sakura wrote:The best place would be the country's immigration department.
There doesn't seem to be one (official) website where you can obtain information.
You could always try
www.workpermit.com for some countries. Which country/countries are you thinking of?
You are right, of course! I am asking about a topic that cannot be hoped to be easily answered without more specifics. I somehow hoped that the thread I started would develop into a sticky in this forum. (There are not too many at the moment anyway :-)
I am an Austrian who moved with his Russian wife (and our daughter) recently to the UK and we don't know yet if we want to stay for longer. Therefore my attempt at a general question to evaluate possible options for the future.
Holding a Russian passport is not necessarily easy for travelling/living abroad as some may know and being dependent on the current interpretation of EU law not easy for my wife. A switch to another citizenship may make things easier (we hope). The current state of affairs is that neither the UK nor the Russian Federation have problems with dual citizenship (well, at the moment, that is...) As far as I understand we would need at least 1 year of PR before being able to apply for naturalisation thus amounting to six years minimum in total.
In Austria it basically takes six years too but Austrian citizenship is exclusive, i.e. you cannot have another one except in some very exceptional circumstances.
