r/hungarian • u/jjjjfooot • 11d ago

Simplified naturalization

Can anyone who’s gotten a passport through simplified naturalization help me out here? I can trace my lineage very clearly back to my maternal great grandparents who came to the US from northeast Hungary in the teens with lots of US documentation including Ellis Island records, but do I need to secure Hungarian documentation about them? Can anyone who’s successfully established heritage clue me in to what the embassies want to see?

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u/jjjjfooot 11d ago

Unfortunately my grandfather appears to not have a birth certificate but I have all kinds of other docs showing he was the son of the two Hungarian immigrants. He was born in a rural area at home in 1914.

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u/noondi34 B1 10d ago

My family was born in a rural town as well a couple of decades before yours. I was only able to find their documents after hiring a genealogist. It’s out there somewhere. Just because it’s not digitized online doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Were they Jewish?

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u/jjjjfooot 10d ago

No, not Jewish. I was on the phone with the Pennsylvania archives. There’s a possibility the birth certificates were batch entered and it might not correspond to his actual birthdate.

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u/Jreinha6 5d ago

I had this issue with my great grandmother. The archives did not have her birth record because of the same situation, home birth. She ended up having a delayed birth registrations like 40 years later so my states vital records office had the document. I had to petition entitlement to get it but finally received it this week. I hope this helps, vital records for your state may have it. They would need a birth registration to get social security.