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Polish ancestors who settled in Canada may have left you a Canadian citizenship claim under Bill C-3. See the key dates, records and how the claim works.

Is dual US-Polish citizenship allowed? What current law says, what the proposed Exclusive Citizenship Act would do, and what it means for a Polish claim.

How filing works for Polish citizenship by descent: consulate vs Voivode, the representative you need in Poland, fees, documents and the appeal deadline.

Ancestors born in Lwów, Wilno or the Kresy may still qualify. See how interwar Poland, the partitions and 1945 affect a Polish citizenship claim.

Naturalization, foreign army service and marriage could end Polish citizenship before 1951. Learn the key dates and what officials check in descent claims.

One question comes up more than almost any other in our inbox: “My great-grandfather was Polish — am I too many generations removed to qualify?” The good news is that, unlike many other European citizenship-by-descent programs, Poland places no cap on the number of generations…

Hiring the right lawyer can be the difference between a citizenship application that moves steadily toward approval and one that stalls, accumulates unnecessary refusals, or costs far more than it should. Yet the market for Polish citizenship legal services — particularly online — contains a…

Before the Holocaust, Poland was home to the largest Jewish population in the world — approximately 3.3 million people, representing around 10% of the country’s total population. The vast majority were murdered during the Nazi occupation. Those who survived, and the generations of Polish Jews…

One of the most confusing aspects of Polish citizenship law — particularly for English speakers approaching it for the first time — is the distinction between two processes that sound similar but are legally quite different: confirmation of citizenship and application for citizenship. Getting this…