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		gaius on July 28, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask YC: Where's the escape hatch? I'd like to leav... Scotland's fairly lenient; I've a Canadian friend whose (IIRC) great-grandfather was Scottish and he got in with no problems. Not long after that I signed his citizenship papers.

garrydanger on July 28, 2008 [–]

Don't the same laws that apply to Scotland also apply to England and Northen Ireland seeings as they are all states inside of the United Kingdom?

gaius on July 28, 2008 | [–]

I'm not entirely sure about this, but I think Scotland allows more generations ago than England. But yes, once you're in you can work anywhere in the UK.

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