dev-entrepreuner wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2023 9:07 pm
If you would be anxious whether you could still get an extension of your residence permit based on having one Finnish grandparent then you would have a point, but I doubt there would be changes to that. Citizenship will just take longer, but it shouldn't make a huge difference whether that's 5 or 8 years.
Hope I made a quotation right. Kinda new to 1990s tech:D
Guess what, mate. The difference between 5 and 8 years is 3 god damn years. Now imagine yourself being a specialist or just a young person outside of EU with a brain in a head. Why on earth would you choose to gamble on stability of your life for 3 extra years?
FYI: UK, NL, Sweden, France, Portugal (these are just top 5 countries I cared to check) - they all provide a possibility to become citizen after 5 years of being a work based migrant.
I am very lucky that I can apply for citizenship already mid next year, coz I would be packing up my stuff rn and moving to any country on the list above.
Also Finland is the only single country in the whole EU which language is getting learnt in 1.2k hours instead of 600. Think of that.
That change is harmful from the economical point of view and just being ridicolously dumb. You sound as quite right person. So think of that.
P.S. I support almost every other change to the migration policy apart of 3 months kicking out period for people working in non-hospitality/cleaning industries, but that !"#¤% is just very dumb.
I cry as a taxpayer.
Also for everyone on this forum - PS are clearly far-left. They can call themselves any way they want, but the way they act is a classic far-left ideology combined with nationalism
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I suspect the number of years required or requirements for citizenship will go up in the not too distant future in at least some of those countries mentioned since they are struggling with various serious problems related to immigration. But the point here is, citizenship brings with it not just varous priviledges but also various responsiblities. Ideally, a citizen will be committed to the needs of the nation in good times and in bad. Somone who is not willing to stay put for 3 years more is likely to be percevied as not being really sufficiently integrated enough to be a citizen. It is not just about the tax or your job skills that may be in demand at the moment.