>2. Looking at who the majority of Americans voted for no thanks.
It was a plurality, not a majority of the ~64% of the electorate that bothered to vote, not a majority of the US population. So roughly 30% of eligible voters (who make up ~70% of the population , so ~20% of the population voted for Trump[0])
So, if you don't mind, let's not paint all Americans with such a broad brush okay?
The 36% of the electorate who didn't vote is also kinda no-thanks.
Many of them had reasonable excuses, due to how hard we make it to vote in this country. But an awful lot of them took a look at the two candidates, shrugged, and said "Looks like a tossup to me." I can't imagine the EU wants them much more than it wants the 30% who actually voted for it.
That is what I am describing in my second sentence. You get it in addition to having citizenship of a EU member country, but you can't get it by itself (which is what the comment I replied to implied).
The desire to move to the states is proportional to how shitty is back home. People in Europe have little motivation other than making some money and moving back
If you are a 1st or 2nd generation American citizen and have parents/grandparents who held citizenship from an EU Country, there is a strong possibility you could qualify for that country's citizenship.
A family member recently received Polish Citizenship through a Grandparent that held it in 1938 and immigrated to Canada after WWII. Worth checking out, giving you the option of living and working on both continents.
After some research, mostly in /r/GermanCitizenship, I recently applied for and received my German passport, based on my mother being German at the time I was born.
There are a lot of subreddits with a lot of useful information. Search for "citizenship by descent" (not just on reddit and not just about Germany) and you'll be overflowing with stuff.
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 60.8 ms ] threadIt was a plurality, not a majority of the ~64% of the electorate that bothered to vote, not a majority of the US population. So roughly 30% of eligible voters (who make up ~70% of the population , so ~20% of the population voted for Trump[0])
So, if you don't mind, let's not paint all Americans with such a broad brush okay?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States...
Many of them had reasonable excuses, due to how hard we make it to vote in this country. But an awful lot of them took a look at the two candidates, shrugged, and said "Looks like a tossup to me." I can't imagine the EU wants them much more than it wants the 30% who actually voted for it.
You have the citizenship of your country, and if that country is in the EU, also conferred upon you is EU citizenship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_citizenship
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-biden-immigration-border-reco...
This is almost as good as Eric Raymond having a disambiguation for a cartoon villain.
A family member recently received Polish Citizenship through a Grandparent that held it in 1938 and immigrated to Canada after WWII. Worth checking out, giving you the option of living and working on both continents.
There are a lot of subreddits with a lot of useful information. Search for "citizenship by descent" (not just on reddit and not just about Germany) and you'll be overflowing with stuff.