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I went through this a while back to get my Croatian citizenship. On paper, it is an easy process. I had to provide documentation proving my parents birth, their nationality and my birth. There was also a test that I had to pass in the Croatian language about our history, geography, political and judicial systems. It was mostly multiple choice and fill in the blanks.

However the process became complicated because my mother's parents were immigrants to Yugoslavia from Poland and Ukraine, and they never registered her birth there. My father came to Canada as a fugitive and officially renounced his citizenship there and declared political asylum in Canada. To make it even more complicated, he changed his name and age on his Canadian papers to better hide from the regime. And if that wasn't bad enough, he said his birth country was Croatia when in fact he was born in Bosnia (Croats in Bosnia are citizens of Croatia). It made proving his identity difficult, but fortunately someone at the consulate in Mississauga was helpful in arguing my case. I had to also request his landing papers from the office in Halifax.