I just started my paper work for my Polish citizenship so that I can get an EU passport and freely work in the EU. Luckily my mom is around and is doing the forms for me because she has a lot of the required information. It could take around a year though unless they find that I already have citizenship and a PESEL ID number. My mom doesn't remember if they had registered me for citizenship when I was born because I was born outside of Poland and we moved to Canada before my first birthday.
Another pro is that your kids can subsequently apply for citizenship at some point if they want it. As the history of your families citizenship gets broken it becomes more difficult to get that citizenship back.
As my mom was digging up papers this week she found a Polish passport in a box. She was really surprised because it expired in 2012 and she didn't even remember applying for a Polish passport in 2002.
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