Families whose ancestors became US citizens before 1918 were long told they had no claim. A June 2025 ministerial decision changed that. Jan Falath explains how.
Why the number of generations a country lets you count back tells you almost nothing about whether you will get the passport.
Zuzana Palovic, who campaigned for the 2022 reform, on how the descent route works now that the residence permit step is gone.
From Spain’s two-year Ibero-American track to Brazil’s one-year CPLP route: Here’s where the right first passport shortens the wait.
Globally, hundreds of millions of people have a great grandparent from an EU country. Too few of them are picking up citizenships for free.
18 months of lobbying has paid off. As many as 1.5 million Slovak descendants worldwide will now potentially be eligible for EU citizenship.
Among our ten most-read stories in 2021, half concerned Portugal and half were written by outside contributors. Merry Christmas.
Slovakia is about to take citizenship by descent one generation further by qualifying great-grandchildren of Slovaks and former Czechoslovaks.
