good reason. It isn't the whole answer.

Les Williams
2 days ago3 min read
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Moving Abroad: How to Read a Country When There's No Score
You don't need all of it. You need the two things that decide it for you.

Les Williams
2 days ago3 min read
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Moving to Ghana: Going Home, and Who Has to Plan Harder
For a lot of us, Ghana is a great move. For some of us, the law makes it a harder one.

Les Williams
2 days ago5 min read
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Moving to Mexico: 7 Things the Law and the Data Say Before You Decide
What's written down, who counted it, and what nobody's counted yet.

Les Williams
2 days ago4 min read
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Living in Portugal: The Gender Recognition Law Only Covers Portuguese Nationals
The headline is true. It just leaves out who it's true for.

Les Williams
2 days ago4 min read
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The Map Is Live. It Doesn't Have a Score.
Four country entries, read through the questions you're actually asking. Sourced, dated, and honest about where they stop.

Les Williams
2 days ago4 min read
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Guidebook, Not Memoir
A launch week note Virtual Impact has been out for a little over a week now, and I want to use this space to say the thing I keep coming back to when people ask what the book actually is. Go looking for resources on relocating, changing careers, or building a life outside your home country, and if you're not the default demographic the content assumes, you'll still find some representation. A video here, a story there. Pieces of yourself scattered across other people's highli

Les Williams
Sep 92 min read
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The Rankings Were Never Built to Answer Your Question
Every "best countries" list is somebody else's weights, published as though they were yours. What the rankings actually measure, what they admit they don't, and the question they were never built to answer.

Les Williams
Sep 24 min read
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The Real Reason I Went Quiet
I haven't posted much here in a while, and I want to tell you the real reason, not the polished version. My son got sick. That came first, and it came before anything else could matter. While I was carrying that, I went back to full-time immigration court work. I gave it everything I had left, and I completely burnt out. A few weeks ago, I left that job. I have opened my own law practice. It's called Williams Legal Strategy, and it exists because I needed to build something t

Les Williams
Aug 212 min read
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