The missing middle layer
Passport Heritage exists because the citizenship-by-descent space has a structural gap. On one side: free forum posts, contradictory advice, and hours of confused Googling. On the other: immigration agencies charging $10,000–$15,000 for processes that many people can handle themselves — if they have the right information.
We're the layer in between. We organize what's knowable — which documents you need, who issues them, how much they cost, what the pitfalls are — into clear, actionable guidance that respects your intelligence and your budget.
We don't mystify the process to justify a markup. We don't pretend everything is simple when it isn't. And we don't blur the line between information and legal advice — we are not lawyers, and nothing we sell is legal advice. When your case needs one, we tell you plainly instead of selling you something else.
Information should be organized, not gatekept
The legal rules for citizenship by descent are public. The problem isn't access — it's organization. We structure public information into usable, case-specific guidance.
Most people can do more than agencies assume
Ordering a birth certificate, writing a request letter, getting an apostille — these are tasks, not mysteries. We give you the exact instructions. You're more capable than the industry suggests.
Honest boundaries build real trust
We'll tell you when you need a lawyer. We'll tell you when DIY is risky. We won't upsell you on services you don't need, and we won't pretend our guidance is legal advice.
The same expensive mistakes, made over and over, by people who could have avoided them
This started by watching someone close to me try to claim Italian citizenship through a great-grandparent — and watching how much of the difficulty had nothing to do with the law.
The information existed. It was just scattered across forums, outdated blog posts, Facebook groups giving contradictory advice, and consulate pages that hadn't been touched in years. The cost of that scattering was real: the wrong type of birth certificate ordered twice, a translation paid for that wasn't certified in the way the consulate actually required, months lost to a records request that could have gone to a county court for a fraction of the price.
None of those were hard problems. They were all knowable in advance. They just weren't written down anywhere in one place, in order, by someone with no incentive to keep the process looking mysterious.
So we went and read the forums properly — thousands of posts from people who had actually finished — alongside the statutes, the consulate pages and the archive catalogues. Then we wrote down what they collectively knew, dated it, and cited it. That is what this site is.
We publish the eligibility rules, the disqualifiers and the real reported timelines for free, because knowing whether you qualify shouldn't cost anything. What we charge for is the execution layer: the specific offices, the letters, the sequence. And when the honest answer is “this case needs a lawyer,” we say that instead of selling you something.
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