u/spasticpat

No current loans, catching up on some bills and could use the assistance before payday.

I have a current loan that I’m set to pay back the other half ($410) this Friday, 7/31. Need one extra due to some expenses that came up this week. Will pay back $300 on 8/12 payday. I have a history on here and have never been late, rarely take concurrent loans but unfortunately needed this week.

I know there've been several posts on this but this is the one hangup I currently have on submitting everything to my provider to start the process. I submitted a request for no service to Vetrecs in early June. When I check the status it just says 'Awaiting Processing' and when I try calling the number on their site and try to speak to a customer service rep it just hangs up on me.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to get this process moving faster or get through to someone? I'm 99.9% sure my gr. grandfather didn't serve in WWII as he was in his late 40s and I've not been able to find anything regarding him serving, have pictures of him at home throughout the 40s. I just need someone to look at my request. I've also tried faxing them with a request for update and no response there either, not that I expected one.

Should I submit another request or is that just bogging down the system? Thank you in advance for assistance.

I just had a quick question. I'm working on getting everything submitted to my provider and they're saying that my kids need to go through the full process as well. My kids, born under wedlock to me, are 2 and 6. Does my citizenship (if confirmed) pass on to them or would they need to go through the full wait as well? Just want to make sure I have them covered if possible.

Hello,

I’m seeking a check on a Polish citizenship by descent timeline.

Here is the structural breakdown of the line:

Great-Grandparents:

• Date married: 19 May 1920

• Location: Niedzica, Poland

GGM:

• Date, place of birth: 17 June 1903 – Niedzica, Poland

• Ethnicity and religion: Polish - Catholic

• Occupation: Homemaker

• Allegiance and dates of military service: N/A

• Date, destination for emigration: November 1927 (To US)

• Date naturalized: 7 March 1934

GGF:

• Date, place of birth: 25 February 1889 – Frydman, Poland

• Ethnicity and religion: Polish - Catholic

• Occupation: Laborer

• Allegiance and dates of military service: No US service, unsure of Austria-Hungary service at this time

• Date, destination for emigration: 1927 (To US, left via Nowy Targ)

• Date naturalized: 7 March 1934

Grandparent:

• Sex: Female

• Date, place of birth: 26 January 1931, US

• Date married: October October 1956

• Citizenship of spouse: United States

• Date divorced: N/A

• Occupation: Secretary - non-government

• Allegiance and dates of military service: N/A

Parent:

• Sex: Female

• Date, place of birth: 30 August 1957 – US

• Date married: 13 June 1982

• Date divorced: N/A

Applicant (Me - Patrick):

• Date, place of birth: 1987 – United States

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My Legal Understanding (The Chain):

1. GGF's Status & The 1920 Act: GGF was born in Frydman in 1889. Following the post-WWI border shifts, his village was officially awarded to Poland by the 1920 international border commission. Because he remained on the ground, married in Niedzica, and lived in Frydman until 1927, he legally acquired Polish citizenship under the 1920 Polish Citizenship Act.

2. The 1931 Transmission: My GM was born in the US in January 1931. Because her father (GGF) was a legal Polish citizen at that moment, she acquired Polish citizenship at birth via ius sanguinis (bloodright). Her simultaneous US birthright citizenship did not cause a loss of Polish status under the 1920 Act.

3. GGF's 1934 US Naturalization (The Military Paradox): When GGF naturalized in the US on March 7, 1934, he was 45 years old. Under the 1938 Polish Military Service Act amendment, the military conscription obligation for his specific 1889 birth cohort was extended up to age 60 (valid until the end of 1949). Because he had a continuing, active military service obligation to Poland in 1934, the "military paradox" should have legally blocked his US naturalization from triggering an automated loss of his Polish citizenship.

4. GM's Status Boundary (1949-1956): When GGF's military liability finally lapsed at the end of 1949, my GM was already 18 years old (having turned 18 in January, 1949). Because she was legally an adult under Polish law at that moment, she should be insulated from any derivative loss of citizenship from her father. Furthermore, when she married a foreign citizen in October, 1956, the 1951 Polish Citizenship Act was in force, meaning marriage to a foreigner no longer triggered automated citizenship loss for Polish women.

5. Maternal Transmission (The 1951 Act Shift): My parent was born on August 30, 1957. Because she was born during the 1951–1962 statutory window under the 1951 Act, her Polish mother (GM) possessed full legal authority to automatically transmit her Polish citizenship down to her at birth. The chain then flows smoothly to me.

Hello, my name is Patrick and I come in peace from Pittsburgh. I’ve been doing some research into my family history for genealogy and my grandmother (who is 95 and still kicking) has mentioned a few times that her dad’s sister Maria/Mary lived in Wisconsin on her farm with her husband Joseph. Their last name was Brincka. The story is, Mary sponsored my great grandfather Joseph and his family to immigrate from Poland but he was robbed in Poland, so only made it to Pittsburgh where his other sister lived.

I believe it was somewhere near Abrams in Oconto County. Looking on Find a Grave, I found a Mary and Joseph Brincka who both lived in the area and are buried in the Abrams-Stiles Catholic cemetery. The purpose of my post is to 1) see if anyone is aware of a Brincka farm that was or still is in the area, and 2) direct me to where I could maybe find old obituaries from the 1940s when they passed away. I’ve tried some online searches on FamilySearch and Ancestry and had no luck. If anyone could steer me in the right direction or even just tell me any stories/information you might know about this family and the area, that’d be amazing and I’d truly appreciate it!

Edit: I should mention my gr. Grandfather came to the US in 1927 so they would have been active around that time.

Mods I apologize if this doesn’t fit the subreddit. From what I understand Abrams is around 25 miles from Green Bay so I thought I’d try here. Thanks.