Pauline
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The Guardian (UK) - Spain offers Sephardic Jews fast track to naturalisation, February 2014
"Spain has announced new measures to speed up the naturalisation of Jews of Sephardic descent whose ancestors fled the Iberian peninsula five centuries ago when they were told to convert to Catholicism or go into exile."
One way to get to live in Europe for more than 90 days, is to claim citizenship of an EU country based on your family history. Steve and I were able to move to England because I am an Irish citizen, and he was able to claim citizenship by being married to me. I am Irish because Ireland considers you a citizen if your father was born in Ireland, and my father was. This gives us the right to live and work in any EU country. We have never lived in Ireland.
Ireland also allows you to claim based on your grandfather, but I think there is a residency requirement.
These laws change all the time, so if you have European parents or grandparents, check the embassy of their country. This new law in Spain allows people to claim based on families living there over 500 years ago!
"Spain has announced new measures to speed up the naturalisation of Jews of Sephardic descent whose ancestors fled the Iberian peninsula five centuries ago when they were told to convert to Catholicism or go into exile."
One way to get to live in Europe for more than 90 days, is to claim citizenship of an EU country based on your family history. Steve and I were able to move to England because I am an Irish citizen, and he was able to claim citizenship by being married to me. I am Irish because Ireland considers you a citizen if your father was born in Ireland, and my father was. This gives us the right to live and work in any EU country. We have never lived in Ireland.
Ireland also allows you to claim based on your grandfather, but I think there is a residency requirement.
These laws change all the time, so if you have European parents or grandparents, check the embassy of their country. This new law in Spain allows people to claim based on families living there over 500 years ago!