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  • This is the absolute pits. I know a Palestinian lad who was stateless until he got an Irish passport a few years back. I was so, so happy for him when he did.

    Dumping a stateless person out into the unknown is one of the cruelest things you could do. But no…We can go lower…

    An officer eventually told her that she would be sent to the Israel border

    JFC :/

    Sakeik’s family is from Gaza, but she was born in Saudi Arabia, which does not grant birthright citizenship to the children of foreigners

    This is a similar story to my friend. Stateless Gazan parents but he was born in UAE and has never set foot on Palestinian soil. Horror story for that poor woman.






  • khannie@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzRIP America
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    Mmmm. I’m not sure tbh but I don’t think so. If your grandmother had an Irish passport though that might work. Worth checking if you’re considering it.

    My sister lives in the UK a long time now and all her kids have an Irish passport. It’s actually a great passport to have for travel. EU is obviously wide open but most places accept it without much (or zero) effort.


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    Yeah he knew about ten words of Danish after over three years there before he moved to Germany. Even his lectures were in English which I was surprised at.

    He has had to learn a little German but not that much and he’s there about 18 months now. The office he works in has folks from all over so they just use English.

    Netherlands also in my experience basically everyone can speak perfect English.

    I prefer to try to use a bit of the local language when I’m travelling myself as I find folks react well to the effort.

    I’m terms of offence, it’s unlikely. I’d imagine tourists are common enough everywhere. I have reasonable French myself so I do try to use it when there so I can’t say for France specifically.

    If you’ve any other questions I can pass them on to the young lad.


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    Almost anywhere in Europe is the answer. My son did his masters in Denmark and never learned Danish. He lives in Germany now and speaks fuck all German.

    Once in the Netherlands, after losing my glasses I asked an optician if he could speak English and he was thoroughly insulted.

    Britain and Ireland are both native English.