Starter Kit. Idea 375 of 500. Cluster 18
Citizenship, visa and dual-nationality advisory services that are honest about the rules
The mechanism, from the book
1.5 million people abroad who know how rich countries work, and who send home money and little else.
The first step
Write down the 10 questions Sri Lankan families abroad ask most about dual citizenship, visas for foreign spouses and children's status, and answer each with the official source for the rule. Offer a fixed-fee consultation to members of one Sri Lankan association abroad and see who books. The questions people bring that are not on your list become the next 10.
- Who pays first
- A Sri Lankan family abroad with a foreign-born spouse or children who need a straight answer on status before they move back or buy property.
- What leaves today
- Misinformation keeps capable people from returning or investing; honest advice is the proof that the rules can be read and followed.
Ask first
- Data Protection Authority. Ask what care is needed with clients' passports and family documents.
Check before you spend
That you advise only from the official sources and say so, that you never act as an agent where a licence is needed, and your indemnity cover.
Find out these three numbers
- Which questions do families abroad ask most often?
- What fixed fee will members pay for one consultation?
- How many book after one association hears about it?
A comparison from the book
The fridge by the road. Chapter Six
"a place where the honest move is also the winning move, so ordinary people play it"
Honest advice with the source shown is the service, and it is also what wins the next client.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
From the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? by Dr Maheshika Halbeisen. The idea and the mechanism are the book's; this kit was written for the site.