Can unpaid collections be enforced on an individual who has moved out of the country and can that bad credit affect their credit in their new residence?

Answer 1

It depends! Let's face it any time potential creditors find out that you have stiffed previous creditors, those creditors don't care if the creditors were foreign or not. Generally speaking if you leave the country you will probably be able to walk away from your debts here because those debts are tracked by the credit bureaus through the social security number. If you leave the country those creditors will continually look for you here, see if you pop up somewhere to work, or purchase property. Once you leave you're outside the system, but if you wave a flag from across the border, they WILL come after you if its worth their while and never forget, if its enough money they will find you. If you're a dual citizen you're more likely to get away with it. If you're not and you emigrate, you're not likely to get away with it because when you apply for a visa generally the host country will want to check up on you and might even run a credit check on you which actually DOES appear on your credit report here. So when your creditors come and look for you they will see that 'such and such' country ran a credit check on you and know where you are.....

Good luck