My immigration plan needs improvement

[jackuk778]

Hello. I'm a U.S. citizen. I've been to the UK and mainland Europe several times. My lifelong dream is to move to the UK or another EU country as a backup.

I'm currently saving up money to go back to school and get a degree.

I have a few skeletal plans:

Plan A
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Get college degree, look for a job in the UK or another European country and apply for citizenship or a visa or whatever it is I'll need (which I'm not too clear about!)


Plan B
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Try to go to school in the UK or mainland Europe

Plan C
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Claim citizenship through Ancestry. I'm hoping that after investigating my family history a bit more I might discover that I have a grandparent or great grandparent from somewhere in Europe and perhaps while getting my degree I could work on claiming ancestry.

The Problem
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All of these plans are vague, I'm not sure where to start and I'm not sure if my plans are realistic. The only thing I'm absolutely sure about is that I want to spend my life living in Europe as a citizen.

Can you guys give me advice on how to realistically accomplish my goal or how to make a better plan?

Is age a barrier when it comes to acquiring citizenship in Europe? I'm not sure how long it will take to get my college degree and I don't know what age I'll be when I start going through the bureaucratic process involved in gaining citizenship and this makes me worry. I might be in my thirties.

[Greenie]

Haven't we been through all of this with you before? Come back when you have a specific question or go and pay someone to give you advice on 'improving your immigration plan' if you are so desperate to move to Europe.

[krazydude]

If you want a priority list, I can suggest you look at Plan C first, after that Plan B and then Plan A.

I also suggest this based on the ease (its a very relative term) with which you could get around getting your hands on a European Passport.

[mulderpf]

Hmmm...looks like you need to do a little more research!! The fact that your plan A you don't know yet whether or not you need to apply for citizenship or visa, means that you have not really looked much into it!

All three plans require you to probably get a visa first - most of the time you don't just get citizenship for paying some money.

Also, Plan C will only work if you have a grandparent, not great-grandparent born somewhere in the EU (some people claim that you can claim Greek ancestry through a Greek great-grandparent, this is not true). So your investigation doesn't have to go very far. (If it turns out you have a Greek parent or grandparent and you get your citizenship you'll need to do compulsory military service, so good luck!).

And lastly, Plan B will not work for the UK as you cannot get citizenship from being a student and the UK is becoming really strict in stopping that from happening.

[geriatrix]

Please continue under one topic.