Thursday, February 9, 2012

Dual citizenship

I have dual citizenship since birth. German and Swedish.

Neither of these countries force you to give up your citizenship when getting a new one (at least not one in the EU).

The UK will allow me to become a citizen without denouncing my other citizenships.

Muhahahahahaa.....

Your personal number is invalid

It seems that when you leave the country you also leave some databases. I'm not sure if it's SPAR or something, but I'm not in birthday.se, and I've been told by at least one service (upplysning.se if I remember correctly) that my personal number is invalid.

I'm currently failing to register an account with binero.se. The form doesn't tell me straight out, but I suspect that it's rejecting my personal number.

Binero helpfully allows me to select United Kingdom from the dropdown of countries, but insists that I enter exactly 5 digits and nothing else (well, a space is optional) in the "zip code" field. *Le sigh*