matthewz
14 Mar 2009
USA, Canada / Dual Citizenship: American and Polish? [53]
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Can I get possible EU Citizenship to study and maybe work???
First off I'm an American living in California. My Mother is about as honky white Anglo Saxon Protestant as they come and my Father is not. He was born in Rzeszow in the mid '50s and immigrated to the US as a young child in the '60s. Despite speaking the language, he has never been back to Poland, or Europe for that matter, and really has no clue if he has still Polish citizenship.
He thinks I am crazy for wanting to leave the US for any European country, but I am really considering taking my masters in either France or Spain. More opportunity in France, but my French is a work in progress whereas I can speak fluent Spanish/grammer.
If I was an EU national, tuition in these countries would be much reduced and I could possibly even have a decent chance at finding work once I graduated. My bachelor degree, which I am about 8 weeks away for completing is in Accounting. Every country needs accountants, and the euro master programes that I'm looking at are all two years so I can only pray economies start to turn around by 2011. I could even get my American CPA and a couple of euro equivilents in the near future if this works out, and along with the contacts I come across, I could be sitting real pretty back in the States, in like NYC 15-20 years from now.
So, after this long story, my question being, given that my Father is Polish, and was born in Poland, can this be grounds for me to claim Polish citizenship as a means to getting into the EU sort of through the back door so to speak? As I said, he is not sure if he is a Polish citizen in "hibernation" I guess you can say, but at the same time, he never formally rejected or gave up is Polish citizenship. He simply came to America as a young boy and then a couple of years later he became an American and thats that. So if any one can help that would be great.
Thread attached on merging:
Can I get possible EU Citizenship to study and maybe work???
First off I'm an American living in California. My Mother is about as honky white Anglo Saxon Protestant as they come and my Father is not. He was born in Rzeszow in the mid '50s and immigrated to the US as a young child in the '60s. Despite speaking the language, he has never been back to Poland, or Europe for that matter, and really has no clue if he has still Polish citizenship.
He thinks I am crazy for wanting to leave the US for any European country, but I am really considering taking my masters in either France or Spain. More opportunity in France, but my French is a work in progress whereas I can speak fluent Spanish/grammer.
If I was an EU national, tuition in these countries would be much reduced and I could possibly even have a decent chance at finding work once I graduated. My bachelor degree, which I am about 8 weeks away for completing is in Accounting. Every country needs accountants, and the euro master programes that I'm looking at are all two years so I can only pray economies start to turn around by 2011. I could even get my American CPA and a couple of euro equivilents in the near future if this works out, and along with the contacts I come across, I could be sitting real pretty back in the States, in like NYC 15-20 years from now.
So, after this long story, my question being, given that my Father is Polish, and was born in Poland, can this be grounds for me to claim Polish citizenship as a means to getting into the EU sort of through the back door so to speak? As I said, he is not sure if he is a Polish citizen in "hibernation" I guess you can say, but at the same time, he never formally rejected or gave up is Polish citizenship. He simply came to America as a young boy and then a couple of years later he became an American and thats that. So if any one can help that would be great.