Embassies contacted by BuzzFeed News say they've had up to 10 times the usual numbers of queries about citizenship.

Embassies of EU countries have been receiving a flurry of queries about citizenship from Brits in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU, BuzzFeed News has learned.

Every embassy that responded to BuzzFeed News said they had seen a large surge in their usual volume of queries following the vote, either from British citizens exploring whether they could get a passport from an EU nation, or from people eligible for dual citizenship wanting to explore that route.

The surge reflects concern about whether Brits will retain the right to live and work in Europe following Brexit.

Despite assurances during the campaign, the prime minister and the Home Office both admitted this week that were was no guarantee existing EU citizens would keep the right to live and work in the UK – largely so this could be used as leverage during negotiation talks – and, by corollary, this means there would be no automatic right for Brits to live and work in the EU.

No change would occur until Britain left the EU, which is not likely to happen for several years.

Here's what the different countries' embassies said.

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The Netherlands

"Since the EU referendum result on Friday, we have received around 200-250 inquiries by email about nationality," an embassy spokeswoman told BuzzFeed News.

"That includes both British citizens inquiring about applying for Dutch nationality, and Dutch citizens resident in the UK inquiring about British nationality.

"This is around 10 times the number we would receive in an ordinary week."

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Denmark

"I am not able to disclose exact figures," a spokesman said. "But can confirm that, in the wake of the EU referendum, we did indeed see a noticeable increase in inquiries from both British and Danish citizens, especially about the procedures for dual nationality."

However, speaking on Thursday, the spokesman added: "The amount of inquiries, however, is now starting to ease off."

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Ireland

The UK's nearest neighbour was one of the earliest countries to get a noticeable surge of interest in citizenship requests, with people tweeting that citizenship forms were running out in their post offices, such was the demand.

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