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
Revocation of Bulgarian citizenship after fraudulent marriage Are the Bulgarian laws too severe? Is the Bulgarian penal code fair? Are the conditions for revocation of Bulgarian citizenship too harsh? How easy is for the government to revoke the Bulgarian citizenship of a naturalized foreigner? The answer to these questions isContinue Reading
How can the children and the spouse of a foreigner with Bulgarian Golden Visa* obtain permanent residence permit (PR) * Golden Visa is a permanent residence permit that is obtained on basis of investment (art. 25, par. 6, 7, 8 of the Foreigners Law) The Bulgarian Golden Visa is oneContinue Reading
The end of democracy and the Israeli’s hunt for second citizenship We remember very well the times when the people of Hong Kong went on the streets. On the “silent front” at that time, the Hongkongers were trying to get hold of their ticket to freedom – Bulgarian citizenship. NowContinue Reading
EU may re-introduce visa-regime with certain countries? The EU will most likely re-introduce visa regime with certain countries in the near future. More specifically, the countries in the Western Balkans, which allowed citizens of countries with visa regime with the EU to enter and then try to pass the EUContinue Reading
Bulgarian nationality in foreign passport (or birth certificate) We often receive questions like the one below: In my mother’s Ukrainian passport*, it is written that she is of Bulgarian nationality. Am eligible to obtain Bulgarian citizenship by origin? * many times “Bulgarian nationality” is mentioned in the birth certificate orContinue Reading
Bulgarian citizenship by investment – still possible in (for the lucky ones) Special conditions until If you have been following the investment citizenship marketplace in the past couple of years, you are probably thinking that it is all over. You may be thinking that after the demise of all EUContinue Reading
Bulgarian, Bulgarian citizen or Bulgarian origin. Who is which? How is Bulgarian origin proven? Who are the persons of Bulgarian origin? Proving of Bulgarian origin; is it possible through the court? We will try to answer these two questions today. Before continuing further, we recommend that you reading our articleContinue Reading
Investment citizenship customers are suing the Bulgarian State for damages After the Bulgarian citizenship by investment program was halted in 2022, many thought that the Bulgarian Parliament has done a proper job. But this may prove not to be the case. It is now the Bulgarian Court to determine whetherContinue Reading