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In reply to the discussion: I'm getting near "that age". What can someone tell me about how Social Security is taxed? [View all]DFW
(54,369 posts)These days, I spend half my time filling out paperwork, just so I have all the necessary forms and permits to visit countries that I used to travel to as if they were across the street. In U.S. terms, they practically still are across the street, but with all the virus precautions, I have to bring a folder full of forms every time I go somewhere. Just to get down here to Spain from Germany, I had to get several forms filled out online, and if you make one tiny error, you get refused. As it is (I'm now in downtown Madrid), at the airport, if you didn't have EVERYTHING the Government of Spain wanted (I did), you were refused entry until they were happy with what you COULD furnish, or else got shunted off to some testing area. If I get back to Düsseldorf tomorrow night without incident, I'll be one very happy man--tired, but happy!