Getting paid from Fiverr: from a dollar balance to your local account
Fiverr counts in dollars, you spend in euros and your family receives in local currency. Between the gig price and your account sit an advertised…
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Living between two countries, explained
Clear guides on paperwork, money and security for people who moved from Latin America to Europe. Written by the team that runs the platform.
Getting paid from Upwork: from available balance to your local account
The client approved and there is a number on your profile. That number is not your money yet: it goes through three states, and between the last one…
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Paid through Deel: what happens between «paid» and your account
The invoice says «paid» and the money is nowhere. The leg that decides speed and final amount is not the company payment: it is the withdrawal you…
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The hardest part of your first year abroad is almost never the money
We asked on Instagram and we are still reading the answers. From the support side we see something similar: money is almost never the main problem,…
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Converting your salary to pesos does not tell you if you are better off
We all run the same numbers on arrival: salary times exchange rate, then send that figure to the family chat. It is the least informative…
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Latino students in Europe: how family money reaches you without getting held
Your parents send your monthly money and it ends up under review. It happens a lot, almost always for the same reason, and two details fix it.
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Digital nomad in Spain: the money part nobody explains
There are a hundred guides on the visa and almost none on what comes next: where you get paid, in what currency, and which documents prove that…
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Latino freelancers getting paid in euros: what nobody tells you about collecting
You landed the European client. Now comes the part nobody explains: how they pay you, in what currency, who keeps the spread and which paperwork you…
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Opening a European IBAN account without a NIE: what works and what does not
You arrived two weeks ago, you have no NIE, and you need an IBAN to get paid. What works, what does not, and why most verification rejections are…
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Somebody went through this before you
Almost everything you will solve this year, someone solved six months ago. The problem is not a lack of information: it is that it is disorganised…
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What a machine decides at BNKA and what a person decides
Saying "we use AI" means nothing. This is the concrete map: which parts of the product have models, which decisions are never automated, and what we…
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Why one transfer arrives in seconds and another takes three days
The same word, transfer, describes completely different processes. Understanding which rails your money travels on explains the timings, the costs…
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