Anonymous
Post 10/25/2022 10:21     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
Anonymous wrote:We just started the process for Slovakia. My grandmother was born in Slovakia, and I and my children all qualify. Slovakia passed the law less than a year ago.


Oh, wow. I was wondering about this. Both of my grandparents were born in Slovakia!
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2022 08:11     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
Don't you need to serve in the military if you receive another country's passport?
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2022 07:34     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
Do I have any chance in Germany? Grandparents all came from Germany in the 1930s. However, my parents were born in the US in the 1940s. Extended family (great aunts and uncles and their kids and their grandkids) all remained in Germany. We are not Jewish.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2022 05:21     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
Anonymous wrote:I am eligible. However my father did not register with Foreign Births Register (Ireland). Too late now, he's deceased. We'd have to link to family still living there.


Then you’re not eligible. Your father (assuming he had a grandparent born in Ireland is eligible), but you can never get it through him if he didn’t get it before your birth, and you also can never get it through family in Ireland at this point. Sorry to break it to you.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2022 21:55     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"This is wild to me. This was one event and if it hadn’t been on the news, 99.9999% of Americans wouldn’t have even known about it. Meaning there is absolutely no effect on your daily life. There are many problems in the US but 1/6 really isn’t something to dwell on"

This is the absolute dumbest post on this site today.

Wth? whoever you are brain dead comes to mind.

HOW DARE YOU?

We have an active coup how the hell do you not understand that?

The Republican party yes the whole party voted against your voting rights. They are literally trying to hand us to Russia on a platter. The US will die a horrific death and you are insane to not be paying attention. Shame on you.


This was not a coup and you need to get a new news channel. I would love to sit down to discuss a list of things from each party that "risks democracy" and I can guarantee you that the Democrats would win hands down.


it is not the Dems that people are afraid of.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2022 21:54     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
Anonymous wrote:Russians are pouring in over the Alaskan border. Coincidence? 😉


Build! The! Wall!
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2022 21:28     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We’d like to leave because the gun situation is untenable and getting more horrifying every day.


Guns everywhere! My Lord, it is quite the tenses!


Yeah, it’s really nice to go places and not have to consider that you might get shot. Imagine, kids just going to school and no shooter drills. Crazy. We have more guns than people.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2022 20:47     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I hold dual citizenship and split my time between the US and France for family reasons. Americans who think Europe is somehow economically and socially better off than the US are naïve or misinformed, and are in for a rude shock. Frankly, if I had to pick where I'd spend 100% of my time, I would choose the US.


Couldnt agree more. My husband was dual and renounced his citizenship to the European country. We visit, but have zero interest in citizenship. Americans truly do not understand how good we have it and have an idealized view of Europe that is completely detached from reality, esp wrt social issues and politics.


People who think women are better off in Europe are delusional.


I am from Detroit. People in Europe are definitely better off than people in Detroit.

If you’re UMC/wealthy, the US is great! If you are not, there are better options elsewhere if you can get there.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2022 20:37     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I hold dual citizenship and split my time between the US and France for family reasons. Americans who think Europe is somehow economically and socially better off than the US are naïve or misinformed, and are in for a rude shock. Frankly, if I had to pick where I'd spend 100% of my time, I would choose the US.


Particularly if you want to heat your home or apartment this winter.

try paying for college and private insurance here in the US. No one in Europe would want the US system.


Except for all of the ones who come here for college because they can’t get into the university in their home country.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2022 20:32     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I hold dual citizenship and split my time between the US and France for family reasons. Americans who think Europe is somehow economically and socially better off than the US are naïve or misinformed, and are in for a rude shock. Frankly, if I had to pick where I'd spend 100% of my time, I would choose the US.


Couldnt agree more. My husband was dual and renounced his citizenship to the European country. We visit, but have zero interest in citizenship. Americans truly do not understand how good we have it and have an idealized view of Europe that is completely detached from reality, esp wrt social issues and politics.


People who think women are better off in Europe are delusional.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2022 20:27     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
The population of the US is roughly 332,400,000. It’s news that, with 40% of Americans eligible for a foreign passport, 0.000988% of Americans have applied for Irish citizenship in the first 6 months of this year? Along with the 0.001113% of the population that is on the waiting list for Italian citizenship?

Considering that DHS has actually registered more than 2 million immigrants at the Mexican border so far this year, I think we’ll be ok.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2022 15:25     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
I am eligible. However my father did not register with Foreign Births Register (Ireland). Too late now, he's deceased. We'd have to link to family still living there.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2022 15:15     Subject: Re:Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
LOL. Yeah, right, we're racing to go back to Germany. <snort> That worked out so well for my ancestors. No, thanks. We'll stay right here in the good old USA and praise God that this is where we ended up.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2022 14:58     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
Anonymous wrote:We’d like to leave because the gun situation is untenable and getting more horrifying every day.


Guns everywhere! My Lord, it is quite the tenses!
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2022 12:57     Subject: Americans using their ancestry to gain European citizenship - 40% of Americans eligible
We’d like to leave because the gun situation is untenable and getting more horrifying every day.