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Just something I was playing around with yesterday; I\u2019m not sure why, but it started with one of the boys asking about my parents\u2019 ancestry.<\/p>\n

My grandfather was a Greek immigrant, so \u2014 fun fact \u2014 if I wasn\u2019t already married to a citizen of an EU country, I could apply for Greek citizenship, at least, if this website is correct<\/a>. \u00a0The kids couldn\u2019t, though; they\u2019re too far removed.<\/p>\n

My grandmother was of Irish descent, but her Irish-immigrant ancestors had come to the US (by way of Canada) a long time back. \u00a0In any case, I decided to look up the rules of children of immigrants maintaining Irish citizenship; according to the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service<\/a>, in principle it\u2019s possible to maintain your citizenship across multiple generations of immigrants, but only if the family makes a point of preserving this link via the \u201cForeign Births Register.\u201d <\/p>\n

I had had the impression that Germany likewise allowed people of German ethnic descent to immigrate to Germany and claim German citizenship, but, upon doing a bit of investigation<\/a>, it turns out I was mistaken. \u00a0Only ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe were ever included in this program. \u00a0As to German immigrants living elsewhere, it\u2019s the same as elsewhere<\/a>: \u00a0you\u2019re a German citizen if at least one parent was, and German citizens who themselves were born abroad can\u2019t pass on citizenship to the next generation. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I could probably write up something on ethnicity and citizenship if my lunch break weren\u2019t over, but I had thought that it was more prevalent than seems to be the case, for European countries to consider immigrants elsewhere to still \u201cbelong\u201d to the country.<\/p>\n

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