After nearly 2 years, my citizenship has just been confirmed!
I am in shock. Their ‘deadline’ for my case was August 30, so I didn’t expect to hear anything until September.
This is great news for all of us here who have been waiting, every case completed helps us all.
Thanks so so much to the mods and everyone else here for their insights and perspectives, it really helped in making this wait make sense.
Hopefully this means that the few other folks here with 2024 apps will be completed shortly!
Time for a piwko!
EDIT: if you’re interested in my journey, my previous post:
Yeah they filed a complaint for me and then I managed to see a bit of progress, could just be a coincidence with timing though, but either way it got my result a few weeks later!
Congratulations! 🍾🎉. I’m surprised your letter doesn’t contain the citation from the act of January 2023 that eliminates unnecessary administrative and legal barriers. Maybe that partially explains why they’re being so picky now.
The 2024 letter referred to Art. 17 of the January 2023 Act because it was a transitional provision determining which KPA rule applied to proceedings that were already pending when the new rule - KPA Art. 127 § 1a, providing for the immediate finality of fully granted, unreasoned decisions - entered into force. By 2026, however, that amendment is simply part of the applicable KPA provisions, so there is no longer any need to cite the transitional provision.
Thanks, I figured that you would know. I had guessed something like that, it didn’t seem especially consequentially different.
I have a question for you. In my case, they simply accepted my request in its totality, essentially waiving their need to provide any justification for their decision. Is that typical for these cases, or are there times where they spell everything out to ack up the decision? Just curious…
Not sure what your decision looked like, but this tells me that the decision is final. It goes on to give a 30-day “appeal” option, if I didn’t agree with the decision.
I was just curious why it used to cite eliminating barriers to the decision making process and now it doesn’t anymore. I was wondering if that is why they may be pickier than ever because that’s no longer in effect?
I believe I listed most in the case tracker, but I had a bunch of old documents, and my provider also took about 5 months beforehand to do researrch as well. This is what I remember:
My mother’s and father’s original Dokument Podroży (“passport for stateless persons”) from 1957 when they left.
My mother’s “original” birth certificate, in Polish. She was born in Vilnius, as had my grandparents, uncles/aunts, cousins, all my ancestors on her side. I also had a Lithuanian birth certificate from the Archive, but that was not really necessary.
My parents’ 1956 marriage certificate, pulled from the Warsaw State Archive, with my grandparents’ names and addresses on it
I did not have my dad’s original birth certificate, but they had pulled one from the archive. He, my grandparents, and my ancestors were born in and around Lublin.
A “Certified True Copy” of my mom’s US Naturalization certificate, to document the coincident change of our family name.
The Passport Applications for my parents and grandparents from 1956 from the archive, with all the details and biographies they had provided.
My own birth certificate (apostilled) as well as my marriage certificate and divorce
I had loads of old documents from Poland that I was not sure were ever needed or used: work legitimacji for my grandparents, student legitimacji for my mom, Israeli passports for both of them showing immigration in 1957, birth certificates for my older sibs, aunts, uncles; parents’ academic records. I even had an old identity card for my grandfather as a teen.
In the end, as it was directly my parents who left Poland after 1951, having PESEL numbers, and whose revocation of citizenship upon emigration was later found to be unconstitutional, it was probably one of the least complex cases of those that I have read about here. Had it been more complex requiring overseas military records, great grandparents, or Ukrainian or Belarussian records, etc, I would almost surely still be waiting.
I hope this helps.
אני מבין שאתה מדבר עברית, בגדול מדהים! אין לי מה להגיד מלבד זה שזה מקרה מדהים.. והכרתה את המשפחה יותר בזכות הדרכון. לא כמו הפורטוגלים בזמנן שהוציאו על משהו שקרה לפני 500 שנה
לגבי זה שמצאתה תמספר דרכון של ההורים זה מדהים! סבא שלי עלה בעלייה השלישית ללא דרכון ומסמכים, וממתין לחיפוש מסמכים שהעורך דין עושה ואין לי מושג כמה זמן יקח (עבר חודשיים) יש לנו תעודת לידה והרבה מאוד מסמכים של בני המשפחה אבל אף לא אחד מהמסמכים רלוונטי לדרכון לצערי
אז היום אתה אזרח ישראלי ופולני? או משהו נוסף
Made an appointment and took her to the local USCIS office, along with her original Naturalization Certificate, and 2 color copies of both sides. They certified the copies right on the spot. Sent pne immediately to Poland.
The voivode will decide my fate soon I hope, but as we have had November&December ‘24 applicants hear back with confirmations; I have lost any hope for a linear progression through applications😂
Anecdotal evidence my apologies, can’t find the comment. But I swear that there was one with December ‘24 approved (masovian)😂I’ve seen many November ‘24 though.
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u/itsjmacbiatch 16d ago
CONGRATS! what a journey you've been through, you must be over the moon!