Originally Posted by
YVR Cockroach
I have a friend who is a 3rd generation Argentinean of German descent. His parents and his grandparents were very diligent in maintaining their German identity by registering their children as Germans, sending them to German school (some 84 in Argentina) and educated to a standard approved by the German education ministry and having the children go to Germany for tertiary education. He did the same for his children. So they family are all Argentinean and German citizens. Not too many people who moved to the U.S. bothered to do that.
Thanks a lot for the information, YVR Cockroach, and everyone else! That is pretty crazy that three generations of Argentines held on to their German heritage.
I've been reading through the German Nationality Act:
http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/StAG.htm It's not really entertaining reading, kind of like watching water boil, but nonetheless it was informative.
And it looks like in Germany, as long as your parent was born before 1993 (which is obviously the case, in my situation), you have a case as long as you can prove that someone in your paternal line is/was German, never voluntarily served in an army, and was never actively became naturalized in another country..
.... and that irrespective of place of birth, citizenship is always transferred through men. Sorry, ladies, all women are SOL under German law, unless the mother happened to have you out of wedlock... then that opens another can of worms.
I guess there's nothing left to do but try to apply. All they could do is reject the application, right?
