David, I am curious, did your son secure citizenship as a result of your citizenship or did he have to go through the same process as you did? Thanks.
*Phil Lopes* On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:45 AM, David Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > I too had a stumbling block - my father had changed his last name from > Pereira to Perry. That would be a "break" in the paper trail and was > sufficient to deny my application. Fortunately, I had a document from 1938 > when my father legally changed his name using his two brothers as > witnesses. The San Francisco Consulate was a bit reluctant to accept > anything that old and in fact they had rejected my father's birth > certificate from the Azores also acquired in 1938 so I had to get a more > recent copy. Anyway, they sent everything off to Lisbon and someone in > Lisbon apparently was happy with the name change document and approved my > application. > > My son had applied before I did in New York and was told he had to learn > the language, etc., etc. I applied in San Francisco with no such > requirement - just submit the papers and pay the money. After I received > my citizenship, I sent my paper trail along with my Lisbon acceptance to my > son in New York who was then able to sail through with no additional > requirements and he received his citizenship in just a few weeks. > > David > > > On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 10:28 AM, Phil Lopes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I secured dual citizenship several years ago and it took 5+ years but the > offer for second generation citizenship was new at the time. It seems the > process now is less time consuming. My major stumbling block was that since > I had lived in three countries, I had to secure police reports from each > which was impossible. The block was only overcome by the Portuguese Consul > General in San Francisco securing a waiver of this requirement for me. > Phil Lopes > > On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 1:51:44 PM UTC-7, Colleen Wright wrote: > > Has anyone done this and how difficult of a process was getting Dual > citizenship? > > Obrigado, > > Colleen Wright > > -- > 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/E_FxJBlCA4I/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > > > -- > 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/E_FxJBlCA4I/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
