Romanian citizenship for Russians: how to obtain

Many people who wish to emigrate to the EU are usually looking for easy and convenient ways to become a legal resident of one of these European countries. Romanian citizenship for residents of Russia can be acquired by blood origin, which significantly simplifies this procedure. A Romanian passport is issued in a short period of time - the main thing is to collect the necessary documentation. If you know a few nuances and your own rights when collecting certificates and securities, then you can legally obtain a Romanian passport without losing your Russian documents.

What does Romanian citizenship give?

Living in Europe gives many advantages to a Russian. These include the full right to purchase real estate without additional financial fees for taxes. A person will be able to move freely across 100 countries without a visa.

Many people are interested in what Romanian citizenship gives a person and why it is so in demand. A Russian who has received a Romanian passport automatically acquires many advantages that this country provides to its citizens. Positive aspects of registering a Romanian bulletin for a Russian:

This territory is officially included in the EU list, so Romanians can safely work, live and travel throughout Europe;
the country is located in the European south-eastern part, which is developing in the economic sphere;
With a passport of a Romanian citizen, a Russian can freely cross the borders of the European Union;
A Russian can find a prestigious job and education in the EU without obtaining a visa.

The country joined the EU in 2007 and became a full member in 2014. The Romanian passport is in no way inferior to other European documents in its capabilities and advantages. The copyright holder will be able to receive the same bonuses as people who have passports from other European countries.

Importance for Russians

Romanian citizenship is convenient for Russians because it is a good option for immigration to Europe from Russia. Romanian buletin gives a person freedom to:

obtaining accommodation;
the opportunity to get an official job;
study or holiday in the EU.

A Russian has the right to travel to any corner of Europe without issuing Schengen visas. Additional advantages:

simplified documentation for those who want to receive a bulletin with an ID card from a given country;
Immigration is quite flexible in terms of financial costs compared to obtaining a visa from other European countries.

Romanian citizenship forum: who can you trust?

Future clients of our company EU IMMIGRATION SERVICE are interested in who made Romanian citizenship for Russians, forums on this topic. A Romanian passport is the easiest tool to enter the EU countries. Of course, the issue is not the standard process of obtaining a Romanian passport in 7-10 years, but the existence of a special immigration program that speeds up the procedure to 12-14 months.

This is quite a difficult task, especially for people who are inexperienced in legal terms. Many companies offer their services in obtaining citizenship, but people are also looking for other sources of information. There is a well-known type of Internet platform that allows you to get additional information - this is a forum about Romanian citizenship.

It is on such sites on the Internet that people can get acquainted with the details of completing the procedure for obtaining citizenship. In theory, on forums they share their practical experience, give advice, etc.

However, nowadays forums rarely maintain a neutral position and remain independent platforms. Before you get caught up in the whirlpool of black PR and scammers, we want to tell you about the real state of affairs on the forums.

Romanian citizenship: forum and manipulation of public opinion

Due to the demand for a Romanian passport among Russians, almost all existing Russian-language forums about Romanian citizenship belong to certain individuals. Thus, Romanian citizenship for Russians is being vigorously discussed at the Vinsky forum. The Odessa forum devotes a lot of space on its pages to Romanian citizenship.

Site owners are directly interested in having the information they need discussed on forums:

Angry, negative reviews were written about competing companies.
They left only positive comments about the companies of the forum owners or partner companies.

Nowadays it is almost impossible to find forums that adhere to neutrality. In all existing sites, the owners agree to engage in black PR or even fraud for a fee. In order for the forum to remain active, you need to pay for a domain, hosting, the activities of front persons, and so on. Often on such forums there are no real people at all: the illusion of communication is created deliberately.

Ways to cheat on forums

All forums can be divided into three categories.

The first method is when a person buys a platform for pennies, a website builder for a forum, creates many accounts and is completely independently active on the forum. The idea is to write bad reviews and slander competitors who promote the same services. This is usually done by people who also offer Romanian citizenship services.

On such a site, the illusion of the presence of a large number of people is actively created, but in reality this is not the case. The forum presents every sentence written about citizenship, the activities of a company that promises a Romanian passport, in the right connotation: negative or positive. This activity is actively promoted by the owner of the forum himself in order to deceive clients, rather intrusively promoting services that are controversial by all standards.

If you read negative or good reviews about a company and want to evaluate the veracity of what was written and the integrity of the company, read our article.

In the second case, interested people contact the administrator of a very live forum and ask to remove negative information about a specific company or take care of promoting any services. The administrator tactfully replies that the forum is a platform where anyone can write whatever they want. But for a fee you can remove or add the necessary information. Thus, the site turns into a battleground for competitors, where ordinary users have no say in principle.

