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Should there be a migration path for questions from the Travel site to this site?

A moderator has confirmed that this site will be going through the first phase of graduation (removal of "beta" label, full moderator elections, etc.) this month. There have been ...
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Reduce number of votes required to close duplicate questions

Probably, due to the Expatriates specifics, some topics (Blue card, residence permits) regularly suffer from duplicate questions. Only for Germany-related questions, I have marked almost 30 duplicates:...
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Duplicate questions because of migration from Travel:SE

A couple of times (that I know about), people have asked a question on Travel:SE; been told that it is really on topic here; duplicated the question here; ... and then the original question has been ...
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What more is needed to be promoted out of beta?

I'm curious - I was with Travel.SE right through beta, and now with Expats, and it's been longer with expats and still in beta. All of our area 51 stats are currently ok or excellent. What else is ...
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Expatriates sucks because most questions are about Immigration

As an expatriate, I was really hoping for interesting questions and dialog about the expatriate life; that is, best practices in getting settled with a new culture, how to balance the responsibilities ...
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Can we add an 'overstay' tag?

I have seen a few questions that mention overstaying a visa, and it's exactly the kind of thing people might search for on this board - e.g. applying for citizenship, would a previous overstay harm my ...
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Expats alias, but not meta.expats?

We can use the alias expats.stackexchange.com to get to expatriates.stackexchange.com. However, meta.expats.stackexchange.com doens't work. Any chance we can get this alias added as well?
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Tag synonyms: voting -> elections

Should we make voting a synonym of elections ?
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Other languages barriers

I have a strong feeling that keeping the site English only is going to radiccclay hinder traffic hits from searches. Not only that, some answer, like this. Is it true that having speed camera ...
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Expats vs Expatriates?

It may already be too late for this, but any thoughts on making it expats.SE rather than expatriates.SE? I've lived in several countries now and been part of a few expat communities, and it's very ...
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