I am now a naturalized German citizen.
I went to the consulate this morning, where I signed a form and was told some things of varying usefulness, then, and now have the official naturalization certificate. The things I was told include that if I want to visit Germany I will need to get a German passport, that from now on they will be dealing with me entirely in German and it would be a good idea to learn some, and the much less important fact Germans write dates day-month-year. The man who was explaining this pointed at the paperwork, and realized that today isn't a useful example, being 2/2. The paperwork he gave me included a couple of pages about German data protection law: he said "we feel strongly about this" and I told him I agree with them. (I think I can file that mentally as "the GDPR applies.")
The man also gave me a lapel pin with the German and American flags, as appropriate to a dual citizen.
I came home, had lunch, and played Scrabble with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude. And now I am going to dive back into the Social Security disability questionnaire.
I went to the consulate this morning, where I signed a form and was told some things of varying usefulness, then, and now have the official naturalization certificate. The things I was told include that if I want to visit Germany I will need to get a German passport, that from now on they will be dealing with me entirely in German and it would be a good idea to learn some, and the much less important fact Germans write dates day-month-year. The man who was explaining this pointed at the paperwork, and realized that today isn't a useful example, being 2/2. The paperwork he gave me included a couple of pages about German data protection law: he said "we feel strongly about this" and I told him I agree with them. (I think I can file that mentally as "the GDPR applies.")
The man also gave me a lapel pin with the German and American flags, as appropriate to a dual citizen.
I came home, had lunch, and played Scrabble with
cattitude. And now I am going to dive back into the Social Security disability questionnaire.Tags:
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Or, perhaps, more appropriately...Glückwunsch! Viel Glück!
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It's a pity German citizenship doesn't actually confer a working knowledge of German on a person. That would be useful.
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(And EU citizenship envy mutter grumble Brexit disaster)
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I've always thought that yyyy-mm-dd makes the most sense in terms of date formats. If you display dates that way, then they sort chronologically.
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from now on they will be dealing with me entirely in German and it would be a good idea to learn some
Wow, I did not get that passive aggressive announcement from the embassy in Portland when I got my dual citizenship, although they did speak German when they called on the phone. I answered in English and they switched to English.
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I certainly hope I won't have to communicate in German to get a passport. (I expect to be able to puzzle out some written German well before I can have even a simple conversation in the language, one that goes beyond ordering things food without using any verbs, just "ein torte, bitte" and "danke."
In Duolingo German, I'm reflexively using French words and forms (like "est" instead of "ist").
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