I have written many posts about the “right of descent” immigration privilege available to those who have ancestry from specific countries, enabling such persons to qualify for a fast track to citizenship in another country.
Someone who used their right of descent privilege to obtain citizenship in an EU country notes something important – the age and stage of life you do this can have important ramifications.
Specifically, this individual applied for and received a right of descent citizenship when young and before getting married and having a family.
But this individual’s older siblings did not do this until they were older, married and already had kids. Because the right of descent citizenship applies only to the individual applicant, and not their offspring or spouse, the individual received citizenship in the EU but none of the children or offspring do.
However – and this is the important part – the younger individual, above, received EU citizenship when still young. As a consequence, when this person began to have a family and kids, all of the kids were now born to a dual US/EU citizen – and were also granted citizenship in the U.S. (because they were born there) and in the EU (because their parent was an EU citizen).
Bottom Line
Thus, for those who have a right-of-descent immigration privilege, it makes sense to apply for this as soon as you can, before you have a family and children, so that your childrenw will also then have a right of descent immigration privilege.