In quest to find a sane place to raise a family/Residency Solutions for Oman. [email protected]
Muscat, Oman
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Good summary. But 2 things he did not mention:
1) you can open an LLC with 2 year renewable. Cost is 4k-6 USD based on who you work with. No requirement for an office lease, money in the bank, other overhead. You do have to hire an Omani after a year with this setup. Needless to say there are ways around that.
2) Buy a residential unit for 125k usd (minimum value) in Sultan Haytham City Muscat (under construction, will be ready 28/29) and get a lifetime residency. You just need to pay 30% of the value and you have 5 year to make the full payment.
I'm in Oman right now.
People call it the "Switzerland of the Middle East" but I'm realizing parallels don't do the place justice.
It won't be a new Dubai. And it shouldn't be.
Here's the breakdown:
→ 0% personal income tax, even after 2028 if you earn under ~$109K
→ Digital nomad visa: ~$3,900/mo requirement, 1-year renewable. Until 2028, full 0% tax
→ Golden Visa: $520K, 10-year, full family. Under-the-radar Plan B with undervalued real estate
→ Rent is almost half of Dubai
→ 5th safest country on Earth
→ Free zones with 30-year corporate tax exemptions (selected industries)
→ Path to citizenship in 15 years, something the UAE doesn't offer
For pure tax optimization, networking, and infrastructure, the UAE is still the top. Dubai's ecosystem is unmatched. Nothing competes.
But not everyone needs the Dubai machine.
Remote worker under six figures? Oman gives you GCC proximity, a USD-pegged currency, and 0% tax at a fraction of the cost.
Retired? It's warm, safe, cheap, and simple. No hustle culture. A place you actually want to wake up in.
Playing the long game? Oman is one of the only GCC countries where naturalization is even possible. The UAE gives you an incredible base, but no passport. Over 15-20 years, that's a completely different asset.
Real estate is genuinely undervalued. Waterfront in Muscat costs a fraction of Dubai Marina. If you're building a Plan B, the entry point matters.
And then there's the thing nobody talks about enough. The nature, the friendliness, the culture. This isn't just a tax play. It's one of the most beautiful, welcoming countries I've been to.
Besides, it's bitcoin aligned with government-backed mining facilities leveraging the low cost of electricity.
One hour from Dubai. Same region. Completely different philosophy.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a spike in golden visas here as pure plan B option, even for UAE residents.
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My replies are always mute. But I don't shy from coming to your space. Nadir Shah writing letters and making excuses to invade under the pretext of escapee Afghans is not some smoking gun evidence. I am not denying the migration of some Afghan nobles and military affiliated families. But mass migration is a myth. You said en mass. And what do you mean by the Indo Gangetic plain? this could be like 700,000km area. You think Muhammad Shah had control over all of that? So clearly it was a ploy and excuse to invade India. you quoting a Zionist account is a further evidence of your desperation to reach something that did not exist then, and in this video where Afghans are simply moving around in their own lands.
Also, hypothetically, even if Afghans did migrate to the lands under Muhammad Shah's soverignty, he was in no position to hand them over to Nader Shah. The Rohilla Afghans would not put up with that. so it's not like he did it out of some chivalrious principles, because if that was the case, then the subsequent vassal like behavior with Nadir Shah makes no sense. so not sure what exactly are you trying to claim.
Please retweet this enough so we get these oppressors' attention. An Afghan heart patient went to Pakistan for treatment but then got detained by the police and consequently are being deported. Problem is that they are not being deported fast enough so the heart patient can at least get some relief back home. They are interned in a camp, and are taking their sweet time with deportation.
This is also on the Afghan government. In 5 years (and 20 before that, thanks to the corruption and incompetence of Karzai and Ghani) you don't have a decent cardiology hospital so your people don't get humiliated elsewhere.
Do you(@dranamfatima) have even a little humanity left to hear my desperate appeal for the deportation of a young cardiac patient who is seriously ill? I have repeatedly appealed for compassion and justice, yet my pleas seem to be falling on deaf ears.
I understand that you are currently on ex-Pakistan leave, but does that mean there is no other competent authority who can intervene, review this order, and prevent a humanitarian tragedy?
Is there no one who can listen to the desperate cry of a family fighting for the life and future of a sick young person?
I am not asking for a favour; I am pleading for humanity, compassion, and an urgent, fair consideration of this case. Please, do not let administrative delays or the absence of one officer stand in the way of a life that may be at risk.
I once again humbly appeal to you to take immediate notice of this matter or direct me to the competent authority who can intervene without further delay. Please listen to my appeal before it is too late. A little compassion today could make the difference between despair and hope.
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Quoting, in agreement, a zio account is the proof that this guy would cook anything against the Afghans. Rather irrational takes unless something happened to him as a kid by an Afghan.
