Anyone else have word on their application?

Any request is based upon your traceable ancestor having lived and been born in LT before 1940 and then left after 15 June 1940 and March 1990 and you can prove this. Any other dates render your application a single citizenship application which means you MUST renounce your other citizenship. That is my understanding at this moment.
Good Luck to all who try.
Oh and smart move Moacir, in applying for you Passport at he same time as your citizenship.
Sekmes

Thank you for your excellent website.

My great grandparents immigrated to the US from Lithuania in the 1890′s. Their Ellis Island records, along with those of their brothers and sisters who immigrated, indicate that they immigrated from Russia, but indicate that they were all born in what is now Lithuania. Some records indicate that they are Lithuanian-Russian, some indicate German-Russian, etc. It is clear that they where born in what is now Lithuania, but they were evidently ethnic Germans, as they associated with the German and German-Lithuanian community in the US. I do know that my g-grandfather spoke Lithuanian for what it is worth.

To anyone’ knowledge, does ethnic origin within Lithuania determine whether one will be granted citizenship? I don’t know if my family names are common in Lithuania, they seem German/Polish although they are names I’ve seen from immigrants all throughout eastern europe.

Thanks for any input, Jim

Also, it’s not the Consulate that makes the final decision, so they can’t really dictate what they will or will not accept. They can just warn that certain things might run into trouble down the road.

The consulate in NYC seemed reluctant to accept documents of ITS without an Apostille attached to them and refused to do so. Fortunately, the documents I received from the Lithuanian Archives sufficiently proved citizenship prior to 1940 and departure after (my mother was born in Lithuania in 1942.

Another issue that we encountered, and one which we are still waiting to learn if it will ultimately be problematic, is the variations and westernizations of my mothers names. My grandfather’s last name is Jasinskas, and my mother’s last name on her birth certificate is Jasinskaite. When they settled in the west, as is the custom, my mother’s documents took on the last name of her father. Thus, she began using Jasinskas. However, there is no formal documentation of a change. To make matters more complicated, subsequent legal documents (my mother’s marriage license, and my birth certificate) show her second name from her Lithuanian birth certificate, Jurate, which she was always called by and thus began to use officially. Again, there is no official record of legal name change.

Hopefully, given all of the original documentation that I was able to provide, they will accept the proof of descent from my grandfather that I was able to provide. We just submitted at the beginning of May and I’m informed to expect a processing time well in excess of 6 months, and possible a year, before receiving a response.

In any case, I wanted to thank you for the wonderful gift you have provided by documenting your path for us.

Peace.

Thanks!