Poland offers one of the most generous citizenship by descent programs in the world, with no generational limit for those who can prove Polish ancestry. Unlike many other countries that restrict descent to grandparents, Polish law allows great-grandchildren and beyond to claim citizenship if they can document their Polish lineage back to ancestors who lived in Poland after 1920.

The Polish citizenship process is based on the principle of jus sanguinis (right of blood), meaning that if your ancestors were Polish citizens, you inherit that citizenship regardless of where you were born. This makes Polish citizenship particularly attractive to the estimated 20 million people of Polish descent living outside Poland, including over 8 million Polish-Americans.

Once obtained, Polish citizenship provides immediate access to live, work, and study anywhere in the 27-country European Union, plus visa-free travel to 188 destinations worldwide. Polish citizens enjoy one of the world's strongest passports, ranking 6th globally for travel freedom, and can pass this valuable citizenship to their children indefinitely.