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Wajngort → Diaz — Polish Citizenship by Descent

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Polish Citizenship by Descent

Working package for Elijah Salome-Diaz · great-grandfather route through Berek Lejb Wajngort of Ostrów Mazowiecka. Click any document below to open it.

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Overview — read this first

The whole case in one readable page. Plain English, no jargon. The lineage, the legal question, the three arguments, what to do next, a glossary. Synthesises everything in the rest of the folder.

Deep-dive documents

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US Law Analysis

Tier-1 verified answers to your three challenges — automatic derivation under the 1907 Act, the visa question, and Polish-marriage recognition. Cites 8 FAM 301.9, Acheson v. Albert, and the 1920 Polish Act directly.
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Legal Theory of the Case

The full legal brief. How the chain survives the 1928 Elias-naturalization problem. Written to the CLAUDE.md verification standard with explicit source tiers.
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30-Day Action Plan

What to do this week and next month, with pre-filled USCIS data and links to every form.
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Lineage Map

Five generations from Ostrów to North Hempstead, with per-card source citations. Documented facts only, no legal interpretation.
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Workflow Map

From today through the Voivode decision — five phases with decision points, costs, and timelines.
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Polish Archive Records

All 8 Pajączkowska 2023 translations from the Pułtusk archive, transcribed from chat. Includes the 1905 military-service summons annotation in Ela's residence book. Note: this evidence is from Russian Imperial authority, not Polish — the military-paradox argument has been downgraded accordingly.
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Uploads Audit

Every file you uploaded, where it's filed in the project folder, and what it proves. Reconfirmation check.

Primary sources (Tier 1 — re-acquired 29 Jul 2026, in sources/)

8 FAM 301.9 — US State Dept. Foreign Affairs Manual
Acquisition of US citizenship by parent(s)' naturalization prior to the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. The FAM chart at 301.9-4 maps Berek's case directly.
USCIS Policy Manual — Vol. 12, Part H, Ch. 7
Deriving citizenship before the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. Current USCIS handling of former INA 320 and 321 cases.
Acheson v. Albert, 195 F.2d 573 (D.C. Cir. 1952)
Federal appellate opinion confirming the automatic-derivation scheme for a Polish-born child whose father naturalized in May 1928. Persuasive authority — decided under the successor 1934 Act; see US Law Analysis for precise scope.
1920 Polish Citizenship Act (GlobalCit / Refworld English text)
English text of Articles 1–15, including Article 11 (loss of citizenship + military-service proviso) and Article 13 (extension to wife and minor children). Authoritative original: Dz.U. 1920 nr 7 poz. 44.
1997 Polish Constitution (Constitutional Tribunal English text)
Official English translation. Article 34(2): "A Polish citizen shall not lose Polish citizenship except by renunciation thereof."
2009 Polish Citizenship Act (GlobalCit English translation)
The Act currently in force — Article 55 is the basis of the confirmation application to the Voivode. Added 29 Jul 2026.

Working files & case documents

Certified death-record packages — Elias (1941) & Bessie (1973)
Received April 2026, filed 29 July 2026: certified copies + exemplification letters (apostille-grade), stored locally in Desktop/"Polish Citizenship Documents". Details in the Audit page.
April 2026 document tree — RECOVERED 29 Jul 2026
The full organized case tree (Document_Inventory_Master.xlsx, Master Legal Guide, Status Report, and all certificate PDFs — birth certs, visa card, the naturalization petition, the Polish archives package, Berek's FL death cert; 58 files) was found in Downloads/"Polish citizenship decent" and copied to Desktop/"Polish Citizenship Documents"/Case_Tree_April2026. The documentary record is back in the applicant's custody. Reading the petition resolved the court-of-record question — see the Audit page.
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