About Citizenship Descent Checker
Triage your eligibility for citizenship by descent through Irish, Italian, Polish, or German ancestors: which generation qualifies, and where the rules changed in 2025.
What is on this site
One question, "canadian citizenship by descent", answered with a checker that works on the page with no account, 4 guides on the questions around it, a data table you can cite (the figures and their method), and the sources every figure rests on.
- Canadian citizenship by descent after Bill C-3: The first-generation limit is removed in some situations. The second generation born abroad can now qualify where the Canadian parent spent 1,095 days in Canada.
- Irish citizenship by descent: the Foreign Births Register: How Ireland's Foreign Births Register works: who qualifies through a grandparent, the EUR 278 adult fee, the documents, and why registration timing decides the next line.
- Italian citizenship by descent: what the 2025 decree changed: Decree-Law 36/2025, converted by Law 74/2025, limited Italian jure sanguinis to a parent or grandparent born in Italy. Who is still eligible and which claims survive.
- German citizenship by declaration: StAG 5 and the restitution routes: Germany's StAG 5 declaration restores citizenship to descendants excluded by pre-1975 gender rules, free, until August 2031. How it fits with Art. 116(2) and StAG 15.
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Citizenship Descent Checker is an independent information site operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. It is not affiliated with any government, consulate, or ministry named on this site, and nothing here is legal or immigration advice. Descent rules change, as Italy's 2025 reform showed, and individual claims turn on documents and dates no checker can verify: confirm any eligibility verdict with the relevant consulate or a citizenship lawyer before spending money on records or applications.