Meanwhile the “emperor” Muhammad Shah:
Brothers freshly coming to Oman and asking "what is one crucial thing that I should know brother?"
Me: be careful with the bidets akhi. Malls, mosques, restaurants. Try them first on the side before using it. Some are designed with such ferocious water pressure that water will shoot out of your mouth.
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This is f***ing radicalizing me.
A $2.5 million endowment. For one Afghan woman. At Oxford.
I know how the Afghan-women’s-education industry works, but this is next-level horsesh*t. If you’re a diaspora Afghan in the West, you should be furious at this kind of performative theater.
$2.5 million could buy deworming medication for millions of Afghan kids, at well under a dollar a child. That’s real impact you can measure in children who can eat and grow without being sick. Instead, the money goes to a symbol....one seat at Oxford that will change nothing for Afghans on the ground. Another Malala type boring and untalented activist.
And we all know the playbook. Keep the cause open forever to court rich donors who want a feel-good pet project and a tax write-off, or worse groom these women for intelligence and psyop purposes; pay yourselves and your family very well; inflate the numbers until “students served” means anyone who joined a WhatsApp group; keep the consultants, think tanks, and UN agencies fed. Afghan women become the brand, not the beneficiaries.
This thread lays to bare the unbelievable lack of accountability and corruption. xitter.cf/fghyasi/status/2110563…
Today, in conjunction with the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust, a partner organization of the University of Oxford, I am proud to announce that I am making a gift of $2.5 million to endow a scholarship that will allow at least one Afghan woman to pursue her master’s degree at Oxford every year.
The scholarship, which I’ve chosen to name the Afghan Women Leaders Fund, will provide 100% of the course fees for an eligible master’s degree along with an annual stipend to cover food and accommodation costs as well as a grant to offset certain student expenses. In addition, scholarship recipients will undertake an extensive leadership training program delivered by the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust.
I myself am an alum of the Weidenfeld-Hoffman Scholarships and Leadership Program at Oxford, and it is my privilege to make this gift to honor the resilience and bravery of Afghan women. The scholarship will be available for students applying to join Oxford in September 2027, and full details are available by following the link below.
tinyurl.com/bdasct8p
I want to be clear that this gift does not come from SOLA, and it is independent of the funds we raise there to support our operations. In the spring of 2024, I was one of 12 individuals provided with $20 million by the philanthropist Melinda French Gates to launch our own philanthropic giving. I am endlessly grateful to Melinda and her team at Pivotal Ventures for their trust and belief in my vision of the world-changing power of a generation of educated Afghan women.
I’m fully aware of the visa brake currently in effect in the UK, and this gift is in no way meant to be a political statement, nor should it be interpreted as one. I intend this gift to offer opportunity and possibilities for women whose bravery is the light in the darkness, both now and in years to come.
At SOLA, we educate more than 40,000 students between our boarding school in Rwanda and our online program SOLAx. We are proud of what we’ve accomplished, but we are not satisfied. The need is immense. The work is generational.
A few years ago at the UN, I asked: “What is one girl worth? She’s worth everything – and she can do anything.” I am so happy to be in a position today where I can make a financial gift that places the tools of success in the hands of deserving Afghan women. This is all we’ve ever asked: not to be pitied or patronized, but only to have access to the tools we need to build our own futures, our own successes.
At Oxford next fall, an Afghan woman leader’s journey will begin. Another Afghan woman will come the following year, and it will continue, year after year, woman after woman. I am eager to see the future each one of them will build.
Reminds me of my conversation with somone running an Arabic institute in Jordan, where State Department employees were being taught Arabic. I asked the guy--a rather strict, practicing Muslim--under what principle he is teaching these folks Arabic, knowing well how the language is weaponized against us. He said "the Hanafis consider the sale of weapon from a Muslim to a Kafir Harbi (those actively fighting us), to be valid. so our teaching is rather an inconsequential thing. The contract is valid akhi". I stood there in awe of his logic. Just because something is valid, does not mean you can or should do it.
Death by a 1000 validities.
This is f***ing radicalizing me.
A $2.5 million endowment. For one Afghan woman. At Oxford.
I know how the Afghan-women’s-education industry works, but this is next-level horsesh*t. If you’re a diaspora Afghan in the West, you should be furious at this kind of performative theater.
$2.5 million could buy deworming medication for millions of Afghan kids, at well under a dollar a child. That’s real impact you can measure in children who can eat and grow without being sick. Instead, the money goes to a symbol....one seat at Oxford that will change nothing for Afghans on the ground. Another Malala type boring and untalented activist.
And we all know the playbook. Keep the cause open forever to court rich donors who want a feel-good pet project and a tax write-off, or worse groom these women for intelligence and psyop purposes; pay yourselves and your family very well; inflate the numbers until “students served” means anyone who joined a WhatsApp group; keep the consultants, think tanks, and UN agencies fed. Afghan women become the brand, not the beneficiaries.
