In our previous article, we outlined some ‘cheap’ countries for intending migrants, telling you why these countries are great alternatives to the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. These Countries that have become ‘hot’ cakes and milk would be of significant cash for any sort of migration.

We also told you of Norway, Germany, and Iceland, some of the cheap countries that offer free tuition for international students. Today we continue to reveal these countries and do hope you find our list useful.

4. Austria. This rich European Country offers close to free postgraduate education to international students wanting to come to Austria. The tuition fee in Austria is as cheap as €363 per session, compared to £13,000 in the United Kingdom. You do not need any English proficiency test for this Country, but you need to legalize all your documents from your home country before attempting to migrate to Austria. Most Schools in Austria teach in English even though the official lingua franca in Austria is German.

Austria also offers the red card – white card system (like the shortage occupation list) of immigration for highly skilled persons who want to move to this Austria. This pathway is non-educational, but you might want to google it up for more details if you believe you are a highly skilled person.

5. Spain. This is another European Country where postgraduate education for international Students is relatively cheap at €3,500 per session. You also do not need any English language proficiency test for this Country.

6. Portugal. Like Spain, Portugal requires about €3,500 per session for postgraduate education international Students. You do not need any English language proficiency test for this Country. Life in Portugal is quite cheap with a very friendly populace.

…to be continued.

When it comes to migration, many only think about the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and the like. These Countries are now known as the big leagues and do not come cheap by way of migration! Yet there are several other nice countries that allow for cheap migration using several routes that leave money in your pocket.

In this series, we will be examining some of the more pocket-friendly Countries, where one can easily fulfill their lifelong economic dreams as migrants. We hope this article will help many to make better migration and financial choices.

1. Norway. As we have explained in our previous migration article, the easiest way to move abroad is through the ‘education pathway’ other ways include career, investment, etc. When we talk about academics, Norway is a fantastic country to move to and the reason why this is so is simply that academic tuition is mostly completely free in this Scandinavian Country. Imagine moving to the United Kingdom to school for a master’s degree, your minimum tuition fee as an international student in the UK will be around £13,000. Now imagine having to get that same degree in Norway at zero tuition fee! Sounds like a cost-saving move to me! This might yet be the most financially savvy decision you will make in a long while! Furthermore, all you need to apply for your study visa to Norway is your academic transcript and your international passport, you do not need to show any test of English as a foreign language. once you can prove that you can take care of yourself in Norway (usually with €10,000 in a bank account) you are good to go.
2. Germany. Surprisingly, Germany also comes through as a cheap education migration Country, again for the same reason that tuition is mostly free! Also, Germany accepts grades like Second class lower, Third-class grades, and even national diplomas for post-graduate education. Germany also has free vocational schools for tradesmen and women. However, do note that Germany requires the sum of €10,800 in a blocked German account which you will access once you arrive in Germany.
3. Iceland. This is another great destination for would-be Migrants. You do not need to show a blocked account and the proof for subsistence is only about €6,000 with the promise of free tuition. Iceland however needs proof of English language test, unlike Germany and Norway.

…to be continued.

In 1979, Michael Aldrich from the United Kingdom was able to connect a modified domestic Television to a real-time multi-user transaction processing computer via a telephone line, by so doing online shopping was born. Such embryonic moves have crystalized today into a global system commonly called financial technology or simply Fintech.

Over the years, a few countries have emerged as clear leaders in the Fintech space, so in this two-part series, we’ll examine five such countries for those who want to seek greener pastures in the field of Fintech by migrating.

1. United Kingdom

Michael Aldrich’s system was marketed in 1980 and offered as business-to-business systems sold in the UK, Ireland, and Spain. These together with Tim Berners Lee’s creation of the World Wide Web (WWW) in the early 1990s effectively put the United Kingdom at the forefront of digital technology as a payment system leading to a robust ecosystem of solutions coming from the United Kingdom. Today, the UK government policies actively supports the development and deployment of Fintech solutions. For example, the Tech nation Visa that supports the migration of global talents in information technology to the United Kingdom.

2. USA

Despite the above-mentioned enormous strides made by the United Kingdom, the USA emerged as the number one contender for fintech king of the World by the year 2020, with its robust fintech ecosystem.

Fintech technologies from companies like Stripe, Coinbase, and Robinhood and digital wallets and mobile payments solution services like PayPal, Venmo, Square, Stripe, Google Wallet, and Apple Pay have firmly placed Uncle Sam (USA) as the go-to Nation for Fintech gold diggers. Silicon Valley is now globally renowned for its number of successful start-ups.

To be continued…

Football being the most popular sport in the world has always been one the highest paying sport careers ever. The World Cup is the Zenith of tournaments in football, a players dream, a country’s pride, again to be held this year in Qatar from November 21 to December 18.

For Qatar 2022, the largest is 700million dollars. The prize money will be distributed at 2million dollars each for each participating team. At the group stage, they get paid 10million dollars each. This means the higher the team goes, the more they get paid. The winner of the world cup takes home 50 million dollars. However, FIFA also pays about 209 million dollars to the clubs for their players’ participation in the tournament, while the insurance fee adds up to about 138.5 million dollars.

These payments would go to the football associations of qualifying nations, and naturally the players get rewarded from the pool too.

Playing football or Soccer as some nations choose to call it, can be a globally rewarding career for the consistently diligent player and for participating countries at tournaments such as the FIFA world cup.

The Fédération Internationale of Football Association (FIFA) oversees every set of rules related to player transfers globally. Training compensation is one of the compensation rules of FIFA. For a professional footballer, benefitting from this payment sometimes requires that the player registers first as a professional player in another country other than the one where he would be trained; and also the player’s subsequent international transfer from one club to another. Upon every club transfer, the new club pays the player’s previous professional club a training compensation. And then the player also gets paid a training compensation a month after signing a professional contract in the new club. Transfer fees are usually not disclosed and different clubs usually have different financial values according to the confederation to which it belongs and the caliber of the training.

In the football reward system, there is what we call Solidarity Payments. These Solidarity payments are usually distributed to all clubs that previously participated in training the player between his 12th and 23rd birthdays at a proportional rate depending on how long the player spent at each of those clubs.

Finally, from a financial perspective, a player’s ability to earn money is also dependent on his or her success on the pitch, which also determines the kinds of sponsorships and commercial appeal such players can attract. A player’s earnings can be extremely volatile and build up over a short period of time. Most football players make the bulk of the money by playing for clubs while they usually play on the country teams as patriots and also to showcase their skills and not necessarily for the token their country offers them. Their peak earnings can be as little as three to six years in a professional career and just one big contract in the premier league can be all a player secures to transform his financial state. By putting the right planning and implementation in place over time, most top footballers can easily be financially independent by the end of their careers.