Does the line hold? Citizenship by descent, one verdict at a time.
Whether your grandparent's line reaches you under Ireland's, Canada's, Germany's, Italy's or Poland's rule, where it breaks, and the order that proves it. Dated, sourced, never paid by the application.
Citizenship by descent through a mother breaks at 1948 in Italy, 1975 in Germany, 1983 in Britain. Two of the three have a repair route; one needs a court.
If a parent naturalised before you were born, a German, Italian, Canadian or Polish citizenship by descent claim usually ends there. Ireland is the exception.
Can you lose your citizenship before you are born? The seven breaks that end a descent claim in Ireland, Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK, dated.
What countries allow dual citizenship with the US? All six a descent claim runs through, each rule dated, and the German one that changed on 27 June 2024.
There is no worldwide limit on how many citizenships you can have, only each country's rule about its own. Ireland, Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland and the US.
Registration, proof, certificate, recognition, confirmation: what a certificate of citizenship by descent is called in each country, and who issues it.
Most claims are a form the register takes from you. Four situations need a citizenship by descent lawyer: a court, a discretion, a restoration, a disputed loss.
How do you know if you have dual citizenship already? In Canada, Germany, Italy and Poland a qualifying line makes you one at birth. Ireland is different.
Whether a grandparent born in Ireland, Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland or the UK passes citizenship by descent to you, and where the answer is stop here.