Re: [Cz-L] Are we Rumanians?

My father and two of his brothers left Romania about 1927, for South
America, eventually living in Curacao and Panama.
My understanding is that their passports could not be because they did
not return to Romania.

In the case of my father, he obtained a Laissez-Passer for
international travel from the Dutch authorities on the island of
Curacao, where he had settled. This was his travel document when he
and my mother, who had Colombian citizenship at the time, when they
were stuck in Japan,as WWII made crossing the Pacific to return to the
Caribbean impossible.

When my parents immigrated to the US in 1952 they gained admission
under the Romanian quota.
However, they returned to Curacao and father eventually obtained
Panamanian citizenship and passport.

Apparently, my father could have restored his Romanian citizenship
before his death in 1994, according to
http://www.romanianpassport.co.il/english/, as the laws were written
to allow former citizens to regain their nationality.

"The Romanian Citizenship Law (Law #21) legislated in 1991, including
its amendments, is the primary law dealing with Romanian citizenships
issues, an issue that will affect the lives of hundreds of thousands
of people come January 1st 2007 when Romania joins the European Union.
It sets the conditions under which former citizens of Romania can
regain their Romanian citizenship.

The Romanian Citizenship Law establishes the right of former Romanian
citizens who had to relinquish their citizenship in order to leave the
country, to regain their Romanian citizenship, as it declares the
annulment process had no legal validity.

Second and Third generation descendants to these Romanian citizens are
also entitled to a Romanian Citizenship.
In order to execute this right and apply for a Romanian citizenship,
one would first have to re-establish the citizenship status of the
parent or grandparent. Only once they are in possession of a valid
Romanian Passport of the parent or grand parent they can apply for a
Romanian citizenship themselves.
This right is granted to any person, including people holding foreign
citizenships. There is no obligation for a person to waive his other
citizenships and he may hold several different passports."

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