Huh.

[apocalypsos]

I wonder if I could be eligible for dual citizenship.

Not that I could actually DO anything with it, God knows, since I'm broke and as much as I'd love to go to Germany or pretty much anywhere in Europe I can barely afford to leave my house, much less the country.

But, yeah, my great-grandmother was born in Germany. Come to think of it, I think my other great-grandmother on the other side of my family may have been born in Poland, too. I'm a lot more sure of my grandpa Al's mother, though. He researched his family going back something like two hundred years and it's a metric fuckton of German farmers. (I'd be tempted to check and see if I could get away with it through Italian law, but I'm pretty sure the Italian bits immigrated before the Polish bits and definitely before the German bits and besides, I'm Italian through adoption, not blood.)

It'd be something neat to have, at least, if nothing else.

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[fyrdrakken]

In early November of 2004 I found that the possibility of citizenship for an EU country was suddenly extremely fucking relevant to my interests, so I looked at the requirements for Irish citizenship-by-descent. I had a great-grandfather who was born there, but it turned out that -- though my mother qualified for citizenship, had she bothered to gather all the required birth certificates and marriage licenses and whatnot to prove the relationship and filled out the required forms and paid the fee (all of which I would have done on her behalf if it would have done me any good), I was a generation too far removed from the Old Country.

I should look into Germany, maybe, though. A great-grandmother was born in Frankfurt. (And, as I found out when I was living in London, I have a doppelganger in Dusseldorf. Possibly a distant cousin.)