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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.
S/O moving to the UK...
Marrying a Brit is one way in... what about marrying an Italian? FH and I are thinking about where we want to go after Turkmenistan and I'd really like to stay overseas, but I need to be somewhere a bit more Western. London has lots of corporate law jobs (well, relatively speaking), so that's an idea, but I know it's hard as shiit to get a visa.
So, do Italians need visas? If not, can I tag along if married to an Italian, or does it have to be a Brit specifically?
TIA!
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Re: S/O moving to the UK...
Yay!!! This is what I thought and was totally planning my fake life in London on that assumption, but then you said marry a Brit and I was thinking you said Brit specifically for a reason and started to think, "well, they are more strict about animals and didn't join Schengen or the Euro and generally seem like bigger hard asses about everything" so I got worried that they were an outlier in this as well.
I did think "but if they don't do that then how the hell are they really in the EU at all," but I still got a bit paranoid. I'll check out that site.
I don't know what the rule is with other EU countries, but if you're married to an Italian you are eligible for a passport after 3 years of marriage, and only after 1.5 years if you have a child (yay Catholic countries!).
We haven't reached that point yet, so I'm only saying this out of our limited understanding, but DH is usually good with these this kind of information.
Yes, I'm excited about the Italian passport thing. It's a shame you have to wait 3 years now; it used to be much faster. But we're only going to get married this October (as you're probably sick of seeing due to my ticker), and hoping to move to London in the next year or so. It's all just talk at this point, but that other poster got me thinking.
I always thought it was due to their having an aging population more than the Catholicism thing, but whatever helps!
Well, that makes much more sense than my idea.
I just assumed the government relied on Italian MILs to exert pressure on couples to have babies, stay married, and in the country (close to nonna) so they might as well be citizens.