# Who Wants EU / AUS Citizenship **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-eu-aus-citizenship/525422 "2010-01-18T14:29:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-eu-aus-citizenship/525422/1 "2010-01-18T14:29:43Z")
If any US dopers want EU (British) citizenship I would be happy to enter to an arrangement of marriage with you. I will get the right to live and work in the US and you will get the right to live and work anywhere in the EU or Australia. As long as no laws are broken that is… It seems that is the only way for someone like me to immigrate to the US. It would of course be a marriage of convenience. BTW I am serious. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-eu-aus-citizenship/525422/2 "2010-01-18T14:57:08Z")
I don’t think British citizenship brings with it the right to migrate to Australia, even though it did a long time ago. On the other hand, I have three sons, all of marriageable age (32, 30 and 24), all single, all without girlfriends (as far as I know), and all Australian citizens. If any women would like an introduction, I can arrange one. (And one lives in Slough, which would be very convenient to anyone in the UK or nearby). ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-eu-aus-citizenship/525422/3 "2010-01-18T15:20:53Z")
> [@Imasquare](#): > > As long as no laws are broken that is… > > It would of course be a marriage of convenience. IANAL, but I foresee a pretty big problem right there… ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-eu-aus-citizenship/525422/4 "2010-01-18T15:21:41Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t think British citizenship brings with it the right to migrate to Australia, even though it did a long time ago. Don’t you have to, like, steal a horse or something first? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-eu-aus-citizenship/525422/5 "2010-01-18T15:29:34Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > And one lives in Slough, which would be very convenient to anyone in the UK or nearby. Isn’t Slough where the original “The Office” series was set? And the home office was in Swindon? Not that I’m looking to marry one of your sons. Not legal in the USA for a multitude of reasons. **Imasquare** - which gender are you, not that it much matters? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-eu-aus-citizenship/525422/6 "2010-01-18T15:35:57Z")
> [@Shade](#): > > Don’t you have to, like, steal a horse or something first? Fortunately those days are long past. If they weren’t, Australia would be full of British petty criminals – it has enough of its own, thank you. And yes, _The Office_ was set in Slough. It’s not on anyone’s top ten list of desirable places to visit in England, even with that recommendation. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-eu-aus-citizenship/525422/7 "2010-01-18T15:38:57Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > **Imasquare** - which gender are you, not that it much matters? Well, depending on where the marriage gets registered, I would say it matters very much! I wonder, does anybody know whether there has been anybody who has tried to immigrate to the US on grounds of being married or engaged to a person of the same gender? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-eu-aus-citizenship/525422/8 "2010-01-18T15:40:48Z")
The SDMB isn’t a dating site, and I guess marriages of convenience fall into that category as well. Locked. twickster, MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-eu-aus-citizenship/525422/9 "2010-01-18T17:04:49Z")
> [@](#): > > I will get the right to live and work in the US and you will get the right to live and work anywhere in the EU or Australia. > > As long as no laws are broken that is… > > It seems that is the only way for someone like me to immigrate to the US. > > It would of course be a marriage of convenience. This sort of arrangement is illegal in the US. I don’t know about other countries. And, of course, the SDMB is, as **twickster** noted, not a dating site.