Romanian Citizenship Law Amended
A recent amendment to Law No. 21/1991 on Romanian Citizenship (“Citizenship Law”), which was modified by