Brexit: UK citizens ask for foreign citizenship even in Hungary

The number of those UK citizens who asked for nationality in an EU member state has been increasing steeply since 2017. According to index.hu, in the Central-European region, Hungary is the most popular among them. They added that based on BBC’s Saturday report 12,994 people received citizenship from these states.

German citizenship is the most popular

According to BBC, they received figures from 17 states, because in other cases they are not ready for publication. The growth is remarkably high: in 2016 there were only 5,025 UK citizens who received foreign citizenship. Besides, this number was only 1,800 in 2015 and 1,594 in 2014.

In fact, the most common nationality is German. According to BBC, the number of those receiving citizenship from Berlin was only 594 in 2015 while 7,493 in 2017. Furthermore, 1,518 UK citizens received French and 1,381 a Belgian passport. Fourth is Sweden on the list with 1,203.

An applicant, Paul Petty told BBC that he feels like Europe is pulling apart a bit.

“I want to remain part of the EU.”

– he added.

In Central-Europe Hungary is the most popular

Interestingly, in Central-Europe Hungary is the most popular country. In fact, 29 UK citizen asked for and received Hungarian citizenship last year. In the Czech Republic, this number is 26, in Poland 7 and Slovakia only 1.