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**Tofu** or a S/O of the relocation thread
From Tofu's response to the relocation thread:
Or you could be Canadian or Australian and have a British grandparent, or just be Canadian or Australian and be under 28.
Does it have to be a British grandparent, or will any old EU Grandparent do?
And how does the Australian Citizen under 28 thing work? While old man DH doesn't qualify, we do have two children ready to graduate year 12 that H would LOVE to kick out of Australia for at least a few years.
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Re: **Tofu** or a S/O of the relocation thread
We are here because DH has a grandfather that is British. We were from a common wealth country so we met the criteria for an Ancestral visa.
I do think that for ancestral visa's the grandparent has to be British.
I think the under 28's can qualify for a visa that was similiar to the old 'holiday working visa', but I have no idea what tier visa that is now. Or its criteria.
However, I do know that some of my friends managed to get EU passports through their parents/grandparents.
That's the route I'm going for with an Italian passport. I just need to get off my butt and get the FOIA that says neither of my Great Grandfathers became US citizens prior to my grandfathers births. Oh, then I need to get marriage and birth records from late 19th century rural Italy... Thankfully I have all the info (names, cities and dates).
I hear there are companies in Italy that will do the ground work for you, or at least get the required paperwork that says no records are available. Now to find the companies and the money for it.
It cracks me up that my STEP CHILDREN can get Italian citizenship through me. Italians really does believe that everyone should be Italian ;-)
And on the same subject...
H's mom was Dutch and German. I think she was German and adopted by a Dutch family? H's dad was the only person in his family born outside of what is now Croatia.
Can H get Dutch or Croatian Citizenship through them? Would either of those help in assisting a global living? Not that he would ever do the work to apply, but if any of it would help the kids in the future, I could get him off his butt.
Read that as once I take care of the paperwork, he'll sign what needs to be signed at each step of the way.
That's EXACTLY why I haven't hired one yet.
What I should have done is just gone to Italy every few weeks while we were in France. But the odds of anyone speaking English in the small towns I would have been in were close to zero.
Was/is his mother a German citizen? Was he born after 1975? If the answer is yes to both of these questions he technically is a German citizen and just needs to fill out a mountain of paperwork, give them his mother's info and pertinent papers, and wait about four years for German bureaucracy to certify it. I am in the middle of this now.
I'm not sure of the German Citizenship bit. I know her parents that moved her to Australia were Dutch (or maybe one was Dutch and one was German?). H only found out she was adopted when we started our own immigration paperwork. But he was born before 1975.
MIL has passed, making these questions super hard to answer with 100% accuracy. I think getting my Italian passport would be much easier, since I have relatives with answers still alive.
Funny story (at least to me) about H and my Italian heritage. When we got engaged H knew he was going to get the side eye from some about marrying an American, but was OK with it. He loved me anyway
The owner of the yacht he worked on was Italian/Swiss and the wife was Italian. When they found out he was engaged, they sat him down to find out more about me. When it got to the part about me being "AMERICAN?!" H quickly threw in "well, she was born in America, but her family is Italian enough that she can get citizenship". All of a sudden he was marrying "an Italian/American and I must be a good girl". And the wife wanted to know if I had been taught how to cook. He answered Yes to both and a week later got a raise "to help support his new wife".
Sorry, my EU law is sketchy at best. Commonwealth citizens have eligiblity to apply for Tier 5 in the UK - just like the old working holidaymaker visa. However, if they can go for EU rights that would be much, much, much better for them - especially long term.
You could however get them into the UK on Tier 5 while processing their EU rights. Then they just switch in-country very easily.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/workingintheuk/tier5/youthmobilityscheme/
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
Thanks Tofu.
I just asked H about his mom. Turns out she always thought her name was XXX. She went to get her passport/Visa to go to the Netherlands and was told "you're not that person. Your last name is XXX" Turns out she does have a German Birth Certificate.
H and I will look into this further. If for no other reason than to get the kids an EU passport. Better to have it and not use it then to wait for laws to change,, people to pass away etc.