Your questions about the Bulgarian Golden Visa answered Today, as we often do, we will answer some of the questions our readers and clients have asked us in the course of the past weeks. The questions below come from clients with Russian, South African and Chinese citizenship, willing to obtainContinue Reading
Bulgaria will more and more often grant citizenship to foreign athletes The “investment” in the young boxer Javier Ibanez proved to be even better than buying Bitcoin in its early days. As Bulgarian citizen, Javier Ibanez became the first Bulgarian to secure a medal in the Paris Olympic games. AndContinue Reading
The Law on the Bulgarian citizenship in English – now available on our website The Bulgarian citizenship law is the most important legal act that regulates the way Bulgarian citizenship can be acquired. It also regulates the legalities of losing citizenship. The Bulgarian citizenship law is legally binding only inContinue 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
New EU citizenship options are being targeted by affluent foreigners Now, when there is no more hardcore citizenship by investment in the EU, the international clients have to look elsewhere. But elsewhere, outside of the EU, it is just not good enough. Because in the end of the day, everybodyContinue 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
Renouncing citizenship to get Bulgarian passport. Legally required, but does it work in real life? Legal analysis of the norm of Art. 12, para. 1, item 6 of the Law on the Bulgarian Citizenship Is it necessary for a non-EU foreigner to renounce his citizenship before being naturalized in Bulgaria? After reading 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
EU citizenship – the most powerful freedom tool in the world There are many ranking methods used to determine the strength of the world’s passports. Most of these methods take in consideration the number of visa-free countries one can visit with particular passport. No matter what these ranking may show,Continue Reading