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Guides to Croatian citizenship by descent

Who qualifies, and how the process works.

New Zealand8 min read

Croatian citizenship from New Zealand: the six-month timing trap

Some of the documents an application needs are only accepted while they are recent, and Croatian consular visits to New Zealand are announced one at a time. How to sequence the whole thing so you do not pay for the same certificate twice.

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Dalmatian ancestry9 min read

New Zealand's gum digger families: Croatian citizenship after the 2020 change

A few thousand men left a short stretch of the Dalmatian coast for the kauri gumfields of Northland. For most of the century that followed their great-grandchildren were one generation too far away to apply. That stopped being true on 1 January 2020.

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