Yes. Always have been.
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Another thing the UK did for me. Offer me citizenship because my home county refused to give me one.
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Being stateless is illegal. Nonetheless where I was born, my mother's homeland, decided I'm not Cypriot enough, cos dad is important only.
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Wow. I wonder if current UK gov (or worse, Brexited gov) would do same now. Do u know if it was EU law that req'd UK to offer u citizenship?
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I'm UK by dissent. So yes, they would do exactly the same now.
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My family has a variety of legal nationalities altho I'm ethically Cypriot (mum) and white British (dad).
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What wouldn't happen now is my rejection from Cypriot nationality because Cyprus is now in the EU.
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Tangentially, most of my genes arose in Italy. So perhaps I'm Venetian — my village in Cyprus is very Venetian. Cool empire.
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well you've got me beat for flair. A few y/o i disc'd I'm descended from the leader of the Belarusian communist party
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Hahah that's cool! I don't know what kind of geographically Italian humans gave me their DNA. Venetians is just an educated guess.pic.twitter.com/ousOE1B6WC
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My village has a lot of Italian words specifically in their vocab and makes lace for Vatican so likely! Also all the DNA relatives that
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site gives me are from my mum's village. Nothing from Sheffield.
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