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: