Not just your next trip. Your next chapter.A neighbourhood you love. A career without visa sponsorship. More possibilities for your children. Your family history could be the place to start.
Select a country or switch the citizenship view. This is a mobility illustration, not an eligibility test. Map focuses on the EU and UK; other agreements and overseas territories are not shown. Malta is shown as a marker. [1][7][8][12]
Fee status depends on your circumstances, including nationality/residence status and prior degrees. Living costs are excluded. Admission and student funding have separate rules. [3][10]
04 Your people, in the picture
A new chapter. Not a solo one.
YouEU citizen
Your partnerQualifying relationship
Your childrenApplicable family rules
A non-EU spouse or qualifying children can have rights to join you—and work—when you move to another EU country under free-movement rules. [4]
Their passports do not necessarily need to match yours for the move to be possible.
Relationships, dependency and documents matter. Moving to your own country usually involves national rules. Citizenship for children is a separate question.
05 Healthcare in the bigger picture
A new home. A local system of care.
Plan for life. Plan for care.
Make the moveArrange residence & insuranceAccess local cover
Citizenship can make relocating possible. Residence, work and insurance rules then determine how you access the local healthcare system. [5]
A passport alone does not provide automatic or universally free healthcare. Coverage must be planned around your circumstances.
06 Room for a later chapter
Make “one day” an actual place.
A different everyday · Illustration
More choice for later.Somewhere slower. Somewhere yours.
Picture a retirement setting you choose as home, rather than a destination you can only visit. EU rules provide a residence route for pensioners who meet the conditions. [6]
Sufficient resources and comprehensive health insurance are generally required. Taxes, pensions and local costs need their own planning.
Your roots and your future can be in different places.
One nationality. A much wider horizon.
Your passport country does not have to be the country you settle in. EU citizenship brings mobility rights across the Union—not citizenship of every member state. [1][2][8]
The country matters. Our research separates the nationality you might hold from the places and rights it could open up.
European Union
The EU-wide opportunity.
Citizenship of an EU member state is the basis for the EU mobility benefits described here. The country your family came from does not necessarily have to be the country where you build your future. [1][2][8]
United Kingdom
A different set of rights.
British citizenship does not itself provide EU-wide free movement. It offers a different opportunity: British and Irish citizens can live and work in each other’s countries under the Common Travel Area arrangements. [7]
Ireland has a distinctive combination. Irish citizens have EU citizenship rights and can also live and work in the UK under the Common Travel Area. Those UK rights do not automatically extend to every non-Irish family member. [1][7]
This is where Jackson & Schwab comes in
You bring the names. We research the possibilities.
You should not have to understand historical nationality rules, know which ancestor matters or arrive with a complete evidence file just to get started.
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Start with what you know.
Names, places, rough dates, family stories or records. Gaps are part of the reason to research.
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Find the line worth testing.
We examine the relevant family history and citizenship events, rather than making you choose a country first.
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Understand the evidence and next step.
You receive a written route assessment, the weak points, the missing proof and a plan for what comes next.
Before you start
Good questions. Clear answers.
This is a research service, not a passport promise. Here is what that means in practice.
Do I need a finished family tree?
No. Start with the names, places, rough dates or family stories you know. You do not have to identify the right ancestor or choose a country before asking us to research the possibilities.
Is European ancestry enough to qualify?
Not by itself. A nationality route depends on the country, the relevant dates, the family relationship and events such as naturalisation or loss of citizenship. We research the line rather than treating a surname or DNA result as proof. [9]
Do you stop at parents and grandparents?
We do not use a universal two-generation cutoff. The relevant country and history determine how far a line is worth investigating. Older ancestry can be relevant to some cases, but depth alone does not establish eligibility. Unusually deep or archival work may need a separate scope.
Could my children benefit too?
Possibly, but their position needs its own assessment. Transmission rules, registration requirements and timing differ by country. For example, Irish citizenship through Foreign Birth Registration can depend on whether a parent was registered before the child was born. We do not promise automatic citizenship for every descendant. [9]
Does citizenship make healthcare and university free?
No. EU tuition rules protect against nationality-based fee discrimination; they do not make every degree free. Healthcare entitlement depends on the applicable insurance and residence system, not simply on the passport you hold. These are planning opportunities, not blanket entitlements. [3][5]
What if the scan does not find a viable route?
You receive the research findings, the obstacles identified and an explanation of what the evidence supports. The $500 fee pays for the research and written assessment, not a guaranteed positive result or a passport.
Are you a law firm or a government agency?
Neither. Jackson & Schwab provides nationality research, document strategy and general informational support. We do not grant citizenship, provide legal representation or guarantee an authority's decision. Questions requiring regulated legal advice should be taken to an appropriately authorised professional.
Your family history might have more to tell you
The next chapter starts with a question.
Could your family’s past open up a different future in Europe? Find out what is worth pursuing—and what it would take to prove it.
These summaries focus on EU citizenship unless stated otherwise. Europe, the EU, the EEA and Schengen are not interchangeable. Nationality, residence, healthcare, education and family rules must be checked for your circumstances. Citizenship does not by itself guarantee employment, benefits, admission or a particular tax outcome. Official rules and eligibility criteria can change. The map is a simplified geographic illustration, not a border or legal-status determination. EU law is suspended in the parts of Cyprus where the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control. Country highlights do not indicate that citizenship by descent is available to every applicant.
