Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible

[Anonymous]

About $2500 and one year for husband and two kids to get citizenship to an EU state through husband’s father. Options are good. Paperwork wasn’t that bad just a lot of mailing back and forth for apostiles.

[Anonymous]

If all else fails, Greece offers golden visas in exchange for some investment. It recently went from 250k to 800k euro though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am interested. My cousins all made sure to get citizenship in EU but I didn't pursue anything like that.

Honestly, the U.S. has changed before our eyes. It'll be a third world nation before I'm old.

I'm not keen on picking up and leaving, but I'd like to have options for the future. The day the U.S. blatantly turns into a police state is the day I'm leaving.

What’s making it 3rd world?

DP. But oh, let's see:

-decreasing life expectancy;
-the opioid epidemic that we've failed to hold anyone accountable for because we've hollowed out the FDA. Did you know Purdue Pharma's next target for Oxy was pediatric patients?;
-income inequality;
-a corrupt Supreme Court that just eliminated the ability of Executive branch agencies to promulgate regulations;
-an Administration hostile to environmental protections like clean water and clean air;
-the leading cause of death in children is firearms.

The upper class will be insulated from most of the above, but that's also true in 3rd world countries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the benefit of EU citizenship?

Can live and work in nearly countries most of which have very high qualities of life.

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

My parents left croatia for a better quality of life.

[Anonymous]

How does one find a lawyer for this? My grandfather is Italian.

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Anonymous wrote:I know this is an old thread, but has anyone successfully gotten their German citizenship?
I ask because one person I know who had a grandfather who left before ww1 was told that there was no record of him, or what record existed probably was lost due to the following 2 wars

Germany citizenship through ancestry is quite hard---you need to have been born to at least one German parent. Grandparents don't count.
See below: (it says by wedlock as the requirements if you were born to unmarried German parents are different).

I looked into this (and went as far as talking to a paralegal at a firm in Germany that specializes in immigration) as I have 4 grandparents who were born in Germany. My 80 year old mother was born in the US to German citizen parents (they immigrated to the US but did not become US citizens until the year following her birth). My mother would be eligible to apply for German citizenship and I might be if she first became a citizen (I was never quite clear on this). I am not eligible on my own. My mom has no interest in German citizenship so my quest ended there.



German citizenship by being born in wedlock
Children born in wedlock between Jan. 1, 1914 and Dec. 31, 1974, acquired German citizenship only if the father was a German citizen at the time of their birth.

Children born to a German mother in wedlock between Jan. 1, 1964 and Dec. 31, 1974 only acquired German citizenship if they would have become stateless otherwise.

Children born in wedlock after Jan. 1, 1975, acquired German citizenship if one of the parents was a German citizen at the time of their birth.

Children born in wedlock between April 1, 1953 and Dec. 31, 1974 to a German mother and a non-German father did not become German citizens by birth. However, during the years 1975, 1976 and 1977, their parents could claim German citizenship for them. The deadline for this procedure originally ended on Dec. 31, 1977. Since August 20th, 2021, children or their offspring can obtain German citizenship on the grounds of declaration. This possiblity will be available for the next 10 years. Please check here for further details.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've looked into it. It can get a little tricky because borders have moved.

For instance, my grandparents were Polish, and came over to America in the late 1800s when all these present-day-countries were under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, after WW2 the lines were redrawn and their villages are now in the Western Ukraine. So does that mean we look toward Polish citizenship or Ukrainian? Messy!

Yes - my ancestors cam from Poland, but due to the borders I don't think we are eligible for citizenship.

My MIL is eligible for Irish citizenship. I wish we had persuaded her to get it before we had kids. That would have made them eligible. And while I don't know all the details or requirements, it is possible to use that citizenship to apply for college in the EU as a passport holder. So if you have a mom/MIL or dad/FIL that are eligible, encourage them to apply before your kids are born!

This is not true unless she was born an Irish citizen in which case your kids are eligible for citizenship.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving-country/irish-citizenship/irish-citizenship-through-birth-or-descent/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am interested. My cousins all made sure to get citizenship in EU but I didn't pursue anything like that.

Honestly, the U.S. has changed before our eyes. It'll be a third world nation before I'm old.

I'm not keen on picking up and leaving, but I'd like to have options for the future. The day the U.S. blatantly turns into a police state is the day I'm leaving.

What’s making it 3rd world?

DP. But oh, let's see:

-decreasing life expectancy;
-the opioid epidemic that we've failed to hold anyone accountable for because we've hollowed out the FDA. Did you know Purdue Pharma's next target for Oxy was pediatric patients?;
-income inequality;
-a corrupt Supreme Court that just eliminated the ability of Executive branch agencies to promulgate regulations;
-an Administration hostile to environmental protections like clean water and clean air;
-the leading cause of death in children is firearms.

The upper class will be insulated from most of the above, but that's also true in 3rd world countries.

+1

Also, billionaires (oligarchs) in power who are beholden to corporations and lack of full democracy status.

https://thefulcrum.us/ethics-leadership/democracy-index