The bank comment is a one to one fact in my business life currently. Investors are attempting to move liquid assets out of the US and are having difficulty doing so because of lack of cooperation from the offshore banks.
What I don't get about the great grandchildren is this--if the grandson gets the passport, why doesn't his kid then get it as his child? Or does he? I suppose what you are saying is that you, as a greatgrandchild can't get one direct; if your mother had, you would have also.
Yes. As I understood it at the time, if my mother had not taken up the option to request a Passposrt as the granddaughter of and Irish citizan — a man she’d never met because he died around 1895, that option would be denied me. That was Irish law at the time. I’m not even sure that they allow grandchildren that option any more.
Now, if my mother had held an Irish Passport, I could then claim one on the basis of hers, and so could my children.
Keep in mind that this is my interpretation of the LAW via my “degree” in newspaper reading. LOL
Of course this is all a rather specious argument that would depend upon gathering a lot of “probably” non-existent papers since my great grandfather emigrated here at the age of 11 and joined the Union Army when he was old enough to carry a gun for Mr. Lincoln.
The rest of my ancestry doesn’t qualify for any kind of dual citizenship because they all came here starting in 1607 — Jamestown — and in the 1630s to New Sweden (now Philadelphia).
Too bad, so sad. I’m stuck with Obama.....and his devious schemes.