# Citizenship by descent: Citizenship by Descent Index

> The median published figure in the Citizenship by Descent Index is 600 EUR across 1 source's own page in EUR (range 600 to 600 EUR; 2 sources publish a figure), read 17 October 2026.

Immigration Adviser Finder · https://immigrationadviserfinder.com/datasets/citizenship-by-descent-index/ · computed 2026-10-19

**Median published figure:** 600 EUR (range 600 to 600 EUR; 1 published figures; 2 of 23 sources read publish one).

2 of the 23 named sources read in full publish a figure; 21 publish none, read 17 October 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 600 EUR across 1).

## By nationality

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| nationality IT | 600 EUR | 600 to 600 EUR | 1 |
| nationality GB | 1,839 GBP | 1,839 to 1,839 GBP | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [GOV.UK - Apply for citizenship if you have indefinite leave to remain](https://www.gov.uk/apply-citizenship-indefinite-leave-to-remain) | 1,839 GBP | GB | 2026-10-17 |
| [Consolato Generale d'Italia Londra - Citizenship iure sanguinis: new regulatory framework](https://conslondra.esteri.it/en/servizi-consolari-e-visti/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero/cittadinanza/citizenship-iure-sanguinis-new-regulatory-framework/) | 600 EUR | IT | 2026-10-17 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (2)

- [GOV.UK - Apply for citizenship if you have indefinite leave to remain](https://www.gov.uk/apply-citizenship-indefinite-leave-to-remain), read 2026-10-17: "It costs £1,839 (£1,709 to apply and a £130 citizenship ceremony fee)."
- [Consolato Generale d'Italia Londra - Citizenship iure sanguinis: new regulatory framework](https://conslondra.esteri.it/en/servizi-consolari-e-visti/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero/cittadinanza/citizenship-iure-sanguinis-new-regulatory-framework/), read 2026-10-17: "Applications for citizenship by descent are subject to a fee of 600 EURO (Consular fees – Consolato Generale d’Italia Londra)."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [Department of Foreign Affairs (Ireland) - Citizenship through descent / Foreign Births Register](https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/citizenship/born-abroad/), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [IRCC (Canada) - Proof of citizenship: who can apply](https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/proof-citizenship/eligibility.html), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [IRCC (Canada) - Proof of citizenship (certificate)](https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/proof-citizenship.html), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Poland) - Confirmation of possession or loss of Polish citizenship](https://www.gov.pl/web/mswia-en/confirmation-of-possession-or-loss-of-polish-citizenship), read 2026-09-19: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Ministerio de Justicia (Spain) - Nacionalidad espanola (sede electronica)](https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/tramites/nacionalidad-espanola), read 2026-10-17: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Ministerio de Justicia (Spain) - Nacionalidad espanola por residencia](https://www.mjusticia.gob.es/es/ciudadania/tramites/nacionalidad-residencia), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Ministerio da Justica (Portugal) - Nacionalidade](https://justica.gov.pt/Registos/Nacionalidade), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Service-Public (France) - Certificat de nationalite francaise](https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1051), read 2026-10-17: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Ministry of the Interior (Greece) - Acquisition of Greek citizenship: supporting documents](https://www.ypes.gr/en/acquisition-of-the-greek-citizenship-sup-doc/), read 2026-10-17: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Greece) - Greek citizenship (consular services)](https://www.mfa.gr/usa/en/services/citizen-services/greek-citizenship/), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Consolato Generale d'Italia Londra - Cittadinanza per discendenza (previous framework)](https://conslondra.esteri.it/en/servizi-consolari-e-visti/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero/cittadinanza/cittadinanza-per-discendenza/), read 2026-10-10: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Bundesministerium fur Inneres (Austria) - Staatsburgerschaft](https://www.bmi.gv.at/312/), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Ministerstvo vnutra (Slovakia) - Statne obcianstvo](https://www.minv.sk/?statne-obcianstvo), read 2026-10-17: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Bundesverwaltungsamt (Germany) - Citizenship](https://www.bva.bund.de/EN/Services/Citizens/ID-Documents-Law/Citizenship/citizenship_node.html), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Argentina) - Opcion de nacionalidad para hijos de argentinos nativos](https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/es/servicios/nacionalidad-argentina/opcion-de-nacionalidad-argentina-para-hijos-de-argentinos-nativos), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK - Check if you can become a British citizen](https://www.gov.uk/british-citizenship), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK - Dual citizenship](https://www.gov.uk/dual-citizenship), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Home Office - Application to naturalise as a British citizen: form AN (guide)](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-to-naturalise-as-a-british-citizen-form-an), read 2026-10-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Home Office - Register as a British citizen: form UKF](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-as-a-british-citizen-if-you-were-born-before-july-2006-to-a-british-father-form-ukf), read 2026-10-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK - Register as a British citizen: child born outside the UK to a British parent](https://www.gov.uk/apply-citizenship-british-parent), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [State Secretariat for Migration (Switzerland) - Becoming Swiss](https://www.sem.admin.ch/sem/en/home/integration-einbuergerung/schweizer-werden.html), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 23 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 21 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in EUR (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 5 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per nationality per ancestral route: how many generations the law carries (parent, grandparent, great-grandparent), the cut-off dates and the events that break the line, whether registration or declaration, any residence or language condition, whether the state permits dual nationality, the fee in its own currency and the authority's own stated waiting time - so the estate can compute what nobody publishes: the RANKING of ancestral routes by generation depth, cost and wait, which is the literal answer to 'easiest country to get citizenship', and the changed-since when a nationality act moves (Canada's first-generation limit, Italy's Decree-Law 36/2025, Portugal's Lei Organica 1/2026)

