help needed RE ancestry visa!

hi,

i am currently in germany, i came from nz 3 months ago, thinking i would love to be an au pair for a year over here. well, i´ve decided it´s not enough, and i really want to live in europe.

i am eligable for an ancestry visa (my grandfather was born in scotland), but the only thing is to apply for it i have to be in new zealand!

does anyone know if there is anyway around this? i have already got my plane ticket home, but it would save me SO much time and money if i could move to the UK soon, rather than wait the year out, then go home and save up money again to come back.

any help would be much appreciated!

danielle :)

If you are legally resident in Germany (eg on a working visa) then you can apply in Germany. Otherwise it pretty much comes under "things you should have done before travelling"

It sounds to me like the one thing for sure is you don't know what you really want to say or ask. You wanted to go to Germany as an au pair didn't you? Now you say you want to live in Europe. Duhhh, you are living in Europe. So where's the problem or what is the issue you really want to deal with?

Are you unhappy in Germany and figure moving to the UK will make you happy? I suspect the real issue is you aren't happy as an au pair and figure an ancestry visa is the way to get out of that and still be able to stay in Europe.

hi alan,

thanks for your help. i am not sure whether i will be considered a legal resident, as i will be on an au pair visa. i was hoping i could send all the required documentation to nz in the post, and get a family member to sort it out for me, with my family and i posting documents back and forth, and pretending all the while that i am actually in nz at the time....

and coqnomen, i am unsure as to why you felt it necessary to reply to my request for help with a condescending rant based entirely on your own speculations. no, i am not unhappy as an au pair. i am quite enjoying it as a matter of fact. where i went wrong was thinking that i could get enough of europe in a year. i´ve decided i want to live here for much longer than a year, and an ancestry visa is the key to that. i am actually quite clear about what i want to say and ask. i want to know if there is a way around having to be in your home country to apply for the visa.

any ideas anyone?

thanks

danielle :-)

Can these things not be handled through an embassy?

OK danielle. The answer is no there is no legal way to get around it. You could of course try something illegal, like having someone at home apply in your name using your passport. That is not without risk however.

Hmmm, could be tricky - I hate to say it but some embassies will only process your application if you've been resident for 6 months.......

Just adding to my other post after reading #3.

I came over here on a working holiday visa too thinking I'd only be here for 6 months or so - still here almost 7 years later (and yeah, I qualify for an ancestry visa too but because I'd been resident in Ireland for 2 years I was ok to apply from there). I still don't think I've done or seen enough yet.

Shit, I may be wrong - took a look at http://www.britischebotschaft.de/en/consular/visas/</a> and I couldn't see anything about the 6 month residency requirement. Might be best just to call the number listed on the embassy page.