Whoop whoop, step one done

[meriad]

Earlier in August I was at a friends for dinner and she was asking whether I'd started the process to apply for my British Citizenship which I hadn't. Thank goodness we spoke about it because she pointed out / reminded me (only because it was brought up on another FB page) that Germany have always had a one passport only rule (if it's not one of another EU country) and if you want to hold a 2nd non EU one you have to have special permission which isn't always granted - and come April next year UK will be considered a non EU country. So, cut a long story short I started the process. On Monday last week I got home to a 'sorry we missed you we have an item that needs signature' card which I couldn't collect until this morning... And there it was; step one - my official permanent residency backdated to May 2011. Which means I now need to get going with my Life in the UK and my English Language Tests... then lots and lots of paperwork I think and fingers crossed I get my UK Citizenship before end March next year so I can have both passports; my German and the UK one. Once I have them they can't take it away from me so there's a frantic dash for many people to get their UK passports asap

I'll admit that I'm a bit annoyed that I (and so many others) have to do all this but c'est la vie isn't it... this BREXIT cr*p isn't going to go away so best we accept and deal (and be poor in the process as it's going to cost a bucket load of money to do all this)

But for now - it's a whoop whoop; permanent residency is official and onwards and upwards with the next steps

[saundra]

Ho good luck all this official paper work keeps somebody in a job

[TheOstrich]

Well done, Meriad, first stage of the process accomplished!

An old colleague and friend of mine married a Romanian lass, and I think she has dual passports now, UK and Romanian.

[Ally]

Well done my lovely.

[JanB]

[jenniren]

Well done Ria

[Diflower]

Well done, a big step one!

[Workingman]

Nice one, Ria, excellent news.

[AliasAggers]

Pleased to hear this, Ria.

I was a little concerned of how Brexit would affect such as you.

By the way, we don't all think that this Brexit business is all crap.

[Kaz]

But some of us do!

Ria, that's great! I'm glad your position here will be secure

I'm sure you will absolutely ace those tests, as your English is better than most! xxx