CONSCIOUS CONTRACTING NEWS
Most Americans have never heard the term non-citizen national.
Yet federal law expressly recognizes the category.
In fact, Congress defined the term decades ago, and the definition remains part of federal law today.
The question is not whether the category exists.
The question is whether most pe...
A year from now, you can still be thinking about the process.
Still researching.
Still telling yourself you'll start "soon."
Still wondering what would have happened if you had taken the first step.
Or...
You can be the person who finally decided to move forward.
The person who gathered the do...
Most people assume the American National Passport process is going to be complicated.
They imagine stacks of paperwork.
They worry about the appointment.
They overthink every document, every word, and every possible question.
So they wait.
And wait.
Sometimes for months.
Sometimes for years.
...Most people don’t get stuck because the passport process is impossible.
They get stuck because they’ve built it up in their head.
The paperwork.
The appointment.
The explanatory statement.
The fear of doing something different from the default path.
Then they finally take the next step and realize…
...Most people encounter certain phrases throughout their lives without ever stopping to ask what they mean.
They're repeated in banking, government, law, commerce, and administration so often that they become part of the background noise.
One such phrase is:
"Full Faith and Credit."
You'll find it...
Most people go through life assuming words mean exactly what they think they mean.
Citizen means citizen.
Person means a living man or woman.
Estate means your property.
Trust means something held in confidence.
Simple, right?
But what happens when you discover that legal and administrative sy...
Most people assume that once they submit a passport application, the paperwork disappears into a government filing cabinet somewhere and is never seen again.
But what if that isn't the whole story?
What if the documents you submit become part of an official Department of State record?
And what if...