Czech Citizenship

[otto]

Hi Suniskys
Thanks for your advice, but I already have a czech citizenship, but Wer thinks I should not. as I hold an Australian citizenship. Yes, as you stated, I did go to the czech embassy and they did sort it out for me quite well. No problem, exept I had to get a birth certificate, which took time. They even said my children could have a czech citizenship together with their British Citizenship, but unfortunately I had to decline as neither speak a word of czech. ( I blame my mother for this. She said knowing czech will not help them in this wide world)
I dearly love going back to Prague, but alas I cannot ever live there as dearly as I would like, mainly all my family now lives in the Uk. The wife is English.
Well thanks for your advice
Regards
Otto

[JR]

Hi Sunisky, I'm not certain if you (or anyone else who can relate to this topic) is reading this but I'm in a similar situation at the present time. My mother was born in the town of As, in Czech and left in the late 1930's when she was just 2 weeks old, emigrating to Canada. She never sought her Czech citizenship and holds only a Canadian passport.

My mother is now seeking her Czech citizenship and just has her birth certificate from the town of As. She has sent in her marriage certifcate (translated into Czech) and is now waiting for word back from the Czech government to see if she will receive her citizehship, claiming that she never "gave up" her citizenship becasue she never had it.

As her unmarried Canadian born daughter, I'm would like to apply to Czech citizenship as well through claim of ancestry. What advice do you have, time, process...etc. for myself once my mother receives her citizenship? All responses are welcome!

thanks,

JR

[thisisnotdel]

I got Czech citizenship back when I was about 9, not just me, but my mother, and sister. I think it really depends, so yes, I have dual citizenship, Canadian and Czech.

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[MK]

[Kanadanka]

we left in 1969 and neither my parents, nor my brother and I lost our Czech citizenship even after becoming Canadian citizens. We even managed to get our properties back several years ago. We are now exploring the option of having my husband (who is Canadian born of English ancestry) and our children apply for Czech citizenship.
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[gypzy]

[kimba]

I researched this too, contacting the Czech Embassy in the US and asking them. I had no clue - my grandfather was born in Bohemia and taking a cue from the Italians (if you had even one grandparent who was born in Italy you can apply for Italian citizanship) I decided to find out if the Czechs were ready to welcome us all back.

I thought this would actually be the easiest way to attain EU citizanship which is what I was really searching for.

Phew, what a rigamarole I landed in! There was a list about two feet long that gave all of the conditions on whether or not it was possible in any given instance to attain citzenship. If my grandfather was born during certain years but emigrated during other certain years then no, but if he emigrated later then yes and what was the condition of the emigration (was it before a war or during a war) and this went on and on and on ...

The weird thing was that the folks at the embassy seemed to really want to help me do this and were eager to help me find a loophole. Although, I gave up before they did ...

[ta]

Hi MK,

that was a great info you gave us! Thanks!
By the way, where did you get the original cut-paste citation of that law? Could you tell me the exact source? I would like to use it but I need the whole thing...

Thanks!