This thread lays to bare the unbelievable lack of accountability and corruption. xitter.cf/fghyasi/status/2110563…
Today, in conjunction with the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust, a partner organization of the University of Oxford, I am proud to announce that I am making a gift of $2.5 million to endow a scholarship that will allow at least one Afghan woman to pursue her master’s degree at Oxford every year.
The scholarship, which I’ve chosen to name the Afghan Women Leaders Fund, will provide 100% of the course fees for an eligible master’s degree along with an annual stipend to cover food and accommodation costs as well as a grant to offset certain student expenses. In addition, scholarship recipients will undertake an extensive leadership training program delivered by the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust.
I myself am an alum of the Weidenfeld-Hoffman Scholarships and Leadership Program at Oxford, and it is my privilege to make this gift to honor the resilience and bravery of Afghan women. The scholarship will be available for students applying to join Oxford in September 2027, and full details are available by following the link below.
tinyurl.com/bdasct8p
I want to be clear that this gift does not come from SOLA, and it is independent of the funds we raise there to support our operations. In the spring of 2024, I was one of 12 individuals provided with $20 million by the philanthropist Melinda French Gates to launch our own philanthropic giving. I am endlessly grateful to Melinda and her team at Pivotal Ventures for their trust and belief in my vision of the world-changing power of a generation of educated Afghan women.
I’m fully aware of the visa brake currently in effect in the UK, and this gift is in no way meant to be a political statement, nor should it be interpreted as one. I intend this gift to offer opportunity and possibilities for women whose bravery is the light in the darkness, both now and in years to come.
At SOLA, we educate more than 40,000 students between our boarding school in Rwanda and our online program SOLAx. We are proud of what we’ve accomplished, but we are not satisfied. The need is immense. The work is generational.
A few years ago at the UN, I asked: “What is one girl worth? She’s worth everything – and she can do anything.” I am so happy to be in a position today where I can make a financial gift that places the tools of success in the hands of deserving Afghan women. This is all we’ve ever asked: not to be pitied or patronized, but only to have access to the tools we need to build our own futures, our own successes.
At Oxford next fall, an Afghan woman leader’s journey will begin. Another Afghan woman will come the following year, and it will continue, year after year, woman after woman. I am eager to see the future each one of them will build.
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The Latest Sequence In Russian-Pakistani Relations Is Worth Paying Attention To
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Attending Thierry Hertoghe’s “From Fatigue to Energy with Hormones and Nutritional Therapies” lecture.
Thierry Hertoghe is one of the top expert on hormones in the world.
This is the most effective stack for killing H.Pylori, which from my experience 40-50% people have without knowing it, and causes massive digestive issues for years. Bismuth subcitrate, 2 types of antibiotics (metro and tetra or Doxy) and add an omeprazole. In the US if you don't have insurance it costs 1032$ to get 14 day supply. If you have insurance, then you need a doc to prescribe it which is a tall order because they will have you test for H. Pylori stool test only, which often gives false negative. Breath test is the gold standard. So on paper insurance (which costs about 27k $ a year for family in the US) should make it cheap but it never comes through because of prescription and testing issues.
I get all of that from my trusted Indian supplier for 50$ (including shipping). No 27K $ a year insurance. In fact, I am so pissed at how gate-kept, slow, and ineffective the medical system has become that I am going to be launching a service where you do a telehealth zoom call with a doctor for 10 minutes, give them your tests and get whatever medicine you need with a prescription anywhere in the world. Obviously not control substances and narcotics etc. Drugs that many people get over the counter in other countries, and others that get easy prescription.
If you are interested in getting this service, email me on [email protected], and write briefly what kind of medicine you want, and if you need a telehealth service for a prescription. I ll put you on a list (first come first serve) and connect you when it's ready. I will not announce that here when it's ready for obvious reasons.
Please don't ask for Viagra. Although we don't judge. Whatever helps you accelerate.
I run a female's only madrassah/community center in Laghman, Afghanistan. 350 students. 3 teachers. My yearly cost is about 5600$. I am confident I am doing more than Malala Fund in Afghanistan.
After a certain revenue model, all non-profits are for-profits. I am sure Malala is not corrupt (she is a useful idiot and a coward, but that is a separate story). There is a scamming consultant class with a revolving door to UN, think thanks, Hollywood etc who hijack prospective organizations, and milk the hell out of them. After a certain point you are just a spectator to their policies. When they say "jump", you say "how high?"
@MalalaFund is the best-known name in Afghan girls’ education. I had @claudeai go through its audited financial statements, IRS Form 990s and its own grant announcements to see what it has actually funded for Afghan girls, and what changed as a result. 🧵
Advanced Bionutritionals and Ortho Molecular Products are top notch. followed by Now and Life Extension.
