This citizenship discussion is fascinating!
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
erin_obscure - Oct 27, 2016 11:26:37 am PDT #2798 of 3094
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
NoiseDesign - Oct 27, 2016 1:12:43 pm PDT #2799 of 3094
Our wings are not tired
I have my Canadian citizenship again due to the whole "wake up Canadian" thing a few years ago, but I need to go to the consulate and get an ID card and some things like that.
I'm eligible for Irish citizenship since my grandfather was born there. I really need to follow up on that and do it.
esse - Oct 27, 2016 1:26:10 pm PDT #2800 of 3094
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
ND, do it! Irish citizenship = EU citizenship, which benefits you so much when you travel in Western Europe. I wish there was a path there for me, but the closest Euro relative is my great-grandfather, who immigrated from Sweden.
amych - Oct 27, 2016 2:04:22 pm PDT #2801 of 3094
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I have ongoing low-level rage that my closest EU relative was my Austrian grandmother, and Austria because ohferfucksakeyoucrazyassedpatriarchalcountry only recognizes grandfathers.
Calli - Oct 27, 2016 3:50:29 pm PDT #2802 of 3094
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My closest EU relatives are my paternal great grand parents. Grandpa was apparently born within a month of his parents' immigration. I never cared before, but now I kinda wish great grandpa Issac had put that trip off a few months.
amyth - Oct 27, 2016 4:19:13 pm PDT #2803 of 3094
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
My paternal great grandfather was born in Italy in 1881. Which would actually work, except that my father was born in 1928, and he needed to have been born after Jan. 1, 1948 in order for him to be able to inherit his Italian citizenship from my grandmother.
DavidS - Oct 27, 2016 8:22:14 pm PDT #2804 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My Dad's side of the family has been in the U.S. since the 1720s so no such options for me!
Laura - Oct 28, 2016 3:00:02 am PDT #2805 of 3094
Our wings are not tired.
3 of my great grandparents were born in Ireland and 1 in Germany. My mother went over and met some Irish relatives, but I haven't, yet.
Zenkitty - Oct 28, 2016 6:06:37 am PDT #2806 of 3094
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The guy who's probably my biological father was British. I'm grumpy about that - so close! But there's no way to prove it now, he's dead, my mom's dead (and would never admit it anyway), and my legal father is probably dead but who knows where he is. Well, okay, he's probably in Pennsylvania, but we haven't spoken in 30 years. Man, my family is a Lifetime movie just waiting to be written.
brenda m - Oct 28, 2016 6:45:32 am PDT #2807 of 3094
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
My maternal grandparents were British, so I suppose there might be something there. But I've already got two citizenships so it's not exactly pressing.