Hi all. Forgive the post in English, but I'd only embarrass myself with my current level of Danish.
I'm half English, half Danish adult (30yo). I have English citizenship. My mother (100% Dane) has lived in France, and England for the past 30ish years, having left Denmark in her early 20s for work. She has Danish citizenship exclusively. I have vastly more family members in Denmark, than in the UK,
I never thought England would actually let brexit happen, and that has put me and my brother in a bind. We both thought we would always be welcome in Denmark with a European passport. Now, with British passports, we've essentially become 'half stateless'.
The older I get, and the more time I spend in the UK, the more I'm losing faith with this country. I fully understand the whole 'grass is always greener on the other side' irony to this point, but after having recently had a child, a large part of me wants to be able to claim the right to work and live in Denmark, for the safety and security of my family in the event that I no longer feel safe here.
In 2017, we tried to secure citizenship for myself and my brother. We were rejected on the premise that we hadn't spent enough time in Denmark (roughly 6 months since birth).
Recently, I'm really hoping to try again as I now have the realization that if my English father were to pass away, my mother and I would essentially have no legal right to live in the same country indefinitely. This also goes for my very elderly grandparents in Denmark.
At this point, I'd be willing to move to Denmark for as long as it took, hell, maybe staying if things worked out, to try and get my citizenship of both Denmark and Europe. However, I've never seen any suggestion that this is an option.
TLDR: are there any other half-Danes who grew up in another country who managed to get citizenship as an adult? Are there any new avenues that could be explored?
Thanks.
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The original was posted on /r/denmark by /u/evthrowawayverysad at 2024-03-14 00:26:00+00:00.
chaos-consultant at 2024-03-14 06:18:08+00:00 ID:
kussd6iReally, though? Is that really the case?
In another reply, you say that may have spent enough time in Denmark to meet the requirements, which are really very low. That's not a lot, by any means.
The thing is, you have lived your entire life in the UK and evidently not felt any more Danish than having spent at most a few months here, and don't really know any Danish. Which is totally fine. But realistically, you have not been in Denmark any more than some of the more zealous German tourists that vacation here every year.
But then you decide on what seems like a whim that maybe you could just like, become a citizen, with almost zero real attachment to the country, because you think it might be nicer over here.
You really can't see how this comes off as sort of opportunistic and naive?
I'm not even a Danish citizen myself, I migrated here as a kid, but I can still see why people might feel that way, and surely you can too.