If they wanted to exact retributions there are literally 100s of 1000 of former Afghan military personnel that they can kill or jail but they have not done that because of the general amnesty. Except for rare occasions it has held well.
We are coming to a point where some conservative leaning American Muslims will try to make connections between the Taliban and European Govts just to show that they are American patriots. But what they don’t know is that behind closed doors MAGA considers them traitors not just for changing religions (most of them are homosexual agnostics), but for becoming Muslim. So there is so much your pandering can do for it.
Respect yourself.
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Unscientific opinion: West believes Human are "rational animals." The more rational ("intelligent") the more human & vice versa. That's why racial IQ is such a big deal. Racists & anti racists think lower racial IQ means less human. So dumb/crazy man has less worth than a tiger.
I know we Muslims are bad to each other. But in any Muslim country if this happened, there would be some who would jump to distract the tiger or even try to save this guy's life. If there were weapons, they would definitely shoot the animal to save the guy (regardless of the reasons why he jumped in the first place). Westerners commenting on this are happy that the tiger was not killed, and that guy should not have been there.
One of the reasons I abandoned living in the West (retrospectively in any case) was because I knew if there ever was a situation where I or my family needed help, few would care for me because a) no one wants to endanger their safety for mine, b) they will be debating why this guy put himself in that particular situation in the first place. Rationalizing, not acting.
In Muslims countries, people act first and rationalize later in these situations.
@Move to Muscat retweeted
مَّن يَشْفَعْ شَفَـٰعَةً حَسَنَةً يَكُن لَّهُۥ نَصِيبٌ مِّنْهَا ۖ وَمَن يَشْفَعْ شَفَـٰعَةً سَيِّئَةً يَكُن لَّهُۥ كِفْلٌ مِّنْهَا ۗ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ مُّقِيتًا
Ustadh Anwar is right. And one of the reasons why I'm so vocal in my little corner of X about shedding a disinfectant light on what @DrShadeeElmasry calls "Sufi Chique Quietism" is because it's verses like the above that show that Islam is a social deen. And those who insist on a utilitarian, worldly cost-benefit Excel sheet before stepping in to do what's right are either bad faith actors or just don't get it.
I know we Muslims are bad to each other. But in any Muslim country if this happened, there would be some who would jump to distract the tiger or even try to save this guy's life. If there were weapons, they would definitely shoot the animal to save the guy (regardless of the reasons why he jumped in the first place). Westerners commenting on this are happy that the tiger was not killed, and that guy should not have been there.
One of the reasons I abandoned living in the West (retrospectively in any case) was because I knew if there ever was a situation where I or my family needed help, few would care for me because a) no one wants to endanger their safety for mine, b) they will be debating why this guy put himself in that particular situation in the first place. Rationalizing, not acting.
In Muslims countries, people act first and rationalize later in these situations.
Walikum Salam Imam Zaid.
I don't think it's fair to mention his contributions and services without mentioning how he was treated at Zaytuna in the months leading to him leaving "voluntarily". I don't want to put you on the spot or guilt trip you. You had nothing to do with that episode. But I still find the lack of public support for him by his peers and colleagues on that issue to be a disservice to him and the community. We have a habit of brushing things under the carpet to avoid fitna for public good. But I believe increasingly it has been weaponized to stifle genuine conversation that benefits the community.
As Salaam Alaikum,
@ImamZaidShakir narration.
@MLFA Muslim Legal Fund of America’s 25th Anniversary Gala honored Dr. Hatem Bazian with its Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a leading Muslim American scholar, longtime educator, organizer, and advocate for justice.
I know we Muslims are bad to each other. But in any Muslim country if this happened, there would be some who would jump to distract the tiger or even try to save this guy's life. If there were weapons, they would definitely shoot the animal to save the guy (regardless of the reasons why he jumped in the first place). Westerners commenting on this are happy that the tiger was not killed, and that guy should not have been there.
One of the reasons I abandoned living in the West (retrospectively in any case) was because I knew if there ever was a situation where I or my family needed help, few would care for me because a) no one wants to endanger their safety for mine, b) they will be debating why this guy put himself in that particular situation in the first place. Rationalizing, not acting.
In Muslims countries, people act first and rationalize later in these situations.
🚨 URGENT — NEW VIDEO 🎥
The footage is disturbing. At first, the man appears to face the tiger without an immediate attack. Moments later, the situation turns terrifying, with the tiger biting and dragging him.
⚠️ What happened in those moments is difficult to watch. A tragic reminder that even when a wild animal seems calm, it remains unpredictable.
🙏 Respect the victim and his family. Please avoid sharing graphic footage.
