Hi All
My mother was born in 1913 and often told me how they all became Romanian when the Bucovina was annexed some years after the First World War. My grandmother had thought of herself as being very Austrian! Amusingly she refused to learn Romanian, believing it to be a barbaric tongue. Nonsense of course. However - I believe everyone “became” Romanian, whether or not they wanted to.
Thank you Berti for your input. You are quite right, this is a very convoluted process. We are stagnating at the moment, the reason given here is a move of the Romanian Embassy location. Or so we are being told….
Karin
From: bounce-125330599-87608252_at_list.cornell.edu <bounce-125330599-87608252_at_list.cornell.edu> On Behalf Of Berti Glaubach
Sent: 25 January 2021 10:40
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Subject: Re: [czernowitz-l] Applying for Romanian Citizenship - Legal Support
Hello Alan,
The important question is if your grandfather born in Austro Hungary (1911 Wijnitz) obtained Rumanian citizenship after WWI. If he lived there, or somewhere in Bucovina, he probably did. If there is no documentation about that, you would have to go through legal proceedings in Rumania, (after obtaining an official birth certificate from the Ukrainian local authorities, notarized, apostilled and translated into Rumanian). The chances to show that he must have had Rumanian citizenship should be discussed with a competent lawyer, preferably Rumanian. It might be barely possible, but all the Czernowitzers I knew (me included) were born between WWI and WWII in Rumania, and regained their citizenship based on the birth certificate above mentioned.
The rest, for children or grandchildren, is a matter of bureaucracy, money and time.
Berti.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 3:21 AM Alan Gavurin <gavurin_at_gmail.com<mailto:gavurin_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
Friends
Forgive me if this has been discussed before but my brother and I are considering applying for Romanian citizenship because our late grandfather was born in Wiznitz/Vijnita/Vyzhnytsia in 1911
Have any of you gone down this path? I know of at least one other Czernowitzer who is.
Can any of you recommend a good Romanian lawyer who could help us.
I have already approached two Romanian lawyers - one says he does not take cases where the relatives come from outside current Romanian borders (ie present day Ukraine) and the other does not speak English so we are really struggling to understand the technicalities and I don't think Google Translate is helping very much
Any recommendations would be gratefully received
Alan
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