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In reply to the discussion: OMFG!! with new news to make this more clear. [View all]DFW
(54,341 posts)30. Germany is looser granting citizenship to people of German parentage or ancestry.
A guy I know from northern California got freaked out by all the US Government spying (Cheneybush era stuff) and high taxes (he is well-off, too). He found that a grandfather of his emigrated from Germany to Colombia in 1914. He got the documentation together, and when he found the name of the boat and the date it sailed, it was the last bit of info the Germans required to grant him German citizenship. He renounced his US citizenship, kept his Colombian citizenship (from his dad), and now has a legal residence in the tax haven of Gibraltar (!!), a de-facto residence in Geneva, Switzerland, and now travels problem-free throughout the EU as a German. He has never lived in Germany and speaks no German. Go figure.
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Best wishes to you, but I think he isn't giving you the complete, true, story yet. n/t
PoliticAverse
Feb 2017
#3
You know, you CAN read these threads with a critical eye without posting like a dick.
DRoseDARs
Feb 2017
#8
Germany doesn't allow dual citizenship? Tell that to my dual citizen German-American daughters
DFW
Feb 2017
#29
Yes, but also German citizenship is considered lost if a German citizen with two German parents...
Spider Jerusalem
Feb 2017
#35
"I have people declaring he is lying and I know he is not." - how do you "know" that?
PoliticAverse
Feb 2017
#22
If your boyfriend was naturalized he would have a certificate to prove it.
VMA131Marine
Feb 2017
#25
Maybe he had the right to US citizenship but never got around to getting a passport
flamingdem
Feb 2017
#26
Not just the Republicans that have discussed the idea of ending birthright citizenship...
PoliticAverse
Feb 2017
#40
If he is lying to Doreen that is her business to deal with...not ours. We don't know them or
TrekLuver
Feb 2017
#41
Don't count on it, it was all over our news that local Irish immigrants are very worried as well.
NotThisTime
Feb 2017
#74
Your boyfriend was singled out on the manifest halfway through his itinerary?
EarthFirst
Feb 2017
#69