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> 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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> London
> UK
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