Americans Are Using Their Ancestry to Gain Citizenship in Europe

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-19/how-to-get-irish-and-italian-citizenship-more-americans-apply-for-eu-passports

by twobitshifter • 4 years ago

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JoeAltmaier• 4 years ago

Is this news? Countries eager to have Americans retire back to 'the old country' have been encouraging this for a long time.

withinboredom• 4 years ago

I think it’s surprising? that there has been an uptick. A number of my friends have followed me to the Netherlands in the last year or two after me being here almost 5 years. I get emails ~monthly asking questions about moving here, just in the past year.

It def feels like an exodus (albeit small scale, maybe just an order or half more than usual) of tech workers from the states.

Kon-Peki• 4 years ago

Did you get a Dutch passport, or just the DAFT visa? The Netherlands makes it pretty cheap and easy for self-employed Americans to live & work there, but that's not the same as the dual citizenship angle that this article is talking about.

neutered_knot• 4 years ago

Archive link: https://archive.ph/bgYoq

fxtentacle• 4 years ago

"The US has become so violent and backwards, while Europe is safe and cheaper"

(quoted inside the article)

adam_arthur2• 4 years ago

Cheaper if you’re not on a European salary, maybe

zeruch2• 4 years ago

No, generally in terms of QOL. If you make less, but what you have goes further (because of offsets like national health services and otherwise functioning societies)there are some tradeoffs that some folks are ready to make.

TomMasz• 4 years ago

I tried to obtain a Polish passport but my grandparents left the country when it was still part of Russia under the Tsar. You have to have ancestors who were there post-WWI to qualify.

europeanguy• 4 years ago

Oof that sucks. It's like you got screwed because you got screwed.

Am4TIfIsER0ppos• 4 years ago

Can I somehow do the opposite? I want to flee communist occupied europe for the freedom of america. I'll trade one of you. You come pay taxes and I go for speech and guns.

oriettaxx• 4 years ago

uh, GREAT!

what is the problem?

state borders are ridiculous, and not just for the rich....

some more years and it will be more clear that the "king is naked".

I feel so bad for all law enforcement workers worldwide: what a stupid job! they made a documentary about those workers in France or Belgium, cannot recall, and how they fell by enforcing borders laws for years... then the EU came and they were not just completely useless, but they also fell they invest their energy for years in the name of the state for something completely useless, poor them.... try to explain your kids you did something for years that then become totally useless... if I recall well, many were pretty depressed ....

ahahaha: my 2 cents: trust yourself and not so easily what seems normal just 'cause the state or many says it is :)

Americans Are Using Their Ancestry to Gain Citizenship in Europe

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