Post by jesspeepers on May 9, 2019 0:54:12 GMT -5
Greetings, Fellow Future Luxembourgers!
I'm hoping that someone can help me relax a little bit.
I applied for Phase #1 for "le certificat relatif à l aïeul luxembourgeois" back in...yes...December 2018. The process for just phase #1 was already challenging enough as I had found out about the Luxembourgish Reclamation of Nationality in January 2018. I began requesting the vital records of family members like crazy. Let me give you a family lineage to follow.
*Great-Great Grandfather (b. 1851 in Reimich, LU - d. 1920 in Milwaukee, WI)
*Great-Great Grandmother (b. 1853 in Redange, LU - d. 1926 in Milwaukee, WI)
They both got married in Wisconsin in the 1880's.
- Great Grandfather (b. 1891 in Milwaukee, WI)
- Grandmother (b. 1930 in Sheboygen, WI)
- Father (b. 1962 in White Plains, NY)
- Myself (b. 1996 in Pittsburgh, PA)
In early 2018, I was requesting birth certificates (from 3 different states) to those of us in the family line that are alive. I also asked the Vital Records Office in Madison, WI to send me the death certificates of my 3 ancestors as that took some time. There were a few issues with requesting certain marriage and birth records as Wisconsin apparently didn't keep the best of records during the late 1800's to early 1900's. At the time as well, I sent these vital records at the time to a local Alliance Française as they had the best language translators in my hometown. I was sadly very wrong to find that this translation process would take until May 2018 to December 2018 as the certified translator that I initially hired had moved away and didn't alert me of this transfer. So, for many months my vital records sat in a protected envelope on a shelf for several months until I had enough and went to the Alliance Française building and demanded to get this done ASAP. Eventually, all of my documents had been translated, and I gathered everything together in a lovely USPS International Express Mail Package sent 23 December 2018. (cutting it real close, I know!) I come to find out after months of stress and so much money spent of translating that I could've just sent the vital records on their own to the Nationality Office (Service de l'Indigénat) – Ministry of Justice (Ministère de la Justice) in Luxembourg City. Little did I know that I only needed to translate my documents in Phase #2.
I find out in mid February that my package had been found in the European mail exchanging systems in Zürich after being lost for a little over a month.
It's then delivered by mid February. However, I'm still a little panicked to this date as I have heard nothing from the Nationality Office (Service de l'Indigénat) as far as my application is concerned. I emailed them back in February to see if they had received my package and explaining everything to them. I spoke with a Joe Forthoffer from the Nationality Office, and he didn't ask for very much information which made me worry a little more.
It is now May 2019, and I spoke with someone on the line in regards to processing time of my application, and he said to reach them back in August 2019. I probably should've double checked with that speaker in regards to actually receiving and will be processing my application along with my documents soon. I emailed as many people from the Directory of the Nationality Office (Service de l'Indigénat) – Ministry of Justice (Ministère de la Justice) to see if I can get an answer. My phone plan sucks with international calling, so I'm trying to limit those calls for only absolutely necessary calls.
I'm hoping that any of you all on this forum can make me feel a little more at ease with this process. I didn't know about this process until the year applications for Phase #1 were due.
I'm honestly hoping that the Nationality Office will empathize with me and feel a little sorry to hopefully go through my certified vital records that I could obtain (with their unnecessary certified French translations) and approve me for an ancestry certificate. I will probably have to wait until the end of the year to receive much of any word on my Phase #1 application to see if I will have received the certificate.
I hope I can at least start looking at times in 2020 for a Luxembourg getaway.
I'm super excited that the nationality laws had changed and opened up for us descendants of Luxembourgers. My family is full of European descent, and we even have the languages still spoken in our families: French, Dutch, German, Polish, etc. But, the Luxembourg ancestry law gives me the opportunity to obtain an EU passport without having to move to Europe and naturalize there after many, many years. None of my other ancestral lines would allow me to claim nationality by blood since the generations are too long and extensive for consideration. It would be an incredible opportunity to have an EU passport. I cry every time I leave Europe as I feel that I leave a part of myself behind. I'm very grateful and honored to come from a long line of people that fought like hell to give me the life that I have in coming to the USA, but I know they would be even more proud if I could have the option to back now. Quite an extensive project for a young 22 year old trying to complete undergrad before heading off to grad school soon.
I guess we'll see what happens from here! Hope you all are getting your certificates and passports soon enough! I hope to be joining you all soon enough!
