FLANNERUK...re: EU passport
 

my maternal grandmother was british (actually served as a nurse in france during WWI). does this mean that i can qualify for an EU passport as a legacy?

if so,what info would i need to provide and to whom in order to secure it?

There is no such thing as an EU passport.

And I'm afraid that unless you were born in the UK within a particular short time frame, you don't qualify for a British passport, either.

No British passport but if you are a Commonwealth citizen you can qualify for an ancestry visa, allowing you to live and work in UK (only) for 4 years. You need to prove your 'ancestry'. i.e. birth certificates for yourself and your mother, and apply to the nearest British consulate.
If your grandmother was born in what is now Northern Ireland, you can qualify for Irish citizenship.

Subcon:
I used the term "EU passport" in an earlier post as shorthand for "passport of an EU member state giving you the right to work in any EU state". Thank you Sheila and Alec for pointing out how confusing this might be.

I'm sorry if I gave you the impression the EU is issuing its own passports. Many of us - myself included - are very sensitive on this issue. If the EU ever does issue passports it'll be over my dead body.

I'm not sure about the other 12 member states, but possession of a British parent or Italian or Irish grandparent might make you eligible (since there are ifs and buts) for citizenship of the country concerned. A British grandparent, of itself, doesn't help, except in the circumstances Alec points out.

But, in the case of Ireland, an Irish grandparent means more or less anyone born in the island of Ireland (North or South). Many, like my own grandfather, were born in what's now the Republic - but the UK before 1922 - regarded themselves as British, served in the British Army and never had any kind of Irish documentation. Read Kipling, and you can sometimes get the impression the British Army was entirely manned by the Irish.
So check where your grandmother was born. For further information more relevant to Americans, try www.irelandemb.org/fbr.html

well, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't.

thanks, anyhow, for the responses.