{"id":65413,"date":"2021-08-17T06:36:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawoffice.org.il\/?p=65413"},"modified":"2024-02-12T10:31:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T08:31:28","slug":"german-citizenship-for-descendants-of-german-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/script_transfer_new.mowfns.ap-southeast-2.wpstaqhosting.com\/en\/german-citizenship-for-descendants-of-german-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"German Citizenship for Descendants of German Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><b>Background\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">German Jews<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were once among the most successful and numerous Jewish communities in all of Europe. This changed with the rise of the Nazi party in the 1930s and the Holocaust. Today, one of the ways Germany is seeking to address this issue is through its naturalization policy for descendants of German Jews.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many reasons why you may wish to acquire German citizenship. Among other things, a European passport would allow you to travel, live, and work freely anywhere in the European Union. If you are the descendent of a German Jew (or another victim of the Nazi regime) who fled their country of birth either to escape the holocaust or its aftermath, you may be eligible for a German passport. In the past few years, Germany has made significant corrections to its laws in order to make this process simpler for the descendants of holocaust survivors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/faSJgRiZtqE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><b>Information about German citizenship for descendants of German Jews<\/b><\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Germany, due to recent amendments to the Nationality Act, all descendants of Jewish German citizens who left the country to escape the Nazi regime or in the aftermath of World War II, are eligible to apply for German citizenship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are eligible to reclaim German citizenship even if you or your parents never had German citizenship &#8211; as long as you are directly descended from a German national whose citizenship was denied by the Nazi regime for religious, political, or racial reasons. (Previously, the law discriminated by the gender of the parent but this discrimination has been corrected now and it is no longer pertinent whether your ancestor is male or female).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on <a href=\"https:\/\/script_transfer_new.mowfns.ap-southeast-2.wpstaqhosting.com\/en\/israelis-eligible-for-german-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eligibility<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/script_transfer_new.mowfns.ap-southeast-2.wpstaqhosting.com\/en\/applying-for-german-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">application<\/a>, see the relevant articles.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65414 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/script_transfer_new.mowfns.ap-southeast-2.wpstaqhosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-16-at-22.02.06-300x282.png\" alt=\"German Citizenship for Descendants of German Jews\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/script_transfer_new.mowfns.ap-southeast-2.wpstaqhosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-16-at-22.02.06-300x282.png 300w, https:\/\/script_transfer_new.mowfns.ap-southeast-2.wpstaqhosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-16-at-22.02.06.png 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><b>Reasons to use legal experts<\/b><\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An application for citizenship requires filling out a significant amount of paperwork in German, and errors in your application could lead to a denial of your request which is very difficult and costly to appeal. Therefore, we recommend that you use the services of experienced attorneys to make sure that your application has the best chances of approval.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our law office specializes in immigration law and works with many descendants of German citizens in their naturalization application.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><b>Contact us\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you seek German citizenship on the basis of these new laws and regulations, please contact us. Advocate Michael Decker works on this issue, and he would be happy to help you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[author_and_contact_info]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background\u00a0 German Jews were once among the most successful and numerous Jewish communities in all of Europe. This changed with the rise of the Nazi party in the 1930s and the Holocaust. Today, one of the ways Germany is seeking to address this issue is through its naturalization policy for descendants of German Jews.\u00a0 There&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[597],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-german-citizenship"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>German Citizenship for Descendants of German Jews - Legal Assistance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How to obtain a German citizenship for descendants of German Jews? 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