I thought I had already written about this but due to the number of "wait what??" comments to my last post about my offhand reference to getting a German passport, apparently I didn't
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I live in Canada. I had 5 German co-workers about 12 years ago. Only one of them decided to live in Canada. All the others moved back to Germany right before they had children. This was their main reason. Rising children there is way less expensive than in Canada.
I would have thought if they were already somewhere else like Canada they'd have their children there before moving back to Germany to give them the citizenship, but I guess not everyone is plotting citizenships for their children
Ah ok, I did wonder a bit because I had thought you would be more likely to get Aussie citizenship, if anything! I get your reasoning. A German passport is better than a US one for travel anyway as there are more places you can go to without a visa. It’s actually one of the best in the world to have for that (I think tied with Sweden or something?) I know this because I got German citizenship too but because I live in Germany and my husband is German. Edit: I checked - Germany and South Korea are tied for second place (under Japan and Singapore) with 190 countries they can go to visa free. A US passport holder can go to 186 countries visa free.
Woo! I wonder if my combined US-German passport might even put me over Japan/Singapore? As someone who travels a lot to a lot of obscure places I'm definitely excited about the potential advantages.
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No problem! (:
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I live in Canada. I had 5 German co-workers about 12 years ago. Only one of them decided to live in Canada. All the others moved back to Germany right before they had children. This was their main reason. Rising children there is way less expensive than in Canada.
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I would have thought if they were already somewhere else like Canada they'd have their children there before moving back to Germany to give them the citizenship, but I guess not everyone is plotting citizenships for their children
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Yes I'm excited for my German passport (:
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Ah ok, I did wonder a bit because I had thought you would be more likely to get Aussie citizenship, if anything! I get your reasoning. A German passport is better than a US one for travel anyway as there are more places you can go to without a visa. It’s actually one of the best in the world to have for that (I think tied with Sweden or something?) I know this because I got German citizenship too but because I live in Germany and my husband is German. Edit: I checked - Germany and South Korea are tied for second place (under Japan and Singapore) with 190 countries they can go to visa free. A US passport holder can go to 186 countries visa free.
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Woo! I wonder if my combined US-German passport might even put me over Japan/Singapore? As someone who travels a lot to a lot of obscure places I'm definitely excited about the potential advantages.
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