I have an American Passport and I’m eligible for EU citizenship. I get visa free access to only like 6 country’s more than America, and the country’s are like Gabon and Belarus. Is it truly worth it?
I hold both passports referenced above and live in the US. I will be traveling to the UK via Delta. The Delta app is telling me to apply for the ETA but my Irish citizenship should make that irrelevant. Do I just show up at the US airport and show my Irish passport to an agent? Or is it easier to just pay the fee for ETA? Delta does not allow me to have two passports on file so they have no awareness of my Irish passport.
I was raised by my grandmother. She was born in Mexico but came to the United States as a little girl and became legal resident of the United States.
I have her birth certificate and death certificate proving that she was a Mexican citizen and also deceased.
I'm estranged from my mother. We don't talk and I think she's a bad person. I don't want to engage with this person if I can help it. My biological mother is a united states citizen and she never applied for Mexican Citizenship even though she could have gotten it.
I want Dual Citizenship. I can get a copy of my biological mother's birth certificate proving my grandmother and grandma are my lineage.
Could I become a Mexican citizenship through this process or would my biological mother need to claim her Mexican citizenship before I can?
Has anyone been in this situation or similar?
Even if I could somehow pay or convince my biological mother to get her Mexican citizenship, that part of the family, they are the kinds of Mexicans who think they're better than people from actual Mexico and are basically Maga Latinos.
Long-time lurker, first-time poster — hoping some of you have hit this specific wall before.
Some background: we live in the UK. My wife and I had our son in Spain (long story, nothing dramatic, just where we were living at the time), and he's shortly going to have a Spanish passport through her side. Our daughter, by contrast, was born here in the UK and already has her British passport — no issues at all.
For our son, HMPO have written back asking for a pile of biographical details about my late mother (his paternal grandmother) — full name, date/place of birth, nationality, marriage details, etc. — to establish the chain of how my own citizenship was acquired, since apparently that determines whether it transmits automatically to a child born abroad. Problem is, she passed away some years ago and I genuinely don't have access to some of what they're asking for. I'm digging through old paperwork and considering ordering historical records, but it's slow going and clearly isn't resolving itself before we next need to travel.
So the practical question: in the meantime, can he travel to the UK on his Spanish passport using an ETA, given he's a British citizen's child even though the passport itself isn't sorted yet?
From what I've read, the answer seems to be yes for now — every non-British/non-Irish passport holder (EU nationals included, babies and children included) needs their own ETA to travel to/enter the UK as things currently stand, and there's no exemption just because a parent is British or a sibling already has a British passport. So as long as he's travelling on the Spanish passport, he'd need an ETA on that passport like any other Spanish national, separate from whatever happens with his British application.
Obviously if/when he's confirmed as British, that changes — dual British citizens can't use an ETA at all and are expected to travel on a British passport (or equivalent proof of right of abode) instead. So this feels like a temporary workaround rather than a long-term plan, and I don't want to accidentally lock him into "travelling as a foreign national" long-term if it complicates the British application somehow.
Has anyone been through the "prove your late parent's/grandparent's status" saga with HMPO? Specifically curious about:
Thanks in advance — this sub has been a goldmine for untangling all of this.
I am an American married to a French women for a little over 4 years. We were married and live in the US but registered our marriage in France. I have 2 children from my previous marriage, ages 18 and 14. I'm preparing to file the application for French citizenship and have questions about some things that are unclear:
Do I have to include birth certificates for my children if I am not seeking French citizenship for them?
Which documents have to be originals and which can be photocopies? In particular, does the document registering our marriage in France have to be an original?
I am curious about this as I am an American, Filipino, and soon-to-be Canadian citizen. In 2027, I'll be able to apply for Spanish citizenship since I live here in Spain.
In my case, I had a former coworker from Florida from a super international family:
She was a U.S. citizen by birth and has lived in the USA her entire life.
Her dad is a UK/South African dual citizen.
Her paternal grandfather was from Ireland.
Her mom is Lebanese.
So she's eligible for potentially 5 citizenships but she doesn't want any of them.
I also met a young girl when I was a teenager many years ago in France who had a French dad, Russian mom, was living in Germany and was born in California so she had 3 then and could probably have 4 by now.
I legit feel for the people who missed Irish citizenship by one generation.
tell me your stories!
Hello reddit!
I've never been on reddit much, so this is my first post. I don't want to give away too much personal information, but long story short, I am an Indian citizen by birth, a minor and I lived in England for five years as a child. I came back to India because of my father's job transfer.
Now, to the topic at hand, I hope to study in England again. Now begins the hypothetical. So, hypothetically, I get a scholarship to a uni, along with a student visa. So, I finish and graduate uni, and my student visa expires. Now, what do I do and what requirements do I have to fulfill to apply for immigration? I truly do not want to live in a country where I will be exploited. And I'm truly not badmouthing all of India by saying but that's the India I live in.
Advice and answers would be very very appreciated, thank you!
edit for the title: it's supposed to be immigration now but it won't let me change it 😔
But you guys won't, right?
Having three, I'm itching for more. It's a curious obsession. I could easily get New Zealand by going to live there, but they require pretty long and consistent residence, and it doesn't really bring me anything.
Can someone tell me their experience working with IDC to gain Italian dual citizenship? Looking to get started asap. TIA!
Hi. Please be kind.
I'm trying to find out what others have experienced when renewing an expired UK passport, from the USA. Mom was born in the UK, to UK parents, and naturalized in the US.
Was it easy to apply online, and upload photos? I hope I can take good enough pictures for her. 🤔
Anyway, I know my Mom will need to apply online, and then send in supporting documents. She'll need to send her expired burgundy UK passport (expired in 2006) and copies of every page of her US passport, but what else?
The instructions give a choice for name and address and/or residency evidence. The website says:
Please provide one of the following:
visa or resident permit (or colour photocopy)
tax record (for example, a letter from a tax authority)
educational record (for example, a school report)
employment record (for example, an official letter from your employer)
letter sent to you from a central, regional or local government department •- - - medical/health card
voter’s card
What did you send in?
Also, what method is best for sending all this securely? UPS? FedEx? What did that cost? I know this is going to be expensive. 😫
Asking after coming through the Barcelona airport a few days ago. My husband (American) was able to come through the “mixed passports” manned kiosk with me (Italian passport). We walked right by a line of hundreds non-EU citizens waiting. My concern now is that he was never registered for EES, which I assumed would happen at the manned EU both since I had done some research ahead of time. But all they did was scan his passport and then make a little confused “hmm” sound, poke around a bit on the screen, shrug, and then wave us through. So no EES reg. We fly out in two weeks and I’m concerned he’ll be flagged since his entry wasn’t recorded. Does anyone have an experience where the non-EU spouse wasn’t registered? Also, when we leave do we also go through special EU citizen gates? This is my first time traveling on my Italian passport, so I wasn’t sure. Thanks!
Does anyone had experience and been to Singapore with dual citizenship? How does it work with the e-gates?
Have CA & CN passports. Never been to Singapore, have a round trip from CA - SIN, I think should use the CA passport to enter & exit the e-gates for the first trip? Will go to other country using CN after SIN.
Several months later, will arrive at SIN again from another country but lands as a CN. Is it okay to use CN passport to enter this time? Will it cause any problems?
PLEASE HELP!!
