It's a curious story. First, no German news source (as far as I have seen) has reported this...it's all from outside of Germany. So the story goes....the German Foreign Ministry is drafting up a law which would say....Brits who apply for German citizenship prior to BREXIT day (March 2019).....would be able to retain their British citizenship, while becoming a German. Yes, dual-citizenship.
It's being called the "Transitional BREXIT Act".
Why not admit this in the German public? That would be a curious question.
How many might apply? No one says. If I were to take a guess here....I'd suggest somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 to 200,000. The language element? Well....that's the other part to this, you could only reach actual citizenship, if you passed the B1 level, and that might be a problem.
If they passed this into law, and only fifty people applied? Yeah, that is a possibility.
As for Germans asking questions? If you woke up tomorrow and suddenly someone laid out the element of 600,000 Brits wanting to move in the next year or two into Germany.....that would probably freak some folks out.
It'll be interesting to see if the AfD Party opposes this.
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