JP
I'm hoping that someone can help me relax a little bit.
I applied for Phase #1 for "le certificat relatif à l aïeul luxembourgeois" back in...yes...December 2018. The process for just phase #1 was already challenging enough as I had found out about the Luxembourgish Reclamation of Nationality in January 2018. I began requesting the vital records of family members like crazy. Let me give you a family lineage to follow.
*Great-Great Grandfather (b. 1851 in Reimich, LU - d. 1920 in Milwaukee, WI)
*Great-Great Grandmother (b. 1853 in Redange, LU - d. 1926 in Milwaukee, WI)
They both got married in Wisconsin in the 1880's.
- Great Grandfather (b. 1891 in Milwaukee, WI)
- Grandmother (b. 1930 in Sheboygen, WI)
- Father (b. 1962 in White Plains, NY)
- Myself (b. 1996 in Pittsburgh, PA)
In early 2018, I was requesting birth certificates (from 3 different states) to those of us in the family line that are alive. I also asked the Vital Records Office in Madison, WI to send me the death certificates of my 3 ancestors as that took some time. There were a few issues with requesting certain marriage and birth records as Wisconsin apparently didn't keep the best of records during the late 1800's to early 1900's. At the time as well, I sent these vital records at the time to a local Alliance Française as they had the best language translators in my hometown. I was sadly very wrong to find that this translation process would take until May 2018 to December 2018 as the certified translator that I initially hired had moved away and didn't alert me of this transfer. So, for many months my vital records sat in a protected envelope on a shelf for several months until I had enough and went to the Alliance Française building and demanded to get this done ASAP. Eventually, all of my documents had been translated, and I gathered everything together in a lovely USPS International Express Mail Package sent 23 December 2018. (cutting it real close, I know!) I come to find out after months of stress and so much money spent of translating that I could've just sent the vital records on their own to the Nationality Office (Service de l'Indigénat) – Ministry of Justice (Ministère de la Justice) in Luxembourg City. Little did I know that I only needed to translate my documents in Phase #2.
I find out in mid February that my package had been found in the European mail exchanging systems in Zürich after being lost for a little over a month.
It's then delivered by mid February. However, I'm still a little panicked to this date as I have heard nothing from the Nationality Office (Service de l'Indigénat) as far as my application is concerned. I emailed them back in February to see if they had received my package and explaining everything to them. I spoke with a Joe Forthoffer from the Nationality Office, and he didn't ask for very much information which made me worry a little more. It is now May 2019, and I spoke with someone on the line in regards to processing time of my application, and he said to reach them back in August 2019. I probably should've double checked with that speaker in regards to actually receiving and will be processing my application along with my documents soon. I emailed as many people from the Directory of the Nationality Office (Service de l'Indigénat) – Ministry of Justice (Ministère de la Justice) to see if I can get an answer. My phone plan sucks with international calling, so I'm trying to limit those calls for only absolutely necessary calls.
I'm hoping that any of you all on this forum can make me feel a little more at ease with this process. I didn't know about this process until the year applications for Phase #1 were due.
I'm honestly hoping that the Nationality Office will empathize with me and feel a little sorry to hopefully go through my certified vital records that I could obtain (with their unnecessary certified French translations) and approve me for an ancestry certificate. I will probably have to wait until the end of the year to receive much of any word on my Phase #1 application to see if I will have received the certificate. I hope I can at least start looking at times in 2020 for a Luxembourg getaway.
I'm super excited that the nationality laws had changed and opened up for us descendants of Luxembourgers. My family is full of European descent, and we even have the languages still spoken in our families: French, Dutch, German, Polish, etc. But, the Luxembourg ancestry law gives me the opportunity to obtain an EU passport without having to move to Europe and naturalize there after many, many years. None of my other ancestral lines would allow me to claim nationality by blood since the generations are too long and extensive for consideration. It would be an incredible opportunity to have an EU passport. I cry every time I leave Europe as I feel that I leave a part of myself behind. I'm very grateful and honored to come from a long line of people that fought like hell to give me the life that I have in coming to the USA, but I know they would be even more proud if I could have the option to back now. Quite an extensive project for a young 22 year old trying to complete undergrad before heading off to grad school soon. I guess we'll see what happens from here! Hope you all are getting your certificates and passports soon enough! I hope to be joining you all soon enough!
JP
