Multi-millionaire Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has his eye on Australia as a nice place to end up when he eventually decides to settle down. According to the Australian edition of the International Business Times, Wozniak is well on the way to formally gaining Australian citizenship.
The IB Times says that Wozniak was granted permanent resident status this past weekend due to his status as a "distinguished person"—a common term that many countries use in their immigration criteria to allow famous people to quickly establish residences without having to meet other more difficult immigration requirements.
Wozniak plans to purchase a home in Sydney, where he teaches classes at the city’s University of Technology. Woz also has family there: his son is already a resident, thanks to a marriage to an Australian citizen.
Residency is only one step on the path toward actual citizenship, but Wozniak seems focused on the idea of being able to eventually relocate his entire family to Australia. "I want to be a distinguished part of this country and some day I may say I lived and died an Australian, and that would be a really nice thing to be able to say," he told the Australian Financial Review.
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