Parnek
1 May 2016
Law / Confirming (or denying) Polish citizenship? My paternal grandfather was Polish. [8]
Hello everyone,
thought I'd keep any readers in the loop and I also registered, since I have decided to really go forward with this.
Might be useful for people going down this road later on.
Now, as to the evidence I am going to send in, do you think this is a sufficient chain of evidence?
-Polish birth certificate of my grandfather, who I want to derive my citizenship from, in 1920
-Yet to be obtained Polish document proving his citizenship. I am on it via the national archives. Hoping to be able to obtain some voter registration (Election 1938?) or residence records, or similar. If I'm not able to find it, I'll have to go for supplementary indications and hope they will run with it or initiate further research for the case after I hand it in
-("international" multilingual) German birth certificate of my father, in 1955.
-("international" multilingual) German own birth certificate, in 1993
- Certified copy of my German ID (my regional embassy/consulate listed this and my own birth certificate required)
Do you think they will also need
- My polish grandfather & german grandmother's marriage certificate from sometime in the early 1950s? (I'd have to find out where and when, and obtain it)
- My parents' marriage certificate from the 1980s? I don't think so though (polish dad would pass on citizenship anyway, would he not? And the parentage is already proven with birth records), and I think that would be a bit of a pain as they married in Denmark and I'd have to research how to get an international marriage certificate from there.
- Translated German naturalization records of myself and maybe my father? However, I don't feel like this is relevant? This happened two months after my birth and should not change anything if I understood the laws correctly.
I mean, I can always send in further documents if they request it, but of course I'd be good if I gave them all necessary docs right away. ;)
Anyway, thanks for reading and I'm always glad for suggestions / input. Currently on it to find someone to receive my post within Poland, as this is sadly required for a few years now (what a strange rule).
Greetings,
Parnek
PS. I hope it is ok to make an off topic question like this, but would anyone be willing to proof-read/correct some "biographies" about myself, parents, and grandparents (in sum, 7)?
I tried to puzzle it together with my rather limited language skill and internet research. Bound to have errors though, so I'd appreciate it.
Hi everyone,
just wanted to keep you informed, if you're interested, that I sent my documents and application to my consulate yesterday. It all worked out with the translation and finding a post recipient / service agent. If anyone here is ever searching, the law office of Krzysztof Banek offers post recipient services as well as handling entire cases: polish-citizenship.
Also, besides the 11-pages-forms, I added birth certificates from me, my father and my grandfather (who I derive citizenship from, I got a polish birth certificate for him). Also, my parents' and grandparents' birth certificates are among the documents I sent in, too. After advice from my consulate, I was able to simply use 'international' (CIEC) multi-language birth certificates from the german civil registry offices.
I'll keep you updated what else they may request, and how they'll decide
Hello everyone,
thought I'd keep any readers in the loop and I also registered, since I have decided to really go forward with this.
Might be useful for people going down this road later on.
Now, as to the evidence I am going to send in, do you think this is a sufficient chain of evidence?
-Polish birth certificate of my grandfather, who I want to derive my citizenship from, in 1920
-Yet to be obtained Polish document proving his citizenship. I am on it via the national archives. Hoping to be able to obtain some voter registration (Election 1938?) or residence records, or similar. If I'm not able to find it, I'll have to go for supplementary indications and hope they will run with it or initiate further research for the case after I hand it in
-("international" multilingual) German birth certificate of my father, in 1955.
-("international" multilingual) German own birth certificate, in 1993
- Certified copy of my German ID (my regional embassy/consulate listed this and my own birth certificate required)
Do you think they will also need
- My polish grandfather & german grandmother's marriage certificate from sometime in the early 1950s? (I'd have to find out where and when, and obtain it)
- My parents' marriage certificate from the 1980s? I don't think so though (polish dad would pass on citizenship anyway, would he not? And the parentage is already proven with birth records), and I think that would be a bit of a pain as they married in Denmark and I'd have to research how to get an international marriage certificate from there.
- Translated German naturalization records of myself and maybe my father? However, I don't feel like this is relevant? This happened two months after my birth and should not change anything if I understood the laws correctly.
I mean, I can always send in further documents if they request it, but of course I'd be good if I gave them all necessary docs right away. ;)
Anyway, thanks for reading and I'm always glad for suggestions / input. Currently on it to find someone to receive my post within Poland, as this is sadly required for a few years now (what a strange rule).
Greetings,
Parnek
PS. I hope it is ok to make an off topic question like this, but would anyone be willing to proof-read/correct some "biographies" about myself, parents, and grandparents (in sum, 7)?
I tried to puzzle it together with my rather limited language skill and internet research. Bound to have errors though, so I'd appreciate it.
Hi everyone,
just wanted to keep you informed, if you're interested, that I sent my documents and application to my consulate yesterday. It all worked out with the translation and finding a post recipient / service agent. If anyone here is ever searching, the law office of Krzysztof Banek offers post recipient services as well as handling entire cases: polish-citizenship.
Also, besides the 11-pages-forms, I added birth certificates from me, my father and my grandfather (who I derive citizenship from, I got a polish birth certificate for him). Also, my parents' and grandparents' birth certificates are among the documents I sent in, too. After advice from my consulate, I was able to simply use 'international' (CIEC) multi-language birth certificates from the german civil registry offices.
I'll keep you updated what else they may request, and how they'll decide