ORIGOCitizenship by descent

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Tell us what you have

The more concrete the first message, the more useful our answer. Names as they were spelled, places as they were called then, approximate dates, and whatever documents the family kept — even a photograph of a page.

The office works on Romanian time (EET). If you write from the United States, expect the reply the following morning your time — it is a time difference, not silence.

Filing with the National Authority for Citizenship happens in Bucharest. Whether you travel here or a lawyer travels to the Romanian consulate in your own country is decided case by case — both routes exist. The overview of how a claim works explains what happens before that point.