|  | | 
11-29-2010, 12:50 PM
|  | Analyzer Records
Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | Suddenly, I'm British.
Sign in to disble this ad
I've been doing some research on a possible move to Europe in a couple of years, and stumbled across the UK's citizenship laws on their embassy's website. As it turns out, I'm technically a British citizen - my father was born in England, which grants me automatic citizenship in the UK, even though I was born in America. Fancy that.
As far as I can tell, I'm good to go for getting my British passport, and could move to the UK any time I please. The UK's immigration laws are fairly convoluted, but I've done a lot of research and it seems that I'm correct about my citizenship. I've always wanted to move away from America for a while, and perhaps this will pave the way for me. Sweet.
I'm planning a trip to England next spring/summer, partly for fun, partly for research about this country that I could possibly reside in. Methinks London would be too big and expensive for a professional guitar tech/bassist to survive in, but I'd like to live in a place with a vibrant art/music scene.
I'm looking for advice from British TBers on all things English: should I drink my tea plain or with milk? Should I begin work on my stiff upper lip now, or do I need proper training? Can I start calling "English muffins" just "muffins"? Should I bother bringing a toothbrush? |
11-29-2010, 12:56 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | As am I based upon the same criteria. You can also work in the common market. So expand your horizons because England's job market AFAIK is worse that ours. |
11-29-2010, 12:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Here we are... | | | Wanka.
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by Phalex  generic gigantic ice breaking schlong | Quote:
Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar generic gigantic ice-breaking schlong | |
11-29-2010, 01:03 PM
| | Analyzer Records
Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar As am I based upon the same criteria. You can also work in the common market. So expand your horizons because England's job market AFAIK is worse that ours. | Well, I can do lots of stuff - but I'm damn good at repairing and building instruments. But yes, those aren't the kind of skills that gets a brother paid serious bread. Although I've managed to do pretty well for myself in a fairly difficult job market in San Francisco - England can't be too much worse. |
11-29-2010, 01:11 PM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange Well, I can do lots of stuff - but I'm damn good at repairing and building instruments. But yes, those aren't the kind of skills that gets a brother paid serious bread. Although I've managed to do pretty well for myself in a fairly difficult job market in San Francisco - England can't be too much worse. | Keep telling yourself that. You'd be better off getting back together with your sexy doctor friend and mooching off of her. |
11-29-2010, 01:17 PM
| | Analyzer Records
Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Keep telling yourself that. You'd be better off getting back together with your sexy doctor friend and mooching off of her. | I'm too busy mooching off my sexy asian scientist friend to bother with old flames. |
11-29-2010, 02:11 PM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange I'm too busy mooching off my sexy asian scientist friend to bother with old flames. | It's posts like this that make me want to develop a Maki's Seal of Approval graphic.  |
11-29-2010, 02:13 PM
|  | Moderator
Endorsing Artist: Levy's Leathers Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto/Niagara Falls, Ontario | | | I am too because my mum was born in Scotland |
11-29-2010, 02:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | They'll let anyone in the country these days . . .
__________________
EB Musicman/Ibanez/Ampeg/Peavey/Marshall/Tech 21
|
11-29-2010, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User
Beta Tester: Source Audio. Hacker: Heavy Drone FX | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Spokane, WA. | | | I think the lousy British dental work is more a product of being stuck on a small island for several millennia and interbreeding rather than bad hygiene. Somewhat like Mountain Dew mouth in West Virginia.
[/sarcasm]
Just netflix reruns of The Blackadder,...Top Gear,...Fawlty Towers,...Monty Python,...develop your accent and a cheeky dislike for the French and Zee Germans and you should be set. |
11-29-2010, 02:26 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | That would make a heck of a band name.
Suddenly British
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by tom once dead Also to prove my Australianism, I've been stung by an irukandji jellyfish before, while snorkelling at an island looking at stingrays. | |
11-29-2010, 03:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lincoln, NE | | | Seems to be the same as the US. You can be a citizen at birth by Jus Soli (right of soil) or Jus Sanguinis (right of blood). Seems that you fit criteria #2. Hope your dad can find his birth certificates and such. I'm sure you are going to need them. |
11-29-2010, 03:19 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Suddenly life has new meaning to me
There's beauty up above and things we never take notice of
You wake up suddenly you're Bri-tish
-Mike |
11-29-2010, 03:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Winnipeg,Siberia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by anyonefortennis Seems to be the same as the US. You can be a citizen at birth by Jus Soli (right of soil) or Jus Sanguinis (right of blood). Seems that you fit criteria #2. Hope your dad can find his birth certificates and such. I'm sure you are going to need them. | if he was born in england there will be a record of it.....they've been keeping good records since the doomsday book......even my family who were landless and indigent before they came here are on file....
__________________
need ain't got nuthin to do with it
lust is a perfectly good reason to buy gear
|
11-29-2010, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London, UK | | | learn to:
- drink 9 pints of Stella in an afternoon
- not talk about your feelings
...you'll fit right in. |
11-29-2010, 05:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Lake Charles, La. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by warwick.hoy I think the lousy British dental work is more a product of being stuck on a small island for several millennia and interbreeding rather than bad hygiene. Somewhat like Mountain Dew mouth in West Virginia.
[/sarcasm] | I heard the same thing from Uncle Daddy. 
__________________
Bacon gives me a lard on.
|
11-29-2010, 05:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Santa Cruz CA | | | get the passport. dont move for the work (school only). ive got just an american passport (my 3rd... been all over real young). id like a couple, and some countries id way rather show britt id than american info.
its just like that. if you can get a britt pp. then get one NOW, even if you never use it. |
11-29-2010, 07:20 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TOOL460002
its just like that. if you can get a britt pp. then get one NOW, even if you never use it.
| you might want to revise that statement. At first, I was under the impression that you were advising Ben to steal a British man's penis, and then never have sex again.
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese It is never the duty of the oppressed to make a bigot feel comfortable. | |
11-29-2010, 07:32 PM
| | | Quote:
Originally Posted by IconBasser you might want to revise that statement. At first, I was under the impression that you were advising Ben to steal a British man's penis, and then never have sex again. | That is sig worthy.
__________________
Jaguar Club #69 Quote:
Originally Posted by TrooperFarva Well, in fairness to the student, there can be only one. | |
11-29-2010, 07:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Tokyo | | | As a British citizen you should be able to easily move to Australia or Canada also, though why you would want to move to Canada I don't know*.
*(sarcasm, my mother's side of the family are Canadian)
I have been looking at moving to Australia. Not that easy unless you have "family ties" to Australia. Haven't given up yet, getting pretty close though. Anyone know a company that will sponsor an Opto-mechanical tech? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