The third method is when the site is created completely from scratch. The owners do not care about filtering spam, slandering other companies or negatively discussing competitors, and sometimes, on the contrary, support such actions. Their main goal: to impose their own services on users by all means. And although the forum looks alive, all the people there are potential victims of advertising, and any attempts to change something are punishable by a ban (users are simply blocked).

What to do and how to recognize reliable information?

You can still find accurate information about Romanian citizenship through the forum, but you should carefully check everything you read:

If one company is presented in an unfavorable light, but another is immediately recommended, this is black PR.
When many threads and messages have been created about a specific company, but there is not a single negative statement about it on the entire forum, this is paid advertising.
If they intrusively try to recommend some services to you and assure you that there are no disadvantages, then this is also advertising, and perhaps even the activity of scammers.

Treat any information with some skepticism: there are always pros and cons, and the complete absence of one thing is a clear reason to think about it. Do not live in illusions and try to understand how the market works, otherwise the chances of being deceived or trusting an unreliable company will increase significantly.

You can find a lot of information on the Internet: most of it warns against scammers and helps you find quality companies with a wide range of services. If you don't want to be scammed, you may be interested in our other article about scammers. It is dedicated to those who obtained Romanian citizenship for Russians and to forums on this topic.

We will be happy to answer all your questions by phone or online via the feedback form on our website page eu-immigrationservice.com. On it you can find out in more detail all the details of obtaining Romanian citizenship. Here are the reviews of our successful clients who found us through the forums, took advantage of the Romanian program and received a Romanian passport.

Who can obtain Romanian citizenship

If a citizen of the Russian Federation was born or lived on the territory of a given European country before 1940, then he can rightfully apply for a passport. This person's descendants can also become official full residents of a given EU territory if they wish.

Since the 40s, the Romanian territory was deprived of these land holdings, and the inhabitants were resettled throughout the territory of the USSR. In fact, this means that any citizen of the former Soviet Union can apply for restoration of legal Romanian citizenship.

According to the theory of “Greater Romania,” which existed until 1940, the country’s territory included Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Today, these geographical places belong to Moldova and Ukraine (including part of the Chernivtsi and Odessa regions).

Conditions for obtaining citizenship

A Russian can obtain a passport through reunification with his homeland if he is a descendant of those persons who were forced to leave Romanian territory during the First or Second World War. If your ancestors were Romanians, then it is officially possible for a Russian to obtain full Romanian citizenship. In this case, the Russian will only need to submit documentation for naturalization.

The Romanian government, before issuing a bulletin with an ID card to a person, will first analyze his files from the archives. This is required for the authorities to make sure that the Russian who submitted the documents is not a fraudster. For more efficient work, forensic experts are sometimes brought in.

List of documents for obtaining Romanian citizenship

If a Russian has decided to obtain European documents and emigrate, then the first stage in this case has been completed if all the documentation has been collected. The next step required to obtain European citizenship in the southeastern country of Romania is checking the papers through which you can obtain a passport by hereditary law.

To apply for legal Romanian citizenship you need:

passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation;
birth certificate;
international passport;
personal certificate of marriage or divorce (if available);
SOP of the spouse (if there is a marriage);
birth certificates of children (minors automatically receive documents with their parent);
Parents' SOPs;
parents' marriage or divorce certificate.

To obtain a Romanian passport for a Russian, you must additionally provide documentation according to the list, without which the procedure at the consulate cannot take place. These papers include:

an official written application for a passport;
certificate of good conduct in Russia;
a certificate of no criminal record in the EU country where the documents are being submitted;
personal declaration for children.

How to avoid falling for the tricks of scammers about Romanian citizenship?

As you can see, it is very difficult to identify scammers, and the more complex the algorithms used by serious companies in order to earn your trust, the more elegant and skillful the scammers’ schemes work, but there are only a few nuances that cannot be hidden under the guise of “tinsel.”

Age of the telephone number - The “old” contact telephone number cannot be hidden from dissatisfied customers; if it is in working order, then you will very easily find all the information you are interested in about it, to do this, just enter it into the search engine and click on the “search” button. As a rule, scammers change problematic phone numbers because they are overwhelmed with calls and write negative reviews indicating the phone contact numbers.

I won’t tell you how to check the age of the phone number indicated as a contact on the site. Many people in every city have the opportunity to contact their friends who are involved in the communications industry. If not, ask to see a contract indicating the date of registration of the phone number before signing the contract or paying an advance payment.

Financial stability of the company: - As a rule, if a company has not one type of activity, but several, then it will not “dirty” its hands and use fraudulent schemes in relation to obtaining Romanian citizenship. You understand: image, reputation, risk of property, etc..

It is very simple to check such a company for the presence of types of activities: to do this, just enter the contact number into the search engine and click on the “search” button. If this contact is involved in several other projects, then it would not be a bad idea to study them too, in order to make a difficult decision. .You can, of course, order an extract from the Federal Tax Service on the types of activities, but it is more reliable to check the contact number...

Positive Reviews - You can write 20 of them to yourself every day! I won’t continue further, it’s clear to everyone….

Negative reviews - They may be real, or they may turn out to be the machinations of “competitors,” so before drawing conclusions, look carefully at who writes them and how they argue; if the review contains accusatory information that does not contain specifics and facts, everything immediately becomes clear. If the review is succinct and the person who wrote it does not hide behind “avatars”, but also lays out all the evidence (agreement, documents confirming the transfer of funds, etc.) - Then draw conclusions and make decisions!

When they call intrusively, they praise themselves and scold their competitors - Any self-respecting company is stable in the market, thanks to stability and reputation, due to recommendations from grateful clients. A serious company does not need to call an entire “directory” to inform the addressee about negative information regarding competitors and positive information about itself. If they call you annoyingly and say that everyone will “throw you away”, but we don’t - draw your own conclusions! Someone wants to take your money!

I won’t talk about why you should contact us for a service, but if you are interested in the safe and effective process of obtaining Romanian citizenship, a Romanian passport, or need additional free consultation, please call:

+7 WhatsApp/Viber/Telegram Email: [email protected] We are always in touch!

Who is interested in how we will work further, after the “cataclysms” that occurred in the work of the ANC at the beginning of 2021 - more about this in the following section:

How will we work? What changes are coming in 2020? Can I count on Romanian citizenship in 2021?

You will find answers to these and other questions in the following section: “How to obtain Romanian citizenship in 2021? Game by new rules!

Would you like to go through the entire procedure from submitting documents to obtaining a European Union passport yourself? Details in the section: “Romanian citizenship on your own. From collecting documents to receiving an EU passport.” .

Stages of obtaining citizenship

When there is a blood relationship with ancestors who lived or are living in the territory of the EU community, then the Russian has every right to restore the relationship and move to Romania as a full citizen. People who intend to obtain official Romanian citizenship due to consanguinity with residents of this country must collect a list of documents and then take them to the consulate. The stages of obtaining can become simpler or more complicated depending on what specific papers need to be collected.

If the ancestors were Romanians, then the Russian must first take to the embassy, along with the main package, a document, a death certificate of his relatives who lived on Romanian territory before 1940. It also does not matter that the relatives were born in the 19th century in Romania and died, for example, in Bukovina or Moldova.

If you plan to obtain citizenship by genealogy, you must provide documentation of your grandfather or grandmother:

birth certificate;
SOB (certificate of divorce proceedings, if available).

If a person is related to the third generation (great-grandfather or great-grandmother), then you can present the following additional documents to the consulate:

birth certificate on one line;
SOB (divorce certificate), if available.

The list of documents and the completed application form must be submitted in the original. Before obtaining full Romanian citizenship, applicants have their personal documentation certified by contacting notary services. This is necessary, since only originals can be submitted to the embassy together with photocopies translated into Romanian and stamps.

What is the reason for denial of Romanian citizenship?

False documents.

Now the first priority is submitting documents based on false Romanian roots. The basis for obtaining citizenship under Article 11 of Romanian citizenship is the presence of Romanian roots, namely grandparents, great-grandparents, great-grandparents, sometimes parents who were born on Romanian territory before June 28, 1940. The bulk of the so-called roots are documents from the Chernivtsi region, the southern part of the Odessa region and almost the entire territory of the Republic of Moldova.

Confirming documents about Romanian roots are birth or death certificates of direct relatives up to the 3rd generation. Of course, there are many cases where Romanian roots are missing, the above documents are falsified by an intermediary in order to apply for Romanian citizenship. Such dubious documents are identified upon request to the archives of Ukraine and Moldova. Intermediaries submit such documents in the hope that Bucharest will not be able to verify legitimacy. If false documents are detected, employees of the ANC (National Agency for Citizenship) refer such cases to the police (this is the procedure) to initiate criminal proceedings, and of course issue an order to refuse to obtain Romanian citizenship . Recently, there has been a large number of refusals, which the lawyers who are suing the National Citizenship Agency do not talk about. Also, many intermediaries do not talk about this. Now the trend is to tell the client the following: If the documents are accepted, then this is 100% of citizenship . It's a lie!

2. Ignorance of the Romanian language.

Even after an order has been issued to obtain Romanian citizenship, there is a possibility that you will not receive citizenship due to ignorance of the Romanian language . However, knowing only the oath of Romania does not guarantee citizenship. If previously only the National Agency for Citizenship issued a certificate of ignorance of the language when taking the oath, now many consulates have begun to issue an official document of ignorance of the Romanian language . the termination of the Romanian order comes into force . If after this you still have a desire to obtain citizenship, then after 6 months you have the right to apply for citizenship again and wait again for 1.5-2 years (data for 2019).

If you have documents and you know what documents were submitted, that's good, but if you do not know what documents were submitted by the person who helped you submit your dossier, then you can safely say that all the work you did was in vain and your The path to obtaining Romanian citizenship ends. Consider that you have wasted 1.5-2 years of time and money in vain. In addition, you can also get a criminal case for falsifying documents in the EU.

3. Problems with law.

When submitting documents, you must provide a clean police clearance certificate without any marks. Even if the case was dismissed, in any case this should not be on the certificate. Based on a certificate of good conduct with a note, they can ask for a court decision and on the basis of this decision, 98% are denied Romanian citizenship under the pretext: “I was convicted abroad - I am not worthy to receive Romanian citizenship .

4. Irresponsibility of the intermediary.

Bucharest was asked to provide certain documents in addition to the dossier, but your assistant forgot about it or thought that it would go through without it. Failure to submit documents on time will result in refusal. Usually they give 4 months for this.

We had a case when, when submitting documents, the client did not provide a certificate of good conduct. When asked from Bucharest to provide such a document, the intermediary said that everything was in order and there was no need to send a certificate of good conduct to Romania. As a result, two months ago this person was refused Romanian citizenship due to the fact that he did not provide documents to Bucharest. This person contacted our company after receiving a refusal, asking for help in such a difficult situation.

There is certainly a way out. After receiving the refusal, our lawyers, within 15 days from the date of receipt of the notification, protested the decision to refuse in court, we will try to help this client, and we are confident that we will win this court, and the Citizenship Agency will issue a new order to assign citizenship. This process can last 10-18 months. Ignorance of information or irresponsibility leads to refusal to obtain Romanian citizenship.

Bucharest is trying by any means possible to stop the flow of false documents for obtaining citizenship. In 2021, they asked to provide additional, re- Romanian roots in the original . The documents were taken away and not returned. Many people who had questionable documents were turned away.

There are cases where intermediaries who, in addition, re-sent other dubious documents in the original to Bucharest (but the applicant himself does not know about this), and perhaps there are already people who have received citizenship using such documents.

The procedure for obtaining and registering citizenship

You need to submit documentation to the Bucharest Ministry of Justice and ACN. Submission nuances to ACN:

It is not necessary to know the Romanian language, it is enough to speak your native Russian language;
You can even apply for the purpose of purchasing housing in another part of the European Union;
The processing time for the request is reduced, and approval from the consulate will have to wait longer
availability of a foreign passport with entry approval (visa availability);
the amount of money for housing, food and travel;
After submitting the dosar, an individual account code is issued, which can be used to track the status of the application.

The procedure for approving documentation at local consulates is characterized by a strict attitude towards those Russians who do not know the Romanian language. There is a high risk of the application being disapproved, and the period for consideration of the case increases.

Time frames and costs for obtaining Romanian citizenship

A Russian who has submitted documents to the consulate or ACN is often interested in: how long does it take to wait for the application to be reviewed and the cost of this procedure. If documentation has been submitted for the purchase of a bulletin based on consanguinity, then you should wait until the commission checks the submitter. In this case, the waiting period for obtaining official Romanian citizenship is at least 1 year.

A Russian citizen applying for real Romanian citizenship can track the progress of the case through his personal code so as not to miss the moment when the consulate’s decision was issued. Delays in issuing citizenship are usually associated with waiting for responses from certain institutions, vacations or other reasons for employee absence from work.

You can obtain official Romanian citizenship through our company, which successfully processes official documents, collects the necessary papers, certificates, and notarized copies. The package of documents is submitted in the presence of a lawyer, and at all stages of registration the person receives the necessary assistance, even while learning the Romanian language. Thus, citizenship will comply with all government regulations of the EU country.

“Romanian citizenship for only 500 euros (700, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500)”

Very often such advertisements come across in Ukraine due to the confusion that has arisen: political, documentary, etc.

What to believe:

The price is indicated only for legal services, and as practice shows, only for the process of submitting documents. You will do all translations and certifications yourself. One can only guess how many mistakes you can make, especially those that may occur already during the serve in Bucharest, but there are quite a lot of such cases.
The price is indicated specifically for “package formation”, but not for delivery support, etc.
There are a lot of other formats where they first take some small money from you, which you usually fall for, and then they either charge you for every step, or simply abandon you halfway. And you can’t even imagine what to do then.
The price is indicated for the hard version of photocopies, where you will then find neither the ends (well, for example, you did not take the oath the first time), nor the “lawyer” who filed your case. Well, go for it! But (I've written about this many times) what awaits you in the long term is anyone's guess. And not just on coffee grounds.

In other words, to make it as clear as possible.

People come to you and offer to buy a Mercedes E320 for 300 thousand rubles (5,000 euros), while you clearly understand that its cost is at least 2,000,000 rubles.

Don’t even tell me anything, because your brain will immediately recreate the picture of how 3 Mexicans were killed in this Mercedes, or that a young lady suffocated in it because of unrequited love and lay in it for a week until the neighbors from the house across the street found her, because it started to smell like something unusual and nasty.

Either this Mercedes was in a terrible accident and now it is glued together from particles and is about to really fall apart.

Perhaps this Mercedes was wrested from a poor businessman who owed money to the bandits, his index finger was already cut off and now these bandits just need to throw off this Mercedes, and most likely the super cheap Mercedes will then be returned to the owner through the court.

Or, what is most likely, this car is on credit, they stopped paying for it and now they are trying to push it away, and then the bank will still take it back in court.

RESULT: something is wrong here and you will still lose money.

Question: why, in the example with the Mercedes, do you clearly understand that you will lose money , but on such a sensitive and important issue as EU citizenship, you ignore it ?

Although. If you drive stolen or “hidden” Mercedes, then this information is not for you.

“Nothing hurts more than being humiliated and losing money.” The film "Revolver", 2008, directed by Guy Ritchie

Answers to popular questions

People who plan to get a passport are often concerned about standard questions related to how many times they need to come to the country to apply for and receive a passport, and whether their relatives will be able to receive the document. Another frequently asked question is whether it is possible to obtain Romanian citizenship for large investments in the economy. You cannot get a passport for an investment investment. If you invest more than 1,000,000 euros, the naturalization period is reduced from only 8 to 4 years.

Is it possible to refuse Romanian citizenship?

Romania often issues official passports to Russian residents, and cases of refusal are quite rare. A refusal may occur when a person has violated any law or tried to forge documents. Most likely, the embassy may refuse to take the oath due to lack of knowledge of the Romanian language. If, nevertheless, a person is refused, he can again try to submit a package of documentation or an appeal with the help of legal services.

Will my spouse and children receive citizenship?

A husband or wife does not have the same right as the submitter to receive a bulletin with an ID. However, they can apply for a residence permit under the “family reunification” program. After 5 years, you can apply for a passport. Minor children become Romanian citizens automatically when the applicant receives their passport.

Do I need to renounce my first citizenship?

Before obtaining real Romanian citizenship, a citizen should know information about maintaining the status of a Russian citizen. A Russian may not refuse it, but have a double one, since this is not prohibited by the laws of both countries. In addition, this EU country does not disclose to other governments the issuance of personal bulletins.

How many times do you need to visit Romania?

If a person submits documentation with legal assistance, then he needs to personally visit the country 3 times. Independent registration does not always go smoothly and you may need to visit Romanian territory 3 to 5 times. It is also worth considering that an additional visit is required to issue an ID card or bulletin.

Preparation for the main procedure for obtaining citizenship

Only a limited number of Russians have any idea how to obtain Romanian citizenship, so let's talk about the initial steps in this event. The first thing that is required of the applicant is to prepare for the main procedure.

We all understand that registration is a lengthy process and the candidate will have to do a lot of work to obtain official status. As a result, it is necessary to highlight a number of conditions under which a foreigner has the right to apply for citizenship of this state:

the applicant has lived in the country for eight years or more;
the applicant has a marital relationship with a Romanian citizen and has lived with him for at least five years;
the candidate is loyal and friendly towards the Romanian people and politics, provides all possible support and does not take any illegal actions;
the foreigner has reached the age of 18 and has sufficient funds to live in the country. All sources of income must be verified and legal;
the applicant must know the national language and appreciate Romanian cultural values to such an extent that living in the state would be comfortable for him. Knowledge of the national anthem and the Constitution is mandatory.

It should be noted that for investors the requirements are somewhat relaxed. For example, if a citizen of another state has invested about 500 thousand euros in the country’s economy, the time frame for obtaining citizenship is halved. The same privileges apply to persons who have gained fame at the world level. A few words should be said about the fact that only ethnic Romanians are exempt from having to take national language exams.