Gosh, I hope you get your passport renewed, Joss. Wouldn't be able to travel to other countries without it.

Lol

Under EU law yes. But can be pain to prove in the individual European country from a paperwork point of view. I was almost denied boarding on a flight with my EU husband because at the time I did not have EU passport. Only when manager in back did research , she came out and said I was right. Sometimes local officials do not know the EU law and that is where u run into problems on daily basis. U need the paperwork to get yourself out of weird situations where people are ignorant.

Once you are married to a German it‘s quite easy to obtain German citizenship. My Mexican did it about a year or two after we got married, wasn’t a big deal not even a test was required. And since the Mexican government wouldn’t let her out of her Mexican citizenship, she now has two passports (her Mexican one expired about a decade ago but she never renewed it since the costs are pretty high if you live abroad. Using the German passport abroad is more convenient though).

Son 90 días con pasaporte mexicano.

3 meses nada mas

Puede pagar una prórroga para estar 3 meses más como turista.

Genauso ist es (spreche aus Erfahrung). Aber wenn man das macht, hat man ja keinen Content mehr und kann sich nicht negativ über deutsche Behörden auslassen. It’s all about clicks.

Estar casado con un ciudadano alemán no garantiza qué puedas vivir en 🇩🇪 , necesitas cumplir todos los requisitos da igual si estas casado o no, conozco extranjeros casados con alemanes qué llevan 2 años tratando de obtener una visa de reunificación familiar para poder vivir con su pareja en 🇩🇪.

Jaaaa! Germany ! It is a lost Case so far. Slow as a turtle 🐢

In their case yes, I agree. But the law has to be same for anyone. And citizenship afaik is never granted just as part of a marrying a citizen, only a residence permit. Citizenship can be applied for later at some point. Sham marriages are extremely wide spread, so there are rules in place to prevent those. Don't ask me what they are exactly, but afaik there's even things like visiting the married couple at home unannouced in the early morning to check if they are actually living together or are just married on paper, questioning the neighbors, asking both partners seperate from one another how and where they met, what their hopes and dreams as couple are etc. There are often cases where for example a German get's payed like 20-50k € to marry someone, then pretend to live together until permanent residence is granted and then they go their separate ways. So I see why citizenship would not be granted just like that, but I still don't see why everything has to be so unnecessarily complicated and painfully slow...