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Ah, not bad. Probably better than Canada in some regards.
I technically qualify for German citizenship, but it will be a big bureaucratic hurdle and one I would wait until I got to the UK to tackle.
Everything is a big bureaucratic hurdle in Germany. Hope you make it across to Europe though, it's much calmer if not completely chill over here.
Und außerdem, wie ist mit deinen Deutschsprachkenntnissen?
I had to use Google Translate, if that tells you anything. So that would be another hurdle on top of the bureaucratic ones.
Here's the situation: my German grandfather married my English Grandmother in 1929 and emigrated to the UK the same year. My father was born in 1931. My grandfather did not officially renounce his German citizenship and become a British subject until 1936.
This would, in theory, make my father a German citizen (he would hate that so much) and my brother and I too.
Here is the really big problem in terms of bureaucracy: my grandfather was Jewish. He was officially listed as stateless on his naturalization papers because Germany no longer recognized him as a citizen for obvious reasons.
So yeah, if I fought hard for it, and I may one day, I could get German (and thus EU) citizenship. But it will take a lot of work.
That said, we fought hard for many years for ownership of an apartment building owned by my great-grandmother and seized by the Nazis that was in the former East Berlin. In 1989, we started lawyering up and I don't think it all got resolved for about 10 years. Then we had to sell it for a paltry amount of money because renovating it to comply with modern regulations would have been too expensive and there were price controls at the time. But we fought and won. Maybe I should do it again.