Client story
How the situation developed
Where they started
In Olga’s family the Hungarian roots were not shared by everyone: the ancestors were on her side, while her husband Andrey and their two children had no connection to Hungary. When EU passports came up, a natural question arose: could Olga alone give status to the whole family.
Why the standard route did not work
The answer depends on two things. First, proving Olga’s ancestry itself: building an unbroken line of descent from the Hungarian ancestor down to her, with no gaps in the documents. Second, correctly extending the resulting basis to her husband and children through the mechanisms the procedure provides.
What BRIDGES had to solve
The mistake here is to assume that one spouse’s ancestry automatically gives status to everyone - or, conversely, that without ancestry of his own the husband rules the family out. The truth is in between: the basis comes from Olga but, with the right strategy, covers the whole family.
Why a standard answer would not do
The family came to BRIDGES understanding that the task was not simply to confirm the wife’s ancestry but to make sure that everyone - Olga, Andrey and the children - obtained EU passports on that basis.
The Hungarian ancestry was only mine, and we did not understand whether it would help my husband and children. Sergey and his team first proved my ancestry - assembling the whole line from the ancestor down to me - and then took the entire family through on that basis. In the end everyone received EU passports: me, my husband and the children. Through me alone, the whole family.
