How long did your Latvian dual citizenship approval take?
I’ve been trying to compare my own timeline with what others have gone through, because the waiting is driving me a bit crazy at this point. For those who applied for Latvian dual citizenship by descent, how long did your approval actually take from the moment everything was submitted? I’m seeing very mixed stories online — some say a few months, others nearly a year — and now I’m not sure what’s “normal.” Would love to hear how it played out for you in real life, especially if you had any hiccups with documents or archive checks.
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When I went through the process last year, the timing really varied depending on which documents needed deeper verification, especially anything involving older family records. For me it was roughly seven months from submission to the final confirmation letter, but honestly it could’ve gone either way because one of my archive extracts took forever to be validated. I kept checking updates through latvian passport since they had a pretty clear breakdown of what each stage usually involves, but even then the actual pace felt unpredictable. In my case, the longest part wasn’t the ministry review but the back-and-forth about one spelling inconsistency in my great-grandfather’s birth record. If your paperwork came from different localities or has gaps, you might get extra questions, which adds time. I’d say try not to panic too early — they really do move, just not always in a perfectly linear way.