The Minister of Interior and Administration agreed to the arguments raised by the team of our Law Firm in an appeal against the decision of the Voivode issued in the case of one of our Clients. After examining the appeal, the Minister shared our position that all women born under the Act of January 20, 1920 on the citizenship of the Polish State (i.e. before January 19, 1933), who acquired dual citizenship at the moment of birth, did not lose their Polish citizenship, despite having citizenship of another country.
Thus, there was a breakthrough in the interpretation of the provisions of the 1920 Act regarding the loss of Polish citizenship by administrative bodies – it was recognized that only the acquisition of foreign citizenship subsequent to the acquisition of Polish citizenship resulted in the loss of Polish citizenship. This opens the way to applying for confirmation of Polish citizenship by persons who derive it from women (marital daughters of Polish citizens) born before 1933. So far, public administration bodies assumed that such women lost their Polish citizenship upon reaching the age of majority, when the principle of uniform family citizenship ceased to apply to them.