Do we have to declare ourselves non-EU citizens after 31st January?

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Just that really! If I am asked what am I?

Melton
So, Alexander Pfeffel was born in New York to Turkish and British parents
what passport should he hold?

He should think about it very carefully and then make his choice.

melton
and are you happy with the choice he made

It's not for me to be happy or unhappy with anyone's choice. That is their concern.

@thirdpassport

Yesterday I sent off for my father's birth certificate so I could start the process of getting my daughter on the Foreign Births Register if she wants an Irish passport in the future.

I, apparently, already am an Irish citizen. I don't know whether I'll apply for a passport myself - I may do so when my UK one expires just so I never have to face having a UK one without EU on it.

It's literally insane that my daughter could have rights and advantages over her fellow Brits just because her grandad (who died over twenty years ago) was born in Ireland.

But FOM can be had without EU membership so we can continue to make the case for it. If Keir Starmer becomes Labour leader he's already committed to bringing it back. So I guess we have to turn our energies to politics.

@Pollaidh I'm a non-EU partner of an EU citizen and the immigration people at Schiphol recommended we go through the EU queue together. So that's what we've done since, at a small handful of European airports. Seems to work smoothly.

Getting in the same queue and having FOM are completely different things!

That's true. It's just a bit easier to write FoM than EU Directive 1234 Family Reunion etc etc.

Probably should use the correct terms, but as we're both non-EU migrants you know how it is, you get so used to all the rules that it becomes shorthand.

Thanks! I'm, as of today, a non-EU wife of an EU citizen.

FFS neither is the commonwealth,

commonwealth

noun
1.
an independent country or community, especially a democratic republic.

"It's literally insane that my daughter could have rights and advantages over her fellow Brits just because her grandad (who died over twenty years ago) was born in Ireland."
She may be a Brit but she will also be an Irish citizen. She doesn't have "rights over them", she has rights.

@bellinisurge

Well "rights that other British citizens don't have due to a lucky accident that her grandfather was born in Ireland in 1926" then.

Suspect this is why FOM will come back - a young generation will feel aggrieved at seeing a few of their lucky peers having opportunities that were taken a way from them. Luckily FOM is not dependent on EU membership.