The Dhumzur family returns to visit Kismetta and says they want to find a place where they can all live together. Kismetta wonders if this is the case or if she is only a… Pawn
Post-Comic Notes:
Credits: Overview of San Francisco (in the background on page 3) by Brion VIBBER. Used under Creative Commons License.
In real life, it would probably take Nila (Indian passport) and Zara (UAE) at least a month to arrange a tourist visa to the US. Only 40 countries have visa-free travel to the United States. Neither India nor the UAE are on this list.
[EDIT] The above note was true when this was originally published. Since I wrote this comic, the UAE and the US have reestablished visa free travel (for now anyway.)
When I began planning this in 2022, the Dhumzur family had many more options for Citizenship by Investment and visa-free travel to the United States. But, in the last year, many countries removed that option or made it much harder to get citizenship by investment. In the last few months, countries with easy access to citizenship have been bumped from the Visa-Free list and now require Electronic Travel Authorization (ESTA) submitted 72 hours before arriving in the US. The US considers countries that issue citizenship by investment to be a security issue.
Meanwhile, adding to the reduction in free travel, the EU announced they’ll have their own system in place
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