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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Clicky Poll: Citizenship
I tried to get the major countries I've seen on here (and threw in a few others)...I can't list every country so sorry if I missed yours!
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Re: Clicky Poll: Citizenship
Cecilia arrived 12 October 2012
BFP Apr 2012, EDD Dec 19 2012 * twin h/b at 6wk, 9wk scan * Baby A lost at 12wks, Baby B was my rainbow born at 36wks
That's cool! I always heard the UK only allows dual citizenship. I thought they didn't allow for three. I guess I heard wrong.
It's a 'don't ask don't tell' situation. I'll have to travel into and out of the US on my US passport, they dont' want to know about my other citizenships. It means though that if anything happens while i'm in the UK, the US embassy won't help me since I'm a UK citizen first while I'm here.
BFP Apr 2012, EDD Dec 19 2012 * twin h/b at 6wk, 9wk scan * Baby A lost at 12wks, Baby B was my rainbow born at 36wks
It's a boy! -- EDD 11.17.11
Back in the USA...for now...
I'm Dutch.
I would've only been able to get US citizenship if I renounced Dutch citizenship and there was no way I'd do that. (That, or I would have to marry a US citizen, which I doubt FH would be too happy about.)
The US would've probably granted me dual, since about 75 percent of my family are US citizens and they could have pretty much all have been willing sponsor me, but since I didn't want to give up being Dutch that didn't happen.
My food blog
What I'm looking forward to in 2012:
Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DYou don't have to renounce previous citizenship to be naturalized in America. There are residency requirements (as with most countries if you want to get their citizenship) but I don't think you have to prove you've renounced your previous citizenship in order to become American.
If that's what you meant. Not sure if your situation is wonky in some other way.
It costs almost ?900 to get naturalized in the UK...
For the two of us to get British citizeship, it's going to cost about 3,000 pounds. so like $4,500. It seems worth it to us right now but it's kind of overwhelming to have that as part of our budget for next year!
BFP Apr 2012, EDD Dec 19 2012 * twin h/b at 6wk, 9wk scan * Baby A lost at 12wks, Baby B was my rainbow born at 36wks
Holy crap. That is expensive. What is the naturalisation process like? Here it's an interview, a written and verbal test. I have no clue about American government, so I'm getting a little worried about how I will fare.
Yup, we haven't hesitated!
The way we came in was on my DH's work permit which you can have for 5 years. That was like ?800 or something but we didn't have to pay it since DH's work covered it. After 5 years you have to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) which was like ?1,600 I think? (Tried to look it up but it's gone up since we did it in February!). DH's work helped out with that one too which was lucky and unexpected. After a year we can apply for citizenship - so in February 2012. Right now that's ?1,294 for the two of us but it's likely to go up by then also!
But having an EU passport is worth it to us. We can stay here as long as we want with our ILR but I think it will be much easier to plan our lives with an EU passport. In my fantasy life, we end up in Italy some day...
BFP Apr 2012, EDD Dec 19 2012 * twin h/b at 6wk, 9wk scan * Baby A lost at 12wks, Baby B was my rainbow born at 36wks
From start to finish, the UK process took me 8 years and cost me ?4000 (approx).
Totally worth it.
I'm dual Aussie and UK - only Aussie on the board (assuming Knitty doesn't show up and I sincerely hope I haven't jinxed that!)