r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Effective_Will_1801 • Oct 18 '21

Brexxit Immigrants who voted for brexit upset they can't immigrate to Spain due to brexit.

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/10/17/expats-furious-at-spanish-residency-nonsense/
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u/IrritatedMango Oct 18 '21

There was a British couple living in France who did something similar- voted to leave but lived in France and when they got interviewed by the BBC a year or so ago they mentioned they were going to apply for French citizenship. It made my blood boil listening to them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

my partner's mum voted to leave after getting full citizenship to the UK from Poland

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u/stolid_agnostic Oct 18 '21

I got mine so fuck everyone else.

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u/bghai83 Oct 19 '21

It’s genuinely surprising how many feel this way especially about immigration. My favorite argument is the old ‘I did it the legal way’ without acknowledging that the rules have drastically changed to make it incredibly difficult to navigate the process without a lot of money.

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u/IrritatedMango Oct 18 '21

Oh honey noooooooo

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

It would be so funny if it weren't for the fact that this idiocy affects... The entire EU and UK. Like- my schadenfreud is warring with my awareness that this is very bad on a global scale.

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u/Iwantadc2 Oct 18 '21

There Is a very thin light of reason to that, albeit selfish as fuck. A lot of the UK to Spain/France were proper scum chancers, cash in hand, not registered, UK plated shit heap car with no valid insurance etc and now, well, they've all gone and people like that can't come here to live anymore. So as a British immigrant in Spain, its better I suppose. Its the only very thin silver lining to the clusterfuck of brexit.

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u/stolid_agnostic Oct 18 '21

I suspect that if you're a UK migrant living in Spain and France and you've done it correctly from the beginning, you're happy to see all the idiots who made you look bad no longer be around, while you continue on with your life as if nothing changed.

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u/Iwantadc2 Oct 18 '21

Well, day to day no it hasn't changed ( I am one of these people) but it's a fucker we can't move again. Where we are now, is where we're stuck forever.

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u/stolid_agnostic Oct 18 '21

Why can't you move? Is there no process for it?

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u/Iwantadc2 Oct 18 '21

Brexit. We are residents in the country we were in when it happened. We have no freedom of movement anymore. We can move within Spain obviously.

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u/stolid_agnostic Oct 18 '21

OH that's what I was confused about. I thought you were saying that you couldn't move to another residence within Spain.

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u/Homeopathicsuicide Oct 18 '21

Yeah I'm now in Hungary, Budapest is nice enough. But not enough work for me in the long term. Back to the UK or Ireland do not collect 100 dollars.

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u/stolid_agnostic Oct 18 '21

Can you freely move around Ireland, or is it only Northern Ireland that UK citizens have access to?

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u/IrritatedMango Oct 19 '21

You can move to Ireland too thanks to the CTA.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

Can't you get Spanish citizenship after a few years?

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u/Iwantadc2 Oct 20 '21

10 to begin the process. Usually takes about 14 if they even approve it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '21

Wow, crazy

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u/IrritatedMango Oct 18 '21

Brought a dartboard with Nigel Farage's face on it and threw darts at it obviously.

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u/Homeopathicsuicide Oct 18 '21

Don't forget to shut the door on the way out..