How to Get European Citizenship by Descent

EU Passport through Ancestral Connection

How Lviv Ecotour can help:

Ukraine Roots can search for old records to establish the necessary connection to an EU state.

In the first half of the 20th century, Western Ukraine was part of several European countries that are now EU members. Even if you were born outside of Europe and hold only American, or Canadian, or Australian citizenship, you may be eligible for foreign citizenship by ancestry, depending on which country your ancestors came from. Citizenship through ancestry is common in Europe. We can search for old records to establish the necessary connection to an EU state.

We can help make your claim for European Union citizenship by descent. We can search for old records to prove a required connection to an EU state. If the search is successful, we will get you a copy of a record for further authentication, which is necessary to build a case for obtaining an EU passport.

How this works:

you can apply to have your Polish, or other European Union, citizenship restored by proving your heritage. Most of the European countries can grant their citizenship on the principle of descent. Your application form needs to be accompanied by ancestral documents, such as vital records, archival records and documentary evidence. Lviv Ecotour can help get these documents from the state archives in Ukraine.

Why these documents may be in Ukraine:

until the start of World War 2, the western part of Ukraine, including the area around the cities of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Uzhhorod and Chernivtsi, was part of several European countries that are now members of the European Union. These countries are Poland, Slovakia/Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria and Romania. Each of them may have slightly different rules regarding granting citizenship. But the first step in the process is the same for all – one needs to find a documented connection to the land that was once part of a respective country.