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Originally Posted by Luc
sarah, don't mean to sound like a dickhead or nothing but what's the big deal with being a british citizen?
being a US citizen pretty much opens the door to every country in the world, so who cares about british... also, for the most part that country is very overpriced.
maybe there is some laws i dont know about (ex: owning property) and that's why u got it...
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Wrong...i could have stayed here for 3 months with a normal tourist visa..6 on the student work visa. Not even being married to a British citizen qualified me to stay here on its own..I had to apply and prove my marriage was one of love. The right to work in a country other than the USA is not one you get easily.
Then there is the rights to a state pension, the right to vote, the right to a British passport..now I have the right to live and work anywhere in the EU that I should ever desire in my life not to mention more easy of moving about within the British Commonwealth. Most importantly, I can live where I have lived my entire adult life without having "half-rights" or the fear of someone pushing paper to decide that now my husband is dead it is time for me to go 'home'.
Do you know that I haven't been able to get a checking account in this country for nine years? That is because as soon as you are seen not to be British - or atleast EU - they say no. Now, they can't use that as a reason by law.
This country has been very good to me...I wanted to say thanks.