In short: Yes.
But you're better off by getting your boots dirty. Professional nominees now involve too much risk for the cause of illegal evasion. I'll point out a few reasons why later.
On to the solution I use with great success: smurfs
It costs anywhere from 25 to 100 EUR to replace a set of lost/stolen Passport + national ID card in a typical EU state. Most IDs and passports are valid for either 5 or 10 years. You already know where I'm getting with this.
How do you get a set of ID documents from someone? You need a special kind of a person. A bum, an alchoholic, etc.
Chat up homeless-looking people. Refugee camps in France work well, but you'll at best get a Turkish passport. Most are African nationals. The city center of Brussels has a surprisingly high concentration of beggars and bums. Most from the Eastern EU and Morocco. But the Eastern EU itself works best as a hunting ground because the people willing to sell their higher caliber (EU) documents are conveniently near a place where they can replace them quickly, and for peanuts.
Offer 3-5x the document replacement cost. That's all there is to it. While you're at it, offer another 25 EUR to take a selfie. The "selfie" is Revolut video identification or equivalent. The bum does not know what's going on. Make sure he doesn't look like a complete ape.
Done correctly, you have a unique nominee nobody else uses. For a one-time expense of 250 EUR that covers up to 10 years. Sign anything you want on behalf of that bum, when you want, and for no fee. But the cost is not the only advantage. A professional nominee has a place of operation. He could bend the knee to government aggression, or satisfy their nosy noses, for a fee, or out of fear. A bum lives where he wants, and is essentially as traceable as a stray dog.
Bums are the new nominees.
Last edited: Jun 7, 2020
