I'm almost Dutch!
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maxcelcatYou might recall a while back I exploring getting a Dutch passport. Or, more correctly, waiting to see if my Dutch-born mother was worthy of Dutch citizenship, and how that might roll over to her offspring.
They're a crazy bunch, the Dutch, they have a stupidly large number of rules and regulations. As someone said "The Dutch have a form for everything". Anyway, it turns out that because my mother was naturalised before she was 18, as far as the Netherlands are concerned, she's still Dutch! How does that work???
So it should be easy for her to become a dual citizen.
She asked the embassy how this affects her kids, and was told that we had to have been registered with the Dutch authorities between 1985 and 1987! Presumably there was some kind of legislative changes in both those years, one which would have helped us, and one which must have rolled it back... She's going to apply anyway, and see what happens.
It used to be that my sister and I could only even consider it if our father was Dutch, which he ain't. They changed the rules in the early eighties to either parent, but didn't make it retrospective! Misogynistic bunch...
I might have to learn Dutch, but then I might be entitled to a Dutch passport, which would mean I could easily work and travel anywhere in the EU without a visa, and presumably could also take along my "lady love" with me as my defacto or something. Europe here I come!
Man, more weird random accidents of my birth and parentage.
They're a crazy bunch, the Dutch, they have a stupidly large number of rules and regulations. As someone said "The Dutch have a form for everything". Anyway, it turns out that because my mother was naturalised before she was 18, as far as the Netherlands are concerned, she's still Dutch! How does that work???
So it should be easy for her to become a dual citizen.
She asked the embassy how this affects her kids, and was told that we had to have been registered with the Dutch authorities between 1985 and 1987! Presumably there was some kind of legislative changes in both those years, one which would have helped us, and one which must have rolled it back... She's going to apply anyway, and see what happens.
It used to be that my sister and I could only even consider it if our father was Dutch, which he ain't. They changed the rules in the early eighties to either parent, but didn't make it retrospective! Misogynistic bunch...
I might have to learn Dutch, but then I might be entitled to a Dutch passport, which would mean I could easily work and travel anywhere in the EU without a visa, and presumably could also take along my "lady love" with me as my defacto or something. Europe here I come!
Man, more weird random accidents of my birth and parentage.
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Date: 2006-06-13 06:30 am (UTC)*thinks*
Wait a minute....I am English! Sorry. It's been one of those days :P
A few of my friends have been able to claim dual citizenship thanks to having parents born in the UK. I'm not sure if they had to go through a scary set of rules and regulations to do it though.
I was born in Manchester so I don't think I have any problems as far as being able to work over there goes. Well, if I could ever save up the money to get there, I don't think I'd have any problems.