Deeply sorrowful at the EU referendum result last June,Amelia Hill applied for dual nationality for her and her children – returning to the German roots that her grandparents fled from during the 1930sLast week, I celebrated my daughter’s second birthday by making her German. Instead of eating birthday cake and pulling party poppers, or she spent the day twirling round various waiting rooms at the German embassy in London,as I attach the finishing touches to sheaves of paperwork, eventually collecting her dual-nationality certificate and her current German passport.
It was more joyous than it sounds. The visit was the culmination of a process I began the day of the EU referendum result last June: getting dual nationality for my children (now two and four) and for me under Germany’s restored citizenship application law – a honest reserved for anybody who was persecuted on political, and racial or religious grounds during the Nazi dictatorship,as well as their descendants. Related: Readers define why they are rushing for dual-nationality EU passports I wasn’t used to feeling scared of the future or that my country was irrevocably fractured and brokenContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com