The importance of timing for Bulgarian citizenship application

How bad timing can jeopardise your Bulgarian citizenship by origin application Our today’s story is for a foreigner with proven Bulgarian origin, who can now easily miss the golden opportunity to become Bulgarian citizen. When we say that his Bulgarian origin is proven, we mean really proven – by theContinue Reading

EU disabled family member (brother, sister)

Residence permit for “other dependant family member” of an EU citizen More and more often, we have to assist citizens of the European Union who have close relatives in countries from outside the EU. Due to the heavy bureaucracy in the EU, European citizens cannot obtain residence permits for theirContinue Reading

AI and Bulgarian citizenship & residence permits

Bulgarian visa and even citizenship with the help of AI? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come into our lives. No doubt about that. And let’s face it – AI is a good thing for all of us. But will AI help foreigners obtain Bulgarian visa, residence permit and even citizenship? Let’sContinue Reading

Implied refusal - Bulgarian visa and citizenship

Implied (silent) refusal – the “kiss of death” or the administration’s revenge Implied refusal is one of the most unfair provisions in the Bulgarian legislation. An implied is when a citizen or a legal entity requests from an administrative authority to issue a certain individual administrative act. Such administrative actContinue Reading

Prolonging visa-free stay for marriage in Bulgaria

Dealing with allowed (visa C or visa-free) stay when marrying in Bulgaria Bulgarian girls are beautiful, but Bulgarian guys seem to be attracting a lot of attention too. During the past 12 months, we receive roughly an equal amount of enquiries by foreign males and females, willing to marry BulgariansContinue Reading

UK new visa rules 2024

United Kingdom is effectively banning its citizens from marrying foreigners The UK’s changes to the legal migration rules for family and work visas in 2024 is one of the most controversial acts of this century. What will basically happen is that the majority of the UK citizens will be deprivedContinue Reading

промени в закона за българското гражданство

What will change in the Bulgarian Citizenship Law in 2023-2024? Today, 21.09.2023, the Bulgarian Parliament voted several bills to amend and supplement the Bulgarian Citizenship Law (BCL). The MPs were surprisingly unanimous, which makes us think that the Bulgarian Citizenship Law changes will be adopted at the second reading. ButContinue Reading

Българска виза за рускини

More and more Bulgarians meet Russian women on the Internet Over the past few years we have seen a trend of more and more dating between Bulgarian men and Russian girls on the Internet. The war between Russia and Ukraine has certainly given an extra push to many Russian citizensContinue Reading