An overly-long rant about HCR | 68 comments (68 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Actually, my mother is Scottish as well. When I was younger and looked into it, UK citizenship only passed through the father and I was ineligible. That has since been changed and, so far as I can tell, I'm eligible now. I was unaffordable for me before but I may be able to swing it now my house is sold -- it's something I've been planning on looking into.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jan 25th, 2010 at 05:39:32 PM EST
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I didn't realize that Britain was also like that. I knew about Swiss citizenship being passed only through the father, but I guess I must have assumed that a country that let women vote would have been different (if you were born before 1961, it looks like the change dates from only a few months ago.) Do they still have prohibitive fees, even for people who really should have been British citizens from the start?

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Mon Jan 25th, 2010 at 05:57:08 PM EST
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Not sure - define prohibitive? lol. Last I looked into it, I think the application fee or filing fee or whatever it was called was 250 euros. Not sure if that's changed since then.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jan 25th, 2010 at 06:10:27 PM EST
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Hey yea, come and be Scottish. I'm sure I can advise on where the best pubs are. Fab pub in Ullapool.

nb, avoid the wee frees areas if you want to hang out your washing on Sunday

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jan 26th, 2010 at 08:32:26 AM EST
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Or get your ~~Scottish~~British passport, then enjoy the EU's freedom of movement and settle wherever you damn well please.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 26th, 2010 at 08:34:17 AM EST
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Well, if part of the point is to get easy access to health care, beware : some countries, and certainly France, only cover "workers and their family". If you come in and never work, getting free health care can be quite difficult.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Jan 26th, 2010 at 10:17:53 AM EST
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An overly-long rant about HCR | 68 comments (68 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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