Client story
Client Story
Where they started
The Mikhail family wanted to formalize Bulgarian roots for everyone at once: himself, his wife, three children, and his mother - six people, three generations, from his seventy-three-year-old mother to his twenty-year-old student son. Each had their own basis, but the root was common - the Bulgarian line in the family.
Why the standard route did not work
The first temptation in such cases is for each person to apply individually. It seems simpler. In reality, it is the most expensive and risky approach: the same ancestor documents are ordered multiple times, the lineage is proven anew for each person, and inconsistencies easily arise - when relatives have the same data recorded or proven differently, raising questions for the Ministry of Justice.
What BRIDGES had to solve
But one family has one genealogy. Bulgarian descent, proven through a common ancestral root, applies to all descendants through direct lines. It is more logical to prove the roots once and carefully distribute them across the family branches than to prove the same thing six times, risking discrepancies.
Why a standard answer would not do
A particular subtlety involved the twenty-year-old student - already an adult: he needed to be properly included in the joint application without being lost. The family contacted BRIDGES, understanding that six parallel cases made less sense than one cohesive family file, where the common ancestral root benefits the entire family.
There are six of us - myself, my wife, three children, and my mother - three generations. Initially, we thought each would apply separately, but Anna advised against it: it would cost three times more and we could get confused about what was proven for whom. She compiled one family file for the entire family from our common Bulgarian root, carefully distributed it across our lines, and did not lose even our adult student son. We submitted everyone together, without running around and without inconsistencies. That is how it should be - as a family.
