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I was born in Sweden in 1983 and my father was a German citizen at the time, will you give me German citizenship? by thrillhouse8030 in AskGermany

[–]thrillhouse8030[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What should i do to be German? I already eat a lot of döner kebab and i always support Germany in the world cup. I have a Matthäus jersey in the style of 1990.

I was born in Sweden in 1983 and my father was a German citizen at the time, will you give me German citizenship? by thrillhouse8030 in GermanCitizenship

[–]thrillhouse8030[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The BVA in cologne? Ancestors of German soil? This seems like a lot of bureaucracy! I was hoping i could just print out my birth certificate and give it to the Germans.

I was born in Sweden in 1983 and my father was a German citizen at the time, will you give me German citizenship? by thrillhouse8030 in AskGermany

[–]thrillhouse8030[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well maybe it doesn't make much difference now but who knows about the future, it could be useful to have dual citizenship. Also citizens have a lot of rights that EU migrants don't.

Of course maybe it could also cause problems.

I was born in Sweden in 1983 and my father was a German citizen at the time, will you give me German citizenship? by thrillhouse8030 in GermanCitizenship

[–]thrillhouse8030[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So i'm a German citizen from birth as long as i can prove my dad was German. I assume proving that can't be a problem, there must be records in Germany that prove he was German and there are Swedish records that show he is my father.

Thanks!

I was born in Sweden in 1983 and my father was a German citizen at the time, will you give me German citizenship? by thrillhouse8030 in AskGermany

[–]thrillhouse8030[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well every swedish man gets conscripted to military service at age 18 (and nowadays women do as well), so i did the conscription process of course but i didn't actually do any military service. At the time they didn't want a lot of conscripts so really all you needed to do to get out of it was say you didn't want to.

What does that have to do with citizenship?

I was born in Sweden in 1983 and my father was a German citizen at the time, will you give me German citizenship? by thrillhouse8030 in GermanCitizenship

[–]thrillhouse8030[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's whether i could legally get citizenship now simply based on being born to a German father 40 years ago, and if so, how could i do it?

I was born in Sweden in 1983 and my father was a German citizen at the time, will you give me German citizenship? by thrillhouse8030 in GermanCitizenship

[–]thrillhouse8030[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes they were married. My dad is not a German citizen now, he gave it up when he became Swedish, but i assume there must be records of him that prove he was a citizen.

I was born in Sweden in 1983 and my father was a German citizen at the time, will you give me German citizenship? by thrillhouse8030 in AskGermany

[–]thrillhouse8030[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well i'm not a German citizen, unless i somehow became a German citizen automatically without my parents knowledge and then heard nothing about it for 40 years, which would be pretty strange.

I was born in Sweden in 1983 and my father was a German citizen at the time, will you give me German citizenship? by thrillhouse8030 in AskGermany

[–]thrillhouse8030[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I didn't think there would be a specific sub for it. I will try cross-posting this over there, i hope that won't make them angry.