Fastest route to citizenship wanted
Hi All! I am helping out my partner who would like to get German Citizenship through her paternal lineage.
Here are the facts
Great grandfather
Born in Bochum in 1901
Great grandmother
Born in Berlin in 1917
Grandfather
Birthplace unknown, thought to be Czechslovakia in October 1938.
Married in Westminster in 1962
Grandmother
Born in Surrey 1940
Married in Westminster in 1962
Father
Born in London 1971
We are unsure if the great-grandparents married in Germany and had to re-register it when they arrived to the UK in 1939, or if they first married in the UK. Only record of registration we have found so far is in Southampton in July 1939.
We believe her great-grandparents did not declare they had a child when arriving to the UK as refugees. The family story goes that her grandfather was born premature and thus was small, and hidden in a shoebox. We have no registration of his birth, and his first record of documentation is when he appears as a child/ dependant on the 1939 England and Wales register for the county of Southampton.
She is wanting to know how to go through this process as quickly as possible.
Thanks so much in advance!