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funkymonkeypants
Joined: 13 Oct 2004
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 Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:02 am Post subject: What exactly is an EU Passport??? |
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| I have an idea about what it is but can someone please clarify this for me????:0) Thank you so much!!! |
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anton
Joined: 07 Jul 2004
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Location: Taianan, Taiwan
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:23 am Post subject: |
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E.U stands for the European Union. An E.U passport is a passport anyone will hold who belongs to one of the countries in the E.U! (England, Gemany, France, Spain etc).  |
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pennylane
Joined: 18 Oct 2004
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Basically you have to be a citizen of one of the European Union countries - I dont know ALL of them - England, France, Germany etc....you could probably look it up on the Internet...
Ive got one because I was born and lived in the UK for about 10 years...
They are extremely hard to get...you would have to legally emigrate to one of the countries etc... |
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CharlesTESOL
Joined: 06 Jul 2004
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Location: Barcelona, Spain
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The 25 countries of the EU are:
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and The United Kingdom.
I believe that Norway and Switzerland have agreements with most, if not all, EU countries that allow their citizens to work in each other's countries.
Although they are now part of the EU, I do not think the citizens of the 10 countries that recently joined the EU (Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) currently have the right to work in most other EU countries. I have heard that over the next few years reciprocal work rights will be allowed according to rules established by each country.
It may be possible to be issued a passport from an EU country if your parents or grand-parents hold a passport from that country-- and you have the proper documents to prove it. In such a case it is not necessary to immigrate to that country. I have heard of people obtaining citizenship this way from Italy, Spain, Ireland and the U.K. among others. Each country has its own policies and, so, it is not possible with every EU country. A person who has parents or grand-parents from an EU country would need to contact an Embassy or Consulate of that country to find out if it is possible and, if so, what the process is. Often these policies and processes are spelled out on Embassy web sites. |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 1797
Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:37 am Post subject: My Wuhan-born baby daughter is a UK/EU citizen |
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| A person who has parents or grand-parents from an EU country would need to contact an Embassy or Consulate of that country to find out if it is possible and, if so, what the process is. Often these policies and processes are spelled out on Embassy web sites. |
Or, as in my case, the parents themselves can do it. My baby daughter is six months old now and has never been out of Wuhan, China. I applied for her UK/EU passport via the British Embassy in Beijing when she was two months old and now she has it (technically!). It is valid for just five years (as opposed for ten for adults' passports) and it says that she is a "BRITISH CITIZEN".
The rule here is that those born outside of the UK who are claiming British citizenship via their parents must either:
(a) have a British father who was legally married to the mother at the time of the birth and was himself born in the UK; or
(b) have a British mother (who did not have to be legally married to the father at the time of the birth) and was herself born in the UK.
However, British citizens, who were themselves born outside the UK, will apparently not be able to pass British citizenship automatically onto their children.
As for when the two of us and my wife will go to the UK, that is another matter, but both of us have agreed that we want a British education for her. Hence, we may not go to the UK until she's five years old, if not earlier, but we are prepared to wait. |
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