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Anyone here a dual citizen?

My mum is looking into getting Polish citizenship. My grandads from there and we're looking into buying some land and building some holiday homes since we spend such a long time there. I'm interested in applying myself, chances are I'll end up spending a good chunk of my time there now I can work anywhere with my job.

I believe to kick start it you need the birth certificates and the likes of the person from that country, visit their embassy in your country and go through a lot of legal rigmarole. At least thats what we've been up to!

Can you have triple citizenship? Along with having a Polish grandfather, a full 50% of me comes from Wales! The peninsula it is.
 
McGiord said:
Sounds like a Good Plan, to study in Europe, depending on the Country you choose and if you qualify you could get a very good University/College education with a minor investment.

Also if you can't get the citizenship directly, you may apply for a student visa, or resident visa depending on the Country you'll like to go.
In most of the Countries after you live there for X amounts of years you can obtain the citizenship, every country has their own laws/rules.

For example my wife's step father was from Spain, and he recognized her as his daughter in Venezuela, she obtained the spanish citizenship, and now our newborn daughter, who was born in the USA can also claim the venezuelan and spanish citizenship.

I have a friend whose Father is Mexican, and his mother venezuelan, he was born in Venezuela, and he also has the Mexican citizenship. In addition to that he has a daughter from his first marriage, her mother also has dual citizenship venezuelan and spanish, therefore this daughter has venezuelan, spanish and mexican citizenship + US resident status.

Learn other languages + the whole experience of living in another country is very wise and will make you a better person.

Good luck!
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My parents have really suggested this. My oldest sister took eight years of French and spent semesters of college in France and Martinique. French really tied into her major well, which was art. My youngest sister is currently a junior in college, and has spent this academic year in Italy. Her major is communications, and she wants to get into broadcast journalism. She's working on getting an internship with a major news company for this summer.

Both of my sisters are fluent in those languages now.

As for me, I have one year of high school French under my belt, and I don't know what I want to get into. I like just about every aspect of television and am wiling to work in just about any field. Broadcast news also has a particular appeal to me. I'd love to study/work/live in France, but I also really like Southeast Asia.
 
iMacZealot said:
I'm a naturalised US citizen, but since my mother's grandparents came from Ireland, for some reason, she can become a dual citizen, which I guess means that I could become a dual citizen as well, but my mom hasn't done that.
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It all looks brain-muddlingly confusing to me:

Regarding your mother: If one of your grandparents is an Irish citizen but none of your parents was born in Ireland, you may become an Irish citizen.

Regarding you: Unless at least one parent or grandparent was an Irish citizen at the time of your birth, you cannot claim Irish citizenship on the basis of extended previous ancestry.

Does this mean:

(a) The fact that your mother is entitled to be an Irish citizen, even if she never took out citizenship, entitles you to citizenship

or

(b) The fact that your mother had not taken out Irish citizenship before your birth date means you are not entitled?

:confused:
 
Hello.there said:
It all looks brain-muddlingly confusing to me:

Regarding your mother: If one of your grandparents is an Irish citizen but none of your parents was born in Ireland, you may become an Irish citizen.

Regarding you: Unless at least one parent or grandparent was an Irish citizen at the time of your birth, you cannot claim Irish citizenship on the basis of extended previous ancestry.

Does this mean:

(a) The fact that your mother is entitled to be an Irish citizen, even if she never took out citizenship, entitles you to citizenship

or

(b) The fact that your mother had not taken out Irish citizenship before your birth date means you are not entitled?

:confused:
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I'm not too interested in getting dual Irish citizenship, nor is my mom. She just told me as we were getting our passports out to go to Mexico that my uncle has dual citizenship because his and her grandparents were from Ireland.
 
raggedjimmi said:
My mum is looking into getting Polish citizenship. My grandads from there and we're looking into buying some land and building some holiday homes since we spend such a long time there. I'm interested in applying myself, chances are I'll end up spending a good chunk of my time there now I can work anywhere with my job.
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Whats the point? Poland is in the EU now, your free to work and live there whether you are a citizen or not.

God knows enough Polish people live and work near me. Polish is almost the second language round my way.
 
EricNau said:
May I ask which citizenship you acquired first? As far as I'm aware, it is not possible under German nationality law to apply for German citizenship without denouncing all allegiances to other countries first (except in rare circumstances).
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I was born in the US, and I got the German citizenship as I spend almost all of my time over there. I work for Lufthansa, and they asked me to get a citizenship. I'm not sure which exception I met, but I carry a German citizenship and passport.
 
Cromulent said:
Whats the point? Poland is in the EU now, your free to work and live there whether you are a citizen or not.

God knows enough Polish people live and work near me. Polish is almost the second language round my way.
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Something about land. Not sure on the details exactly but for my parents to build a (large?) house there they need to be citizens. Or was it to own a large plot of land? Well it was something about property.
 
Hello.there said:
Okay. I suppose it would only be of use to you if you wanted to work in the EU.
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Go get the Irish citizenship. Then you can work in any EU country, which is also useful while you're studying abroad. It makes all the bureaucracy less irritating and if you're stipend is not good enough, you can work at a bar or whatever.

akonradi said:
I was born in the US, and I got the German citizenship as I spend almost all of my time over there. I work for Lufthansa, and they asked me to get a citizenship. I'm not sure which exception I met, but I carry a German citizenship and passport.
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Lucky.
 
jng said:
Go get the Irish citizenship. Then you can work in any EU country, which is also useful while you're studying abroad. It makes all the bureaucracy less irritating and if you're stipend is not good enough, you can work at a bar or whatever.
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How does it make it more useful studying abroad?
 
Yes, Australian, By Birth, and British by both Parents. YAY. leave oz on oz pport, get to england on english pport!!!!!!! yay, the lines are shorter!!!!! so i can live and work anywhere in OZ or the EU!!!! wooties
 
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