The vote for the UK to leave the European Union last summer had a "clear" impact on the skyrocketing number of Brits seeking German citizenship, figures obtained by The Local show. Figures obtained by The Local show that after the Brexit referendum last summer, the number of Brits applying for German citizenship in major metropolitan areas increased by more than fivefold. In Hamburg, 280 British passport-holders applied for German citizenship in 2016 - more than five times as many as the 52 who applied for citizenship in 2015. And just in the rough time period after the Brexit referendum vote on June 23rd, 206 people applied. “The most massive increase [in naturalization applications] was among British nationals and this trend is continuing,” the Darmstadt authority wrote in the report.

Source: The Local May 12, 2017 15:11 UTC