## Sources

- [Department of Foreign Affairs (Ireland) - Citizenship through descent / Foreign Births Register](https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/citizenship/born-abroad/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [IRCC (Canada) - Proof of citizenship: who can apply](https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/proof-citizenship/eligibility.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [IRCC (Canada) - Proof of citizenship (certificate)](https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/proof-citizenship.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Poland) - Confirmation of possession or loss of Polish citizenship](https://www.gov.pl/web/mswia-en/confirmation-of-possession-or-loss-of-polish-citizenship) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ministerio de Justicia (Spain) - Nacionalidad espanola (sede electronica)](https://sede.mjusticia.gob.es/tramites/nacionalidad-espanola) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ministerio de Justicia (Spain) - Nacionalidad espanola por residencia](https://www.mjusticia.gob.es/es/ciudadania/tramites/nacionalidad-residencia) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ministerio da Justica (Portugal) - Nacionalidade](https://justica.gov.pt/Registos/Nacionalidade) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Service-Public (France) - Certificat de nationalite francaise](https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1051) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ministry of the Interior (Greece) - Acquisition of Greek citizenship: supporting documents](https://www.ypes.gr/en/acquisition-of-the-greek-citizenship-sup-doc/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Greece) - Greek citizenship (consular services)](https://www.mfa.gr/usa/en/services/citizen-services/greek-citizenship/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Consolato Generale d'Italia Londra - Citizenship iure sanguinis: new regulatory framework](https://conslondra.esteri.it/en/servizi-consolari-e-visti/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero/cittadinanza/citizenship-iure-sanguinis-new-regulatory-framework/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Consolato Generale d'Italia Londra - Cittadinanza per discendenza (previous framework)](https://conslondra.esteri.it/en/servizi-consolari-e-visti/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero/cittadinanza/cittadinanza-per-discendenza/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Bundesministerium fur Inneres (Austria) - Staatsburgerschaft](https://www.bmi.gv.at/312/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ministerstvo vnutra (Slovakia) - Statne obcianstvo](https://www.minv.sk/?statne-obcianstvo) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Bundesverwaltungsamt (Germany) - Citizenship](https://www.bva.bund.de/EN/Services/Citizens/ID-Documents-Law/Citizenship/citizenship_node.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Argentina) - Opcion de nacionalidad para hijos de argentinos nativos](https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/es/servicios/nacionalidad-argentina/opcion-de-nacionalidad-argentina-para-hijos-de-argentinos-nativos) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK - Check if you can become a British citizen](https://www.gov.uk/british-citizenship) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK - Dual citizenship](https://www.gov.uk/dual-citizenship) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK - Apply for citizenship if you have indefinite leave to remain](https://www.gov.uk/apply-citizenship-indefinite-leave-to-remain) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Home Office - Application to naturalise as a British citizen: form AN (guide)](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-to-naturalise-as-a-british-citizen-form-an) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Home Office - Register as a British citizen: form UKF](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-as-a-british-citizen-if-you-were-born-before-july-2006-to-a-british-father-form-ukf) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK - Register as a British citizen: child born outside the UK to a British parent](https://www.gov.uk/apply-citizenship-british-parent) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [State Secretariat for Migration (Switzerland) - Becoming Swiss](https://www.sem.admin.ch/sem/en/home/integration-einbuergerung/schweizer-werden.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Argentina.gob.ar - Obtener la ciudadania argentina](https://www.argentina.gob.ar/servicio/obtener-la-ciudadania-argentina) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [the nationality authority per country](https://www.ilo.org/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The median published figure in the Citizenship by Descent Index is 600 EUR across 1 source's own page in EUR (range 600 to 600 EUR; 2 sources publish a figure), read 17 October 2026.
- 2 of the 23 named sources read in full publish a figure; 21 publish none, read 17 October 2026.
- Citizenship by Descent Index, nationality IT: median 600 EUR across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.
- Citizenship by Descent Index, nationality GB: median 1,839 GBP across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.
- The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 600 EUR across 1).

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