Are Bulgarian-issued documents, such as a birth certificate, always required for the naturalisation procedure? We are frequently asked this question by clients of Bulgarian descent, mainly from Turkey, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Is it absolutely necessary to locate their ancestors’ birth certificates to obtain Bulgarian citizenship by origin?Continue Reading
Americans go crazy to secure second citizenship in the EU President Donald Trump is determined to make America great again. We have no doubt that he will succeed. But the fight to restore the full glory of the most powerful country in the world comes with some sacrifices. What concernsContinue Reading
You ask, we answer – once again about who is “Bulgarian” and is this concept “ethnic” Today we are responding to a potential client who asks an extremely well-argumented legal question. The essence of the question lies in how exactly the term “Bulgarian” should be interpreted within the meaning ofContinue Reading
Problems with Bulgarian citizenship for children of mixed marriages Naturalisation or registration? Today we will look at a serious problem in the Bulgarian legislation. We will examine the case when a child has parents – a Bulgarian citizen and a foreigner. The child does not acquire Bulgarian citizenship immediately afterContinue Reading
The door on which Martin was afraid to knock Martin, a German man in his early 50s, was standing in front of the old door in the picturesque town of Bansko. Nestled at the foot of the Pirin mountain in Bulgaria, Bansko was now a strange mixture of old andContinue Reading
Who is considered to be Bulgarian citizen as per the Constitution? The matter of citizenship is the building block of every society. If there is no clear rule as to who is a citizen, then there is no society at all. In Bulgaria, there seems to be a serious fundamentalContinue Reading
What if your Bulgarian citizenship application seems to be stalled? Today we will discuss the situation of many Bulgarian citizenship applicants. What happens is that the citizenship applicant submits his documents, goes through the citizenship interview and then everything goes to a dead end. The Bulgarian citizenship application is stalled.Continue Reading
Amendments of the Bulgarian Citizenship Law After the amendments of the citizenship law of 2021, the procedures to obtain Bulgarian citizenship by origin (see here and here) were significantly changed. Many customers who have applied for Bulgarian citizenship by origin prior to 2021 were left at the mercy of theContinue Reading
Have we benefited from the “evolution” of the “Law of Bulgarian subjection” from 1940 to the current “Bulgarian citizenship Law” from 1999 or not ? Bulgarian citizenship. The privileges and harms of citizenship. Foreigners and Bulgarian citizenship. We will find out all this below. Let’s first clarify the concept ofContinue Reading