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Who can benefit from Romanian citizenship services?

You can benefit from our Romanian citizenship services from our office if:
 

• You have been born in Romania and emigrated or were adopted out of Romania at any point in time; or
   

• Have a parent who was a Romanian citizen at any point in their lifetime and is alive; or
   

• Have a parent or grandparent (any one suffices) who was a Romanian citizen at any point in their lifetime, is not alive, provided they departed present-day Romania on or after 1949; or
   

• Have a parent or grandparent who lost citizenship in 1940 in North-Western Transylvania, when it was annexed by Hungary, and who did not return to Romania, provided that all their life path and name changes are perfectly documented [we can undertake this research at your risk for a fee]. This includes victims of the Holocaust from North-Western Transylvania, provided their life path and name changes are perfectly documented; or
   

• Have a parent or grandparent who emigrated from Romania towards Turkiye, provided that they were born in present-day Romania, i.e. in Tulcea or Constanta counties, and not in Bulgaria (!) and provided that you have perfect documentation showing their original Romanian names [we can undertake a research for their birth records at your risk for a fee]; or
   

• Have a parent or grandparent who was "repatriated" by the German authorities in the 1940s, as being of ethnic-German kin ("Volksdeutsch"), provided they were born in present-day Romania and that we find their case file in the EinwanderungsZentralStelle archive in Germany [we can undertake this research at your risk for a fee]; or
   

• Have a parent or grandparent who emigrated to mandate Palestine, i.e. before 1948, provided that we find their record in the Naturalization files of Mandate Palestine [we can undertake this research at your risk for a fee]; or
   

• Have a parent, grandparent or great-grandparent who was born in one of the following localities presently in Serbia: Gaiul Mare, Krivabara, Surian, Pardany and Modos / Jasa Tomic; or
   

• Have a parent, grandparent or great-grandparent who was born between 1918 and 1940 in Northern Bukovina or the Bugeac (i.e. present-day Ukraine), ​provided that they then left directly to a foreign country (or remained in Ukraine), and did not move further East inside the USSR.
   

​Important:

The list above only shows what type of cases we currently take. It is not exhaustive of the theoretical possibilities to apply for citizenship by descent. However, we do not take any other cases than the above.

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Can I apply if my ancestor was born in present-day Republic of Moldova or Bulgaria?

You may be entitled to apply, but we do not provide services for such cases, nor assistance or alternative ideas.

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Can I apply through a great-grandparent?

You may be entitled to apply even outside of the cases mentioned above, however, we do not take or advise on any other cases than the list above.

If my parent applies through a grandparent, can I then apply through my parent?

If you are over 18 and you would otherwise qualify only through a great-grandparent, in other words if your great-grandparent was the last person born in Romania, and you do not meet the criteria in the list above, then we will not take your case. Having a parent who applies and obtains citizenship first is not helpful in any way for their adult children.

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What about minors (persons under 18)?

If you can benefit from citizenship services according to the list above, and you have children under 18, they can be included in your application and should be included, because they risk losing their entitlement once they become adults! We will gladly take your case as long as you yourself fit into one of the cases in the list above.

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