Two passports?

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Please excuse my ignorance but can someone explain why people are trying to get additional passports e.g. Irish and other nationalities of the EU?

What are the advantages?

I have Italian heritage and could get an Italian passport but I don’t know why I need to.

If there is a deal, I have no doubt that British citizens will not need visas to travel to an EU country for a short stay

Criminal record checks might be required though.

One of the reasons my South African friends got UK passports (having been in the UK working for many years) was so that they didn't have to get a Schengen visa just to go to France for a long weekend - which was a major hassle. So just because an Australian can travel visa free throughout the EU, it can't be assumed that all countries can.

And even the UK's visa status for travel to the EU still needs to be negotiated along with everything else

Yeah sorry I meant to say for travel only, not working or studying. (Though selfishly I'd love to see free movement between the UK and Oz, so we wouldn't have to fork out such an exorbitant sum for DH's Australian spouse visa 🤬 )

So we won't be third country nationals plus freedom to travel.

Husband has his Irish passport and I have applied for citizenship in our chosen EU country.

No charge for visas
Dc can study abroad more easily in the future
We have a mortgage in another Eu country and don’t know if there will be issues after Brexit
We own a property abroad and may be taxed more as non Eu citizens
We intend to retire abroad (EU)
Passport queues
Ease of travel outside EU
Sadly I can’t get one but DH is waiting for his and once he gets it we can apply for the dc

Also be aware you don't just apply and get it. I started the process for French passport/nationality in Jan 2017. It's cost a few hundred so far. All my paperwork was cleared on 3rd May along with interview. They have 12 months from then to approve, though we were told it's currently taking 6 months. If it does that'll be 2 years.

That's because you didn't have links though, the OP says she has Italian heritage, if you had just had to get a French certificat de nationalité française, then that's just a couple of months wait and free. People who want to get UK nationality pay thousands, not just a couple of hundred euros worth of translation, if that, and a 55 euro timbre fiscal that is payable in France.

Thank you. Definitely something for me to think about doing although it wouldn’t be done before Brexit, but I am guessing the time frame doesn’t matter?

The time frame is absolutely critical for some countries!

DW is German. Germany doesn't normally allow dual nationality, but has been forced to make an exception for EU nationals. Therefore, if she were granted British citizenship after April, she would have to rescind her German Nationality. She's just been granted British nationality, so now she is a dual national, and it is very unlikely that Germany (or any other European country) would enact retrospective legislation to take it away.

Net effect is that we now have 10 passports amongst 5 people - SWMBO and our children are all Anglo-German and I'm Anglo-Irish.

Happy (and very fucked up) times.

You need to check out Italy's take on dual nationality.

You need to check out Italy's take on dual nationality.

Certainly allowed with UK citizenship.

I know this thread is old, but just wanted to post and say that I am now a French citizen - dual national. Took 22 months from me starting to collect all the necessary paperwork.

My daughter has lived and worked in Paris for the last 5 years. She now has an Irish passport ( Dad born in Belfast) she can still be an EU citizen and work and live in France.

I’m stuck with long queues and having to apply for a visa waver type document just to visit it her.

• Visa free travel, working and living rights in 27 countries
• Ability to use embassy services of all EU countries abroad if the need arises
• To maintain rights as an EU citizen