💰 What is the cost of assistance with obtaining citizenship by descent?
The cost of assistance with obtaining citizenship by descent is €2,000 per person. We offer a 50% discount for each additional family member applying for citizenship by descent together with you.
This fee does not include the cost of genealogical research required to locate the necessary documents, which depends on the complexity of the case and typically ranges between €700 and €1,200.
📜 What is the cost of genealogical research?
The cost of genealogical research depends on your request—how deep you want us to go—as well as the region(s) where your ancestors lived.
The cost increases if there were multiple migrations or if the search must be conducted in several archives.
The average cost is around €1,500 per family line (surname).
❓ What if you don’t find anything?
We can never know for certain whether your ancestors lived in a particular town—even if you’re confident about it—and we can’t guarantee in advance what exactly we will find. For example, births were not always registered before the mid-20th century, and your ancestor’s birth might have been recorded in a different location from where they lived.
However, our free preliminary check helps rule out the possibility of finding nothing at all—in such cases, we simply do not take on the project or we offer alternative research directions.
Before starting work, we always discuss the expected scope of information, and if the outcome is significantly less than expected, we provide a partial refund.
🛂 What if we apply for citizenship by descent but get rejected?
Such cases are extremely rare because, before filing, we offer a video consultation with an immigration lawyer who works closely with our company. The lawyer will review your documents, including the archival records we’ve found, and evaluate your case.
If the lawyer determines that your chances of success are high, we proceed with the application.
However, immigration laws are changing rapidly, and we cannot fully predict what may happen in a month or six months.
For this reason, we also offer a partial refund in the unlikely event that your application is rejected.
📝 Do we sign a contract with you?
Yes, of course. We offer to sign an official contract governed by Finnish law, as our company is registered in Finland.
All terms and guarantees are clearly outlined in the agreement.
🧬 I want to know my roots, but I don’t know much. Is it possible to search in this case?
Search is always possible. When the source information is very limited, the search becomes more complex, but there are different ways to proceed even with minimal known data.
Sometimes, in particularly difficult cases—when even the names of the parents are unknown (for example, in the case of adopted children)—we recommend using DNA genealogy as well.
However, if you know at least the surname, name, and approximate years of your grandparent’s life, this data is already enough to start the search.
🗃️ My ancestors were not famous people. How can information about them be stored in archives? What can I find about them?
The idea that archives hold detailed information only about famous people is a common misconception.
The success of the search in documents—say, from the 19th century—is determined not by the fame or social status of the people in question, but by the preservation of documents in a particular region.
In the archives, you can find a wide range of personal records from the 19th and 20th centuries: student files, party records, court documents, work records, and more.
Many of them contain photographs (or verbal descriptions in earlier passports), autobiographies, information on family, education, religion, residence, and even military service.
There are also house books, censuses, election records, and address directories.
Each case is individual—some yield more information, some less. Sometimes it’s possible to fully reconstruct an ancestor’s life. Often we discover unexpected facts, and sometimes we find that family legends are not accurate.
🧾 There is a family legend in my family, and I want to confirm it…
Family legends are fascinating—but often unreliable. They may contain a grain of truth, but in our experience, 98% of them turn out to be completely erroneous or significantly distorted.
That’s okay. You don’t need to rely on them entirely for your genealogical search—reality is often more surprising than any legend.
If you have a family legend and would like to check its accuracy, our experts will evaluate its historical plausibility during your individual search, and if there’s a chance it may be true, we’ll try to confirm it with documentation.
✡️ Are you only engaged in Jewish genealogical searches?
Our main specialization is Jewish genealogical research in Eastern Europe (modern Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia).
However, if you’re interested in tracing non-Jewish roots, we can help with that as well.