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Recognized Historical German Community - German Citizenship Question?

My family has recently been researching to see if we are eligible for EU citizenship. While researching German citizenship, we found this on wikipedia:

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German nationality is acquired by descent under one of the following conditions:

1. Member of recognized historical German community abroad (e.g. in the Balkans, Kazakhstan)

2. Also granted to children/grandchildren of those deprived of citizenship by the Nuremberg Laws

Link (scroll down to Germany's citizenship by descent section):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_of_the_Eu...

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I have not been able to find anything confirming or denying part 1, aside from my mother who believes that this is correct, although she cannot cite where she got that information. As such, I have two questions.

1. Could somebody please confirm or deny the part 1?

2. If part 1 is correct, could someone please link me to a list of these recognized historical German communities abroad?

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  • Brother Hesekiel
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
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    I was an attorney in Germany, but I practiced criminal law. Even I would have to spend substantial time to research this. Only a German immigration attorney would be able to pull these sources out of his head.

    You should know if you lived in the Balkan and grew up in a German community there, learned German from your German-speaking parents from day one, and so on. The burden of proof would be on you, the petitioner, anyway. So for practical reasons, unless you learned German as a first language because you basically lived in a German community abroad, like the Amish in Pennsylvania or Ohio, you can forget that one.

    Source(s): An immigrant from Europe, I live in the charming old mission town San Buenaventura and work as an attorney in Santa Barbara, California.
  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    get a german immigration lawyer to assist you

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