About a decade ago....the German government got to talking about a easier process of bringing 'new' folks in and making them citizeeens. This week, the SPD Party introduced the draft.
For those who didn't know 72.4-million residents of the country are German. The other 10.7-million are non-Germans (like me).
The general process? They intend to make it easier....downsizing the residence time from eight years...to at least five, and possibly even tree years.
How many of the 10.7 million have been in Germany more than 10-years, and clearly not showing an interest in getting citizenship? Well.....roughly half of the 10.7-million.
Are a lot of these people just interested in the visa/work permit, and less so....about citizenship? I brought this up with a Ghanaian guy back around 2018. His big thing was just a residence permit, and license....he figured by age forty....he'd have saved enough to return to Ghana to open a business on his own.
Americans in this situation? The last time I checked.....Germany said (2021) that it was in the 300,000 range.....without counting military folks and government-service folks. The vast majority of them? I don't think the citizenship thing is of interest.
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I've been here 30 years and have no interest in becoming a citizen. Already retired and living the good life. Also have no interest in returning to the USA, the wokeness and cancel culture is the main reason. Secondly, the US has crappy beer.
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