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Comment on Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not)

notabot@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Not everyone will be able to move, it’s true, but a lot of countries have provisions for reclaiming citizenship if you can show that an ancestor (usually only in the last couple of generations, but not always) was a citizen.

For instance, Ireland: if one of your parents was an Irish citizen, born on the island of Ireland, you can claim citizenship and a passport with minimal paperwork. If your parents weren’t born there, but a grandparent was, there’s more paperwork involved, but you can still get citizenship and a passport.

Once you have a passport for an EU country, you have a lot more freedom to travel, and settle, anywhere in the EU.

Many other countries have similar systems, so, if you do want to leave, it can be worth studying your family tree to see if there are any recent immigrants.

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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

if you do want to leave, it can be worth studying your family tree to see if there are any recent immigrants.

Family tree. 👀

I was born in China, I don’t wanna go back.

I could theoretically try to recover citizenship, but nah, there is a reason why we left in the first place.

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- notabot@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I did notice your username, so I suspected this might not apply to you, but maybe it’ll be helpful to someone.
  
  All I can really offer you is ‘good luck, hang in there and this too shall pass’, which is probably not a lot of comfort.
  
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- ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I wonder if there is any point at which China starts to look more appealing…? I know that’s easy to say as someone with no experience in China, but we are speedrunning the dystopian shit here.
  
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  - Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    +1 social credit point to poto
    
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    DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I have -99999 social credits at birth
    
    Reason: The crime of being the illegal 2nd child born in violation of the One Child Policy
    
    Punishment: You now must have at least 3 children to fix the declining population/birthrate
    
    PRC Government in a nutshell
    
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    ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Hell yeah! What does that get me? Laffy Taffy? Plastic spider ring? Slap bracelet!?
    
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  - DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Its funny how my mother has did some arranged marriage thing for my older brother and… basically I overheard some talks about visas and that he was going back to China for marriage or something (相親 is the term for it I think), and by marriage, I assume they’re gonna live in the US since all the family assets are here. Like they already exchanged WeChats… I have no idea how that’s gonna go, dude has no social skills, probably worse social skills than me lmfao.
    
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  - pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Lol we might be doing the speedrun but china already finished the 130% category and is working on challenge runs
    
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smh@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I tried that route, but it turns out my folks left the Poland before it was modern Poland, so never held Polish citizenship. If only they’d sucked it up and stayed through World War I. /s

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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My family is hillbilly going back a gen or three, Appalachia to the Ozarks. Can’t claim any foreign blood. :(

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miked@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My great grandparents are from Ireland. My understanding is if I can fully document our relationship I could be eligible. I look into it every few years but cannot find anything linking them to Ireland.

Even reached out to my cousin in Ireland that had done her family tree years ago. No help.

Another set of great grandparents are from Italy. Italian law currently blocks my citizen claim because their is a female in the lineage.

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- notabot@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The best documents would be birth certificates for each generation, but there was a massive fire at the Dublin records office in 1922, which destroyed a lot of genological records from before then. If you have any information about where in Ireland your great grandparents were from, you may be able to find local records however. Things like parish registers and birth records for sone denominations were stored outside Dublin, so you may be able to find them, although it’ll probably mean going there, or hireing to go there, as most of those records haven’t been digitised.
  
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