“Being European in a year”: which country allows you to process citizenship faster than Italy and Spain and without traveling
- In Argentina, interest in obtaining a Polish passport is growing.
- The requirements to obtain it are more strict.
- But the management can be resolved in just over 12 months.
By EMILIA VEXLER for Clarin.com
"In response to high demand," the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Buenos Aires reports on its website that two months ago there was a change in rules to reserve appointments online.
That from now on citizenship and passport procedures They will be by appointment only, and that The possibility of accessing a shift will be “without notice”, twice a week, “between 10 and 10.15”, so those interested will have to check the system e-konsulat.
With the background of how difficult it is to get a turn for Italian citizenship and even for the Spanish, in recent months interest in obtaining the Polish one in Argentina has been reactivated. But he tempo of wanting "to be Polish"In reality, it is marked by the economic crisis.
It is a red passport much less massive than the one so desired pink passport, due to the smaller number of Polish descendants than Italian (or Spanish) descendants in these lands, and due to the stricter requirements that limit obtaining that recognition from Poland.
But for Argentines who have the papers, "being Polish" is a procedure faster, although More expensive, than the one that implies becoming Italian or Spanish. And it offers the same benefits.
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What papers are used to obtain Polish citizenship?
Although there is no official data on how many Argentines applied for Polish citizenship or how many were granted in the last year, the file that is created with a new folder in the Mazowiecki urząd Wojewódzki wydział ds cudzoziemców (which is the Immigration Department, Warsaw Court) It is assigned a file number that keeps an annual count and gives a magnitude of the demand at a global level.
It is estimated that there are some 20 thousand delay folders in that court, which are divided among six judges.
“That is the only entity that allows determining whether a person is or is not a Polish citizen. Once obtained, the passport can be obtained at any embassy in the world,” explains Jonathan Jablonski, director of mipasaportepolaco.com.
The citizenships of descendants who never lived in Poland must be processed in that court. If they lived in another Polish city, they can present them there and everything can be resolved in much less than a year. «Even in three months», brand.
While talking to Clarion, Jablonski puts a customer on hold on a call. Only from Argentines he receives more than 100 new queries per day.
He takes difficult cases, with atypical legal bases. He is the country's leading specialist in these Polish issues and also has his own offices in Canada and Poland.
“A passport is the best insurance you have for your rights”, says. He has four passports and is about to process the fifth.
There are fewer cases of Argentines who have double European ancestry, one through the mother's line and the other through the paternal line. Today they are trying in all ways.
«Those who have Polish and Italian ancestry, go for Polish, because The Italian consulates here are full of folders. On the other hand, - he details - you can present everything directly in Poland with an advisor without having to travel or go to the Embassy here to make an appointment. The citizenship Italian is easier to put together the folder, but get a turn to get it approved is mission Impossible”.
Polish, at a technical-legal level, is the strictest citizenship to manage (another obstacle: married women can only transmit citizenship to their children born after January 19, 1951). But, again, if you have the papers (or if you get them) and you decide to invest, is the most agile.
“There are people who have the blood right Polish. His father was Polish, then he comes, and all the dates are fine. But you ask them: 'Do you have any paper proving that your grandfather was Polish?'. And they do not have. We can do searches in all the countries that were part of Poland,” the expert differentiates.
The most complicated thing is the story. Everything south of Vilnius, which is today the capital of Lithuania, was Polish territory. Also everything that was west of Minsk, which is the capital of Belarus; like everything that was the western region of Ukraine.
A Polish first and last name is not enough to start that search.
“Knowing the town is essential (it can be found in the death certificate or through family histories or through some Argentine documents), because in Poland the archives are organized at a local level, not nationally. There are people who tell me: 'Galicia Era' (in Polish, Galicja), which is like saying 'Patagonian era'. We also need the date of birth or a range of 5 or 10 years in which that relative is believed to have been born.”
There is more optional, non-mandatory data that helps. One is religion, to know if the search should be done, for example, in synagogues. For his expertise, and although there are some “ambiguous” surnames (like his, which is secular), he already realizes only whether that ancestor was Orthodox, Jewish or Catholic.
The names of the parents of the Polish person who emigrated are also useful, to limit the number of homonyms; and the year of arrival in Argentina is used, "to search for data in immigration records." A birth certificate is not enough in Poland.
At that point, 1920 is a key date.
How much does it cost to apply for Polish citizenship?
Poland existed as a kingdom until it was partitioned between Russia, Prussia, and Austria in 1795, which wiped it off the map for 123 years. It regained its independence in 1918 after the end of the First World War and in 1920 the first Polish citizenship law was enacted.
“It was then occupied in World War II, and after the fall of communism in 1989, it was established as the Third Polish Republic, which joined the European Union in 2004. The first Polish citizenship law He said that everyone who lived in his territory received it. You could be ethnically Russian, German, Ukrainian, but legally you were polish. On the other hand, you could be ethnically Polish but you left before 1920… so you did not receive Polish citizenship.”
A “basic” Polish citizenship, which means that the person has proof of Polish ancestors or does not require too much legal work, costs from 2,600 euros per person.
In this world of advisors and really old papers, it all starts with a free consultation. If there is an agreement, a contract is signed and the number of people who will begin the process, the deadlines for the process and the price are agreed upon. A third of the total is paid there.
On average, Argentine clients take three months to take these documents to the advisors, who then compare and send them to Poland, with the translations into Polish from a public translator who is among those authorized by each court.
In the next step, the legal briefs are drafted and the court fees are paid. It is from the presentation in the central court of Warsaw that the year is counted until "to be Polish".
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