Is this possible?

[Gazz]

Was just wondering if you entered a country illegally (like the Mexicans do with the USA) and stayed there for 'X' amount of time - would you be able to get citizenship with that country if you stayed there long enough?

Just curious - does ANY country in the world permit this?

[Lord Percy]

I think Obama did it for a shitload of Hispanics in the southern states quite recently.

In Australia they used to have immigrant 'amnesties', where you could go somewhere and just tell them you'd been there for X years and if it sounded good enough they'd hand you a passport. But that's changed now I guess.

I bet you could get citizenship pretty easily in a poor country. You could also marry into a rich family with a beautiful domestic goddess, where they all only like you because you're white and British. Awful but still true in many places, or at least that's what I was promised on more than one occasion in India and Laos...

[Easter Bunny]

I doubt it, it doesn't show a lot of respect for the authority of the country however my father in law emigrated to Oz and it about 15 years later it appeared he hadn't done something a year after he was there and had to leave the country to sort out the paperwork over here, I'm sure they let him back in as he had a business, if he'd been a bum it'd be bye bye!
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[Islander]

You'd be gambling on an amnesty being declared. Not the best basis for starting a new life really.

[Gazz]

[ocatoro]

i have a turkish friend who came in illegally, then obtained the correct legal documents to stay later. he ran a business, paid taxes, employed welsh people, and enrolled in college.

then he decided to become a british citizen and they deported him....

go figure
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[keggyhander]

Elvis's manager, Colonel Tom Parker (real name Andries Van Kuijk) entered the USA illegally on a freighter from Holland. He never applied for, or received, a US passport and did not possess a Dutch one either. He was essentially stateless.

[Al]

I met a British guy in New Zealand that had been living in Tasmania for 20 years without any kind of visa. He had a girlfriend and a kid at school over there and had been doing photography work or something for cash for years.
It did eventually catch up with him as he had to leave Australia to apply for a proper visa. I'm not sure if he got caught or if he just got fed up and tried to go legit but it seemed like a pretty shitty time for him and his family as they were in limbo.
He did eventually get let back in to Australia as he emailed me about six months later to tell me which was nice .
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[Whosthedaddy]

No, any overstayer is referred to immigration and are deported 7 out of 10 times.
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[chrisw]

My old man came into the UK on his mothers (British) passport as a young child. Despite working for the NHS, local councils, going through college as a mature student and marrying my mother (British) he wasn't allowed a passport until a few years before he died (I have few docs. from the passport office saying he wasn't British and to bugger off).
Weirdly he managed to get in and out of the UK a couple of times on Visas without much of a problem, only the French caused a problem, they arrested and deported him back to the UK

My personal take on all this border bollocks? Knock 'em down, they cause nothing but problems.