Comments by "Jeremy Barlow" (@jeremybarlow2291) on "Don’t Get a Golden Visa Until You Watch This" video.

  1. My French ancestors were in Quebec before the French & Indian War. My Dutch ancestors were in New York when it was still New Amsterdam. My Mohawk ancestors are in no way helpful with a citizenship by descent especially since they are too small a percentage of my Great Great Grandparents to allow me to be a member of the tribe even. My Irish ancestors moved to Canada at the height of the potato famine, so that means it was my Great Great Grandparents. My Great Grandfather moved to the US & if I knew when I was a kid what I know now, I would have told my grandfather & father to claim their Canadian citizenships so that I could claim mine potentially, but they were both proud soldiers in the US Army who respectively fought in World War II, and Vietnam & the first Gulf War, so that would probably have not went over well with either of them. My maternal Great Grandparents all came to the US from Sweden early last century along with my matrilineal Great Great Grandmother who had been a doctor in Sweden. I have a relative who traced my matrilineal line in Sweden back to a Grandfather born in the 1770s who lived to see the US Revolution & the US Civil War's beginning. I can tell you all that, but as Andrew I am sure knows, Sweden's cruel ironic punchline for me is that while a Swedish mother has always been able to pass citizenship to their children, my Grandmother born in America in 1923, even if her mother never became an American citizen was born an American so unless she went to Sweden before the age of air travel and before she was 21 & opted to be Swedish, she and my mother are both American citizens. Hmmm what was happening in the world by the time my grandmother was 6 years old, a worldwide depression, hmm. As a young adult what was going on in Europe? A World War? If Sweden alters their citizenship by descent rules to allow the descendents of Grandparents born of Swedish ancestry, I'm probably Golden, but as a country that only recently recognized dual citizenship, unless I've read their citizenship by descent statute wrong, and I don't think I have, citizenship by descent for me is a cruel, cruel joke. In no small part because my ancestors were mostly in the United States before it was a country, or Canada before it was a country, left Ireland before it was a country, & well too long ago for British citizenship to apply as well. Canadian citizenship was potentially obtainable in my lifetime, but my grandfather & father would have needed to take some actions. That is a cruel irony because I could be at the Canadian border in 25 minutes & my father routinely went to the Canadian auto-racing track 40 minutes away to work on cars and even played fast pitch softball in a cross border league when I was a kid.
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