Does the line hold? Citizenship by descent, one verdict at a time.
Whether your grandparent's line reaches you under Ireland's, Canada's, Germany's, Italy's or Poland's rule, where it breaks, and the order that proves it. Dated, sourced, never paid by the application.
Irish citizenship by association is a power to waive naturalisation conditions, not a descent route: what section 16 says, who decides, and why it rarely helps.
How to apply for Irish citizenship by descent: the order to assemble the chain in, what the Foreign Births Register fee pays for, and what lengthens the wait.
A grandparent born in Northern Ireland holds an Irish line: section 6 says the island of Ireland, and section 7(2) says their silence does not break yours.
Irish citizenship through a great-grandparent is usually no. It turns on one date: your parent's entry in the Foreign Births Register against your birth.
The Foreign Births Register decides when Irish citizenship begins, not whether you have it: the entry date, the 1986 proviso, and who the timing excludes.
Irish citizenship by descent from a grandparent born in Ireland: the line reaches you, and one register entry decides whether it reaches your children.
A citizenship by descent cut-off date can predate the state itself — 1861 Italy, 1871 Germany, 1920 Poland, 1922 Ireland, 1947 Canada. What each one decides.
Born outside marriage or adopted: where a citizenship by descent claim still holds, where it needs a declaration, and where an adoption ends the line instead.
Where a grandmother lost citizenship by marriage the line ends at the wedding, not at a birth. The rule in Germany, Italy, Britain and Poland, each dated.
Citizenship by descent through a mother breaks at 1948 in Italy, 1975 in Germany, 1983 in Britain. Two of the three have a repair route; one needs a court.
If a parent naturalised before you were born, a German, Italian, Canadian or Polish citizenship by descent claim usually ends there. Ireland is the exception.
Can you lose your citizenship before you are born? The seven breaks that end a descent claim in Ireland, Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK, dated.
What countries allow dual citizenship with the US? All six a descent claim runs through, each rule dated, and the German one that changed on 27 June 2024.
There is no worldwide limit on how many citizenships you can have, only each country's rule about its own. Ireland, Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland and the US.
Registration, proof, certificate, recognition, confirmation: what a certificate of citizenship by descent is called in each country, and who issues it.