So I hope you have an overview of how to attain citizenship in Germany. So those who are asking, I just came to Germany in 2018. I thought if I keep writing Germany, my child will become a German citizen. And this week I'm going to tell you about other ways to attain the German citizenship. Hi everyone, welcome back to the Phoebe way. This is your first time, my name is Phoebe. On the channel we talk about life in Germany, you know, we discuss all topics relating to German. Foreigners in Germany, German experts in Germany, everything to make a life in Germany easy and enjoyable. This is settling smoothly. This is what we do on this channel also because I love traveling and bringing to you my travel discoveries as well. Yes, so this is life in Germany. And one thing about life in Germany is the German citizenship. So last week we started the series where I talked to you guys about why you should get the German citizenship, why you should naturalize the German citizenship. And this week I'm going to tell you about other ways to attain the German citizenship. So if this was your end, get yourself a cup of tea and let us continue. Now before we do that, luggage pool, each luggage pool, how can I continue without telling you guys about luggage pool? So luggage pool is made by experts for experts so if you are having logistics issues, how to move heavy things from one point to the other, if any people to help you move certain items or objects, if you're trying to move homes, if you're trying to get your furniture, new furniture from the furniture house, Ikea, Mimabs, Bala, Existix, Luz, Globus, whatever. They are here to help you just book them and now they have an app as well so you can be helped on the go. This is the link for you to register and save five years off. And also not just within Germany, as I said, it's for experts. So if you're trying to convey documents, medication, anything as a parcel from Germany to your home country, from home country to Germany, find someone on the platform who is traveling home or coming back and they will help you do that. And the price is per kilo. So luggage pool helps you with the pricing as well. So you don't have to do everything by yourself. Now let's get into the German citizenship story. So naturalization obviously is the one for adults and people who are already of age who wants to naturalize the German citizenship. Also it's for children, yes. But if you want to naturalize or attain the German citizenship, naturalization is one of the ways you could do that. And it's also easier because the requirements are easier for people to attain. I'm saying this because we'll get to the other two ways soon and you realize that this is actually the easier method to attain the citizenship. So just like naturalization, there are certain requirements. The requirements are a little bit long but I'm going to just blend them in. We will discuss them as well next week where we talk about those who have already applied and were denied or rejected. We'll talk about those as well and whether you can actually reapply in all of that. We'll talk about that next week. So if I'm not yet subscribed, what are you waiting for? Subscribe. And also that is it. So but basically the steps are like this. You will get the application form. You submit your application. You pay for naturalization tests. You take a naturalization test. It's 25 years. Naturalization tests. What did they ask you? They asked you about living in Germany. They asked you about German rules and regulations. And then there's also the German society. Question about the German society. And also there are three questions that are dedicated or focused on your region. So for example, I'm down south in Baden-Rittenberg. So I have to be able to ask a question about Baden-Rittenberg. Some people are accepted from this naturalization test. For example, I was because I went to school in Germany. I went, I did my, I'm a community in Germany. I did my abitur. So because of that, I didn't have to take naturalization test. So these are some of the extensions. And we'll talk about that next week. Okay. So subscribe, activate the notification button and we'll get into that. So those are the steps. The naturalization tests cost 25. The naturalization, I mean, yeah, naturalization tests, 25 naturalization process or the form itself for the administration cost for that is 225 for adults and for people who are lower than 16 years. It's 51 years. 51, yeah, things 51. If you're not 51, I'll put the right amount. Yeah, I think 61 years. So if you have those 16, it's 51 years. So that's a naturalization. Also, you can naturalize through marriage. Obviously, you have to apply. So with that, you take the naturalization test, you prove your German proficiency that you can rise and read the language. And you also have to prove that you have been married for the past two years and have also been in Germany for three years prior to your application. So these are the requirements if you're trying to naturalize through marriage. And with that, you have to wait the eight years or the seven years that people have to wait and also make sure that your partner is German because he's the one helping or he or she's helping you to naturalize through your spouse as to the German. That is the requirements for naturalization through marriage. So you can do it yourself or once you get married through your partner. Now, naturalization, I went through that really quickly because naturalization is something that we're going to be talking about a lot and we have talked about a lot. So let's go on to the next one. The next way to attain German citizenship is through birth. So that is, we have two birth ways. One is through the territory. So by where you were born and then one is through blood. So decent. So who are your parents? That's one side and the other side is one is when you were born within the German territory. So now let's do the blood one first. So the blood one is the use of greenness. What that says is that at least one parent has to be German. Okay. And then if and once the child has been born up until the first, the child's first birthday, the parents must have had already said the child with the German of 30s that yes, we have a child. And then after the child has crossed the 18th birthday, the child has some time to decide whether the child will stick with the German citizenship or if it was only one parent was German with the other parents citizenship. So up until your 18, you have the double citizenship and then once you turn 18, you have to decide between the German and the non-German citizenship. This is when it comes to when both parents, when one parent is German and you will not born in Germany, but your parents, were you certain say that you were born to a German parents? That is the difference. When you're born to a German parents, these are the regulations. Another thing to is that if you were adopted as well, it applies to you as well so an adopted child can also attain the German citizenship. So if you were born on German soil, okay. And none of your parents is German, but one parent has lived in Germany for more than eight years or up to eight years before hert of the child and the child would be eligible for the German citizenship. If the parent has the residence permit to need a license allowment, it's important, okay. Need a license allowment is the keyboard here. So if you are not German, but you have the need a license allowment or the German residence permit, then you can have or lie for the German citizenship for your child. And with that as well, the child keeps the German citizenship and the other citizenship to the child is 18 and usually it's five years time that the child has between 18 and 23 to decide where to the citizenship he or she would choose. That is the only crooks or the only thing about the dual citizenship. And this is for children who were born after the 2nd February 1990. So children who were born after 2nd February 1990 are eligible for this type of citizenship or this type of method of attaining citizenship. And when renunciation is not possible because maybe it's difficult for you to gain renunciation from the other citizenship from the other country or they do not allow it or something, then you can keep both citizenship. But usually dual citizenship is not allowed in Germany except it's 2 EU countries. So France, Germany or something like that. But you cannot have dual citizenship with for example Ghana, Germany. It does not work. So I hope you have an overview of how to attain citizenship in Germany. So those who are asking I just came to Germany 2018. I thought if I give right in Germany, my child become a German citizen, no, which means that because you're going to be German for more than 8 years and you don't have the residence permit being the need of license allowments, your child is not going to be German except the child's other parents being the father or the mother is German and then it is German by blood. But if you are just coming to Germany to just give but thinking your child is going to become German, the answer is no. Okay, the answer is no. So guys, I hope this was helpful to you. The panels you see down below especially our Facebook page. We are trying to grow that and also our Facebook group. Join our Facebook group like the Facebook page because I'll be dropping nuggets there as well. Also the Instagram page. Did you have any questions just mail me through there or just private message me through Instagram, Facebook or Twitter and I'll gladly answer and help you out? If you have any other questions about nationalization, send them in now because next week you're going to be discussing the frequently asked questions because some people have questions because they are rejected. They don't know why and how they put steps to continue with this the right place for you to be. So I'm here to help and I love to help as well. If you need a legal interpreter, I'm your girl, I'm your plug. Yes, with that I can help. I forgot to see that. So since 2022, I am your legal interpreter. You can call on me anytime. I said just message me on any of the platforms and it will talk business. We'll talk money. Okay, so thank you so much for watching and take good care of yourself. See you next time. Bye.