Sam, Did not keep close track of costs but not counting expenses of trip to Colombia to try to get police report, I would guess costs were about $500 which was for translation costs, language test fees, and processing fees. I did not use a lawyer.
This is my answer to another inquiry about the language exam: Hard to assess difficulty of exam. At the time I spoke my best Brazilian Portuguese over 25 yrs ago I took a standardized test and scored just below an educated native speaker. On the test for citizenship which I took last November I received a score of 85 which barely got me into the top category, a muito bom. The test took almost three hours and included written, reading and listening comprehension, and conversing with the test monitor. When one signs up for the language test (and pay your money) you will receive a sample test which I found very useful. You do not have to show connection to all grandparents. The Portuguese government accepted my connection to my paternal grandfather only who was born on the mainland. However, interestingly my Portuguese citizenship card lists my parents who were born in US. I do not know if one's children can become citizens if you get it through this process. Hope this helps. *Phil Lopes* On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:58 AM, aportugee via Azores Genealogy < [email protected]> wrote: > Phil Lopes; Since you have recently obtained your Portuguese > citizenship, a few questions, if you don’t mind. > > > 1. What did the entire process cost you? > 2. As, I believe E asked, how complicated was the language test? Was > it entirely written or also spoken? > 3. Do all 4 of your grandparents have to have been born in > Portugal/Azores? > 4. Will this citizenship pass on to your children? (or make it > easier/possible for them to also obtain Portuguese citizenship? > > > Thanks in advance for your time, Sam in NC > > Sent from Windows Mail > > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/azores/FWSQYrNoLok/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
