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grannytopoland   
24 Sep 2009
Life / Help required obtaining Polish Passport for Granny [10]

Thank you very much. I went ahead and contacted the attorney to ask for his opinion.

My real thought is would her father/my great-grandfather have been "stateless" simply because he was abroad at the time?
grannytopoland   
21 Sep 2009
Life / Help required obtaining Polish Passport for Granny [10]

Sorry I made an error - her father actually came just before 1900 (when it was Austria Hungary), but he didn't actually become an American citizen until the 1940s. So her father wouldn't have been "stateless" between that time period and besides his US docs state he was a citizen of Poland.

Most of her family has passed away and she'd like some ties to her roots (I'm helping her work on genealogy, hope to track down some long lost relatives). She actually quite enjoys this.

She wasn't "naturalized" in the US - her US citizenship was automatic so I don't see how she could have lost anything because of it.
grannytopoland   
21 Sep 2009
Life / Help required obtaining Polish Passport for Granny [10]

My grandmother needs help getting her Polish passport.

She has documents (US citizenship certificate copy and entire immigration) ordered direct from USICS (what was formerly the INS, is now under Homeland security) showing that her father came to the USA from Lesko, Poland in 1870. He did not become an American Citizen until 1945.

My grandmother was born in 1924 in the USA.

She never renounced her right to Polish citizenship.

Today she is in her 80s years old, retired and living near Guadalajara, Mexico. She wants to get her Polish passport. What is needed to do so?

As it has been a long wait to get the papers we needed from the US government we want her to get her Polish Passport as soon as possible.

If anyone could recommend a good Polish attorney or if anyone knows who would be the best person to contact in the Polish government it would be much appreciated.

Myself (and the rest of her family) live here in the US - she is just in Mexico as another overfunded gringo retiree :)

Thank you,