Timeline for Do I qualify for a Dutch passport through my grandfather?
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| May 27, 2020 at 23:53 | comment | added | gnasher729 | "British grandparent" doesn't mean you can get British citizenship. You get British citizenship if one parent is British citizen (Father or mother have British parents and are born in the UK), or a parent is "British citizen by decent", that is British parents and not born in the UK, and you yourself are born in the UK. | |
| May 15, 2020 at 18:40 | comment | added | phoog | ... whether anyone has lived outside South Africa and if so when and where, whether anyone was working for the UN or a similar organization of which the Netherlands is a member, and probably a few other factors that don't come to mind just now. | |
| May 15, 2020 at 18:39 | comment | added | phoog | The answer by jason.kaisersmith is basically correct. There are lots of little loopholes, one of which is that independent naturalization of a minor does not cause loss of nationality. Transmission of nationality was also formerly possible only by fathers, so it matters whether this is your maternal or paternal grandfather. To figure it all out, you need to know when your grandfather naturalized in South Africa (if ever), when your parent and you were born, ... | |
| May 15, 2020 at 4:31 | answer | added | user19540 | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 14, 2020 at 21:49 | comment | added | mkennedy | Did either of your parents have Dutch citizenship? Do a search on the netherlands tag here. There have been a lot of questions about trying to get Dutch citizenship via ancestors. | |
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| May 14, 2020 at 18:29 | history | asked | Lemony14 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |