Loophole for citizenship in the EU?
Recently a friend of mine told me that because a great-grandfather of his was from a European country, he was able to get obtain citizenship. Or something like that. Ever heard of such a thing?
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Yes! I recently found out that I could become an Irish citizen through the Foreign Births Registry, which lets people who have an Irish parent or grandparent become an Irish citizen. Being an Irish citizen makes you an EU citizen too, so you can live and work in member countries with relative ease (compared to trying to work in the EU with non-EU citizenship, which is a bitch).
It would be worth checking your family history, because there could be an Irish side to your family, hooray for loopholes!
I’m not sure about any other countries, but I expect a fair few of them would have a similar system.
Yes, depending on the country and the person, one can apply based on one’s family history, as matches the laws of a member country.
I have Swiss citizenship because I was born there to a Swiss mother and American father. Swiss law then was that you are a citizen of your father’s country, so I was a US citizen only from birth. I guess I was in my early teens when they changed the eligibility laws, so my mother got me dual citizenship.
At that time, only I was eligible because I was born there, but my brothers were not, because they were born in the US. They have since changed the laws so that my brothers and my son are also dual citizens now.
Switzerland is not in the EU; if it makes a difference.
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