How do I know if I qualify?

If a parent, grandparent, or in some countries a great-grandparent was born abroad or held another citizenship, you may have a claim. Every country sets its own rules on generations and dates. Our free eligibility check maps your family history and tells you plainly where you stand.

Which countries do you cover?

We work across a growing range of descent pathways, from Italy, Ireland, and Poland to Canada and Mexico, with more opening all the time. Your free eligibility check finds your family's strongest claim, and if it sits somewhere we cannot help yet, we say so up front.

What does done-for-you actually include?

Everything between your story and your passport. Genealogy and record search, retrieval from archives, notarization, apostille and authentication, certified translations, document logistics, consular appointments, and licensed counsel where a case requires it. One team coordinates all of it.

How long does the process take?

With documents in hand, an application is typically prepared and filed in one to three months. Total timelines depend on the country and consular queues. After your consultation you get a clear timeline for your case and updates at every milestone.

Can my spouse and children be included?

Often, yes, and frequently more of the family than you'd expect. Children usually qualify through a parent, spouses may have a separate marriage-based route, and because a claim descends from a shared ancestor, siblings, cousins, and wider relatives often qualify on the same line. We only charge for living applicants whose cases we process.

Will I have to give up my current citizenship?

Almost never. We only work with countries that permit multiple nationality, so you keep the passport you hold, provided your current country allows dual nationality too, which we confirm up front. Every citizenship carries its own considerations, from tax to residency, and we flag anything worth weighing before you take it on.

Citizenship runs in the family.

Borderless maps your eligibility across every citizenship-by-descent pathway your lineage opens up. Then we drive the process that follows, commissioning the genealogy, gathering records, handling translations and apostilles, and preparing the consular file. So you don't have to.

Free eligibility check · ~2 minutes · No documents required

140+

Countries recognize citizenship by descent or dual nationality

185+

Visa-free destinations with an EU passport

1–3 mo

To prepare and file once documents are in hand

Popular pathways

Lineage analysislive · italy

Giuseppe · Grandfather

b. 1927 · Naples, Italy

Birth record · Comune di Napoli, 1927

✓ No naturalization break in line

Maria · Mother

b. 1958 · Newark, NJ

Birth certificate · New Jersey, 1958

✓ Citizenship passed at birth

You

b. 1991 · New York, NY

Primary applicant

Eligible · Italian citizenship

Jure sanguinis · unbroken line of descent

Qualifying ancestor confirmed. Next: certified records and a consulate filing plan.

How it works

An unbroken chain, proven across borders.

Citizenship is an inheritance, passed from parent to child at birth and carried across borders and down the generations. Where the chain never broke, the claim is still alive. We follow it, document every link, and prove it on the record.

Passed at birth

Many countries pass citizenship from parent to child automatically, whether or not anyone ever registered it.

Survives emigration

Your ancestor leaving the country rarely ended the line. More often, it carried on through the generations that followed.

Breaks in specific events

The chain breaks at defined moments: a naturalization before a child's birth, a renunciation, certain marriages. Each country also sets its own limit on how far back a claim reaches, and we check every one.

Where the line begins

Naples, ItalyCork, IrelandKraków, PolandLisbon, PortugalThessaloniki, GreecePalermo, SicilyLviv, UkraineVilnius, LithuaniaBudapest, HungaryBucharest, RomaniaPorto, PortugalGalway, IrelandBiałystok, PolandAthens, Greece

Your eligibility

A name is all it takes to begin.

It often comes down to one person: an anchor ancestor a claim can rest on. Identifying the right one is where we begin, not the whole of the work. From that name we commission the genealogy and map the chain of life events that can carry their status down to you. Births, marriages, naturalizations, each one a link we document and prove.

Tell us your story

Start with what you remember. Names, places, family lore. Fragments are fine, that is usually all anyone has.

We resolve your history

Borders moved and records scattered. We reconcile old place names, spellings, and dates into a verified family history.

Strategic pathway mapping

Every line of descent is tested against each country's current rules, across all your ancestries, not just the obvious one.

Done for you, to the finish

Choose your pathway and we run the case. Records, apostilles, translations, consulates, every step until the passport is in your hand.

A growing atlas of descent pathways

Italyjure sanguinis

Irelandforeign births register

GermanyStAG §5 restoration

Polandcitizenship by descent

Canadacitizenship by descent

Mexicodescent

Portugaldescent

Greecedescent

Hungarysimplified naturalization

Czechiadescent restoration

Croatiadescent

Romaniadescent / restoration

Lithuaniareinstatement

Latviaexile descendants

Austria§58c descendants

Slovakialiving-abroad certificate

Done for you

We orchestrate the whole thing.

A citizenship case can touch archives, notaries, apostille offices, translators, couriers, and consulates in three countries at once. You get one team and one plan. We run the rest.

One point of contact

You never chase an archive, a translator, or a consulate. Your case management team runs the board and you get the updates.

Every partner, coordinated

Genealogists, researchers, notaries, apostille offices, translators, couriers. One plan and one timeline, all coordinated for you.

Licensed professionals where required

When a case needs in-country counsel, we engage trusted licensed professionals and manage them on your behalf.

Stories

Citizenship, reclaimed.

Americans who traced their heritage back to Europe and came home with a second passport.

United States — Michael Rossi
New York, NY

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Straight answers about eligibility, timelines, and what done-for-you really means.

Unique to each individual and family

Visa-free travel across dozens of countriesFreedom to live and work across the EUA base in Latin AmericaAccess to universities in Europe and beyondAccess to national healthcare systemsA path to retire on the MediterraneanInvestment and business opportunities abroadRoom to invest in property overseas

New tax-residency options to exploreA base for working remotely, from Asia to the AmericasA foothold on two continentsOptions for your children's futureReclaiming your family's heritageBelonging to where your story beganRoots to pass to the next generationKeeping your current citizenship, in most cases

Start today

Unlock the second passport hidden in your family tree.

Book a consultation to assess your eligibility and get a personalized roadmap to a second citizenship in Europe and beyond. Then we handle the process end to end, from records to passport.

Expert assessment of your unique eligibility
30-minute consultation with a citizenship specialist
Personalized document checklist, timeline, and next steps
Your fully customized global citizenship roadmap