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Yippee bloody yay 4 months ago

I’m writing this about 2 weeks after the fact, but I needed some time to just breathe and settle down.

I’ve renounced my original citizenship and gained a new one. In the process, I’ve been without a citizenship or any valid form of identification (not to mention job, health insurance and similar things) for about a week. Brrr, scary feeling. There’d been a potential for some serious fsckups due to various paperwork deadlines coming up, but thanks to some very nice and helpful public administration workers (wow, they actually exist) it was all sorted before the catastrophe actually happened. Phew.

I’m now a citizen of the EU. No more waiting in lines at border crossings. Or getting called to the side for a more thorough search. I think I have a new phobia – borders and border officials!

So, that means the biggest part of my paperwork is sorted out. Anything else that comes up is insignificant in comparison. :P

Jun 29, 12:30AM PDT | 9 cheers

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Zanna Campanula bookcart lady

congratulations!

will you get to go to a crappy do at the town hall with bad speeches and soggy canapés?

how do you feel about renouncing your original citizenship? it must be weird.

Jun 29, 12:49AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

vex

Thanks!

Nope, no do. :( I did have a sort of “swearing in” ceremony, but it was just me and this government employee in a small office. I read the oath and signed the papers and that was it. No sense for propriety in this country! ;)

I’m not very attached to either my home country or my new country – I mean, they’re both nice and all, but I’m not feeling very patriotic. :) I’m more loyal to the people I love (who are now spread more or less evenly among the two countries) than the place or the concept of a country. I’ve only done it to simplify my life and cut down on paperwork! :)

_{I do plan on getting my original citizenship back sooner or later – just so I can have the benefits in my home country, like not paying tourist tax on vacation or buying real estate without complications! ;)}

Jun 29, 01:16AM PDT | Respond to this 4 cheers