bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

@velartrill > i think there's a difference between "family reunification" visas (i didn't need a visa in the first place, the one remaining upside to being a euroid lol) and applying for residency once you're already in the country. my understanding is that the majority of immigrants get in on some kind of visa, usually FR, and then use either "refugee" residency status or administrative trickery (like the "tolerated presence" scheme -- "you can't legally be here but we also can't legally deport you because it totally sucks where you came from rn so whatever i guess please just stay out of the news") or just ignore the law entirely in order to stay, and as long as they don't do anything particularly heinous they don't have to worry too much about being deported because it's not politically correct.

this sounds exactly like the fine-print i'm not very educated about :)

> but as soon as i become some kind of registered koronakriminal that goes out the window, because it's hard to imagine anyone more politically correct to deport than some white american querdenker(in?)

as ugly as it is, you are probably right. some bureaucrat would probably get an extra rainbow smily sticker for that ;) (yes the -in ending denotes a female querdenker)

> iirc the main thing that's changing with citizenship is the new management has been promising to legalize dual citizenship for everyone (instead of it being the standard kind of racial privilege), which would have meant something to me a few years ago but now i'm not sure i even want to keep my american citizenship (and that's assuming i don't wind up randomly stateless at some point in the next three years anyway, which is just seeming increasingly likely…)

i'd say it can never hurt to have one extra citizenship. i have a slight hope that the tide will turn in the states (it will turn faster than in europe imho). besides, as ugly as things are there, at least you can have guns without jumping through hoops in the US ;)

> i just hope they manage to kill the heart damage injection mandate so i can stop worrying so much. can't believe i'm rooting for the greens & the fdp but here we are

that would of course be the easiest way. i don't think that a mandate will hold at the constitutional court. the strategy clearly is to just make the law and force the hand of people, regardless if it will be declared unconstitutional afterwards. even the legality of the measles-vaccination-mandate for children isn't decided upon finally. it's still used to force the vaccination though.