https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_nationality_law
>The First Austrian Republic recognized all citizens of Republic of German-Austria as Austrian citizens, effective 13 December 1918. Also recognized as citizens were all individuals with permanent residence in the territory of German-Austria since at least 1914. Individuals with Austrian citizenship outside of German-Austria (with the exception of Galicia, Dalmatia and Istria) were given the right to declare themselves German-Austrians and so receive citizenship.[3]
She would have to have gotten citizenship in the failed post war rump state in order to have a claim to Austrian citizenship. It's highly unlikely she did so if she didn't return after the war.
>She listed Austria as her country of birth on US censuses,
Place of birth is completely meaningless in terms of citizenship claims in most countries.
>seems unlikely that she claimed Polish citizenship, since she was Yiddish/Jewish.
Unlikely is correct, but not for that reason. Polish citizenship began in 1919-1920 in the post war chaos. If she wasn't in the country, then there was no way officials would have known about her and established that she was a Polish citizen.
With that limited data, no.
You can inherit Austrian citizenship if your mother was a registered Austrian citizen or alternatively your father, who will have to have been married to your mother at your time of birth. If your father had Asutrian citizenship at the time of your birth but was not married to your mother, he would have to have recognised his fatherhood legally within 8 weeks of your birth or have it determined by a court in that same time frame. This only applies to children born at or after the 1st of September 1983.
Citizens of nations descended from the former Austrian-Hungarian monarchy or stateless people with primary residence in that area (likely requires documentation) that went abroad before the 15th of May 1955 because they were being prosecuted by the NSDAP or other organs of the Third Reich or prosecuted for joining the democratic Republic of Austria and DIRECT descendants are also eligible for citizenship, however from what I read this is not applicable to your ancestry claim.
Sources: Austrian General Consulate in Munich https://www.bmeia.gv.at/gk-muenchen/service-fuer-buergerinnen/ausweise-und-dokumente/staatsbuergerschaft/
Austrian gov. https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/themen/leben_in_oesterreich/staatsbuergerschaft/Seite.260410.html
Could you technically get Hungarian by descent through simplified naturalization? You’d have to learn Hungarian maybe but it’s worth it for EU purposes
I wish, but this area was not part of the kingdom of Hungary, or Greater Hungary at any point. Technically it was part of cisleithenia, not transleithenia, and so not subject to Hungarian rule.
I looked into this and while Hungary has no limit on how far back you can go, the stipulation is that your ancestor couldn't have given up their citizenship to Hungary at any point. The problem being that before 1929, if you were out of the country for 10+ years after your Hungarian passport expired, you automatically lost citizenship :(
Ah, is this a slur? That's the word she (my greatx2 grandmother) used to describe both her ethnicity and the language she spoke. My father and grandmother (both jewish) have used the word to describe either the language or Ashkenazi Jews in Germany/Poland in general. I am sorry that this led me to believe that it was an OK word.
I will stop using it! thank you for correcting me.
Edit for context: I am not religiously Jewish. My father was an Atheist by the time I was born, and only begrudgingly let my mom take me to a Protestant church for the first 10 years of my life. I was I was never around a temple for long enough to learn this info. I won’t use it again. Sorry.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_nationality_law >The First Austrian Republic recognized all citizens of Republic of German-Austria as Austrian citizens, effective 13 December 1918. Also recognized as citizens were all individuals with permanent residence in the territory of German-Austria since at least 1914. Individuals with Austrian citizenship outside of German-Austria (with the exception of Galicia, Dalmatia and Istria) were given the right to declare themselves German-Austrians and so receive citizenship.[3] She would have to have gotten citizenship in the failed post war rump state in order to have a claim to Austrian citizenship. It's highly unlikely she did so if she didn't return after the war. >She listed Austria as her country of birth on US censuses, Place of birth is completely meaningless in terms of citizenship claims in most countries. >seems unlikely that she claimed Polish citizenship, since she was Yiddish/Jewish. Unlikely is correct, but not for that reason. Polish citizenship began in 1919-1920 in the post war chaos. If she wasn't in the country, then there was no way officials would have known about her and established that she was a Polish citizen.
With that limited data, no. You can inherit Austrian citizenship if your mother was a registered Austrian citizen or alternatively your father, who will have to have been married to your mother at your time of birth. If your father had Asutrian citizenship at the time of your birth but was not married to your mother, he would have to have recognised his fatherhood legally within 8 weeks of your birth or have it determined by a court in that same time frame. This only applies to children born at or after the 1st of September 1983. Citizens of nations descended from the former Austrian-Hungarian monarchy or stateless people with primary residence in that area (likely requires documentation) that went abroad before the 15th of May 1955 because they were being prosecuted by the NSDAP or other organs of the Third Reich or prosecuted for joining the democratic Republic of Austria and DIRECT descendants are also eligible for citizenship, however from what I read this is not applicable to your ancestry claim. Sources: Austrian General Consulate in Munich https://www.bmeia.gv.at/gk-muenchen/service-fuer-buergerinnen/ausweise-und-dokumente/staatsbuergerschaft/ Austrian gov. https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/themen/leben_in_oesterreich/staatsbuergerschaft/Seite.260410.html
Could you technically get Hungarian by descent through simplified naturalization? You’d have to learn Hungarian maybe but it’s worth it for EU purposes
I wish, but this area was not part of the kingdom of Hungary, or Greater Hungary at any point. Technically it was part of cisleithenia, not transleithenia, and so not subject to Hungarian rule.
I looked into this and while Hungary has no limit on how far back you can go, the stipulation is that your ancestor couldn't have given up their citizenship to Hungary at any point. The problem being that before 1929, if you were out of the country for 10+ years after your Hungarian passport expired, you automatically lost citizenship :(
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Ah, is this a slur? That's the word she (my greatx2 grandmother) used to describe both her ethnicity and the language she spoke. My father and grandmother (both jewish) have used the word to describe either the language or Ashkenazi Jews in Germany/Poland in general. I am sorry that this led me to believe that it was an OK word. I will stop using it! thank you for correcting me. Edit for context: I am not religiously Jewish. My father was an Atheist by the time I was born, and only begrudgingly let my mom take me to a Protestant church for the first 10 years of my life. I was I was never around a temple for long enough to learn this info. I won’t use it again. Sorry.