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Any UK citizen can move there while it's still part of the UK. Do you think there would be minimum residency requirements for citizenship?

It's a bizarre thought that we may be seeing English illegal migrants being deported from Scotland in the not-too-distant future.

Also, how quickly could Scotland join the EU? I remember that being one of the sticking points of the first independence referendum.

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Honestly I wouldn't be surprised to see the Scottish government make it easy to get citizenship, at least in the short term. It would be an easy PR win to show large numbers of Brits requesting Scottish citizenship.

I hope so as I'd be one of those applying and moving. The whole Brexit mess is very very depressing. I hope the mess we are making goes to bolster Europe as a whole and show how it's so much better to just get along.

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