Preferably into the EU. I speak some Spanish and I’m set to graduate with an Associates this semester. Hoping to get CompTIA certs sometime soonish and would like to continue schooling to get a bachelor’s in Compsci. Most notable work experience is 2 years in an office setting making collection calls and processing payments. What resources are available to me? Who or what agency/department can I contact to get more information? What’s the pipeline look like?

I know I could look most of this up, but there’s a lot of information out there and some(a lot) of it I find somewhat confusing. Plus, I don’t really even know where to start.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Step 1, figure out if any of your parents, grandparents, or in some cases great grandparents came from somewhere else. Many countries allow near descendents to get citizenship.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      15 days ago

      and that’s the true story of how my partner and i figured out that the only non US place that will take us is ruzzia

      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        15 days ago

        And that’s the true story of how I learned all my Polish ancestors came over before modern Poland was a thing, and thus didn’t have Polish citizenship to pass on.

        • [email protected]@lemmy.federate.cc
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          14 days ago

          Mine did, too. I received Polish citizenship this year. If your family came from what is today Poland and you can prove that, you’re potentially eligible. If not, and they came from the territory that is today Hungary, Romania, etc - then check with those countries instead as similar laws apply.

          • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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            9 days ago

            So, how did you go about doing that? Did you pay a company to guide you through the process or what? TBH, I’m a bit intimidated by interacting with a foreign government potentially in Polish, a language I do not speak.

            • [email protected]@lemmy.federate.cc
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              9 days ago

              I hired a law firm in Poland that specializes in immigration. They walked me through genealogy / document procurement first, then helped with getting everything translated and notarized for use in Poland. It took about 2 years from starting the process to receiving citizenship.

    • ComicalMayhem@lemmy.worldOP
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      15 days ago

      For great grandparents I go through 23 and me or other similar service, right? I know the grandparents on my mother’s side are Venezuelan and the ones on my father’s side are from the US, I don’t know about further back than that.

      • superkret@feddit.org
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        15 days ago

        23 and me is a private company that sells your data and gives you a piece of paper with some percentage points written on it.
        Unless your relatives are still alive and have another country’s citizenship along with the papers to prove it, you’re out of luck.