Polish grandparents, citizenship? Parents moved from Poland to Australia before my birth.

I live in Australia. My mum and dad are both Polish and emigrated to Australia before my birth. I have no contact with my dad (gone without a trace) and my mum hasn't got any of the necessary documents, nor is she willing to apply for them. Is there a chance I would get a confirmation of citizenship through my grandparents (all passed on) or is it necessary for my mum to confirm her own citizenship first?

Sorry, to add: I speak the language fluently, have held polish passports in my name as a child and have gone to school in Poland. My mum hasn't been back to Poland since this new law came in and I don't know where to start.

In this case, you should be able to just apply for a new passport. You need the personal identification number - PESEL - do you have it anywhere?

Hello delphiandomine, thank you for your response. I've asked my mum and she said I've never had a PESEL. The passports were child passports, I still have one (expired 2011). My mum told me she also can't apply for a Polish passport without first confirming her own citizenship?

I checked again, and it looks like it's possible to get one without a PESEL. In your case, with a passport that expired in 2011, you won't have any difficulties.

The website is here - sydney.msz.gov.pl/pl/informacje_konsularne/paszporty/paszporty
- you should just apply for a new one. You don't need to worry about claiming citizenship from your parents or grandparents, as you've already had a passport issued in your own name.

It should be pretty straightforward, but the lack of PESEL might cause issues - I'd call the consulate in Sydney and double check.

I don't have any of these it seems:

C. Dokument potwierdzający posiadanie obywatelstwa polskiego (ważny dowód osobisty, ważny paszport, poświadczenie obywatelstwa polskiego wydane przez właściwego Wojewodę lub postanowienie Prezydenta RP o nadaniu obywatelstwa polskiego).

Or this:

E. Odpis aktu urodzenia wydany przez polski urząd stanu cywilnego.*
Dotyczy osób ubiegających się o polski paszport po raz pierwszy, dzieci wpisanych dotychczas do paszportu rodzica oraz w przypadku rozbieżności w danych osobowych. Dotyczy to również osób urodzonych poza Polską (patrz: informacja dot. umiejscawiania zagranicznych dokumentów stanu cywilnego na stronie "Sprawy prawne"), a także osób, które nie posiadają numeru PESEL.

Which I thought I needed the citizenship confirmation for, I thought the laws changed recently and you are now required to somehow confirm your citizenship via decent in order to receive this? Even if you were definitely a citizen before these laws came about? I don't know much about these laws so apologies if anything I say is stupid.

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Applying for Polish Citizenship for Child Born in Australia

My husband is a Polish citizen, and we have just had a baby (born in Australia). We would like to obtain proof of Polish citizenship for the baby. I have had a look on the Polish consulates website and it looks like a fairly complicated process. We will be travelling to Poland in a couple of months to visit family, does anyone know if it is possible/easier to do directly over there? Or if the process for doing it in Australia is the same for a newborn baby as an adult (obviously he is not going to write/sign the declaration etc. himself!)?

My husband is not an Australian resident or citizen, if that has any relevance.

Bring with you all the documents your husband has confirming his citizenship. have the baby's birth certificate translated (by a sworn translator) into Polish. Then upon your arrival go immediately to the Urzad Cywilny in your husband's birthplace and register the baby.