Preliminary triage · Not legal advice
Polish Citizenship Test — Detailed Eligibility Assessment
Up to ten steps covering descent, emigration, origin locations, three generations of family data, pre-1951 legal gates, document inventory, and family precedent. Produces a band result plus a document-readiness score separate from legal eligibility. This interactive test requires JavaScript; the outline below describes what it evaluates.
The ten steps
- Polish Descent & Nationality
- Emigration Details
- Origin Locations
- Your Polish Ancestor
- The Next Generation
- About Yourself
- Deep Eligibility Gates
- Family Documents
- Family Precedent
- Your Goals & Contact Info
Result bands
The full test returns one of five bands: Strong starting position, Worth a consultation, Likely needs archive search, Needs legal review, or Outside our practice. None of these are final legal determinations — final eligibility always requires human legal review.
Pre-1951 legal gates the test evaluates
- Descent through a woman before 19 January 1951
- Foreign naturalization before 1951, especially if the next generation was a minor
- Foreign military service or public office before 1951 (Article 11 loss risk)
- Ancestor from partition-era territory now in Ukraine, Belarus, or Lithuania
- Formal renunciation of Polish citizenship
These factors do not automatically mean rejection — they route your case to legal review or archive research.
Documents and readiness
The full citizenship test uses your family document inventory to calculate a readiness score from 0 to 100, separate from the legal eligibility band. See the documents guide and grandparents guide for what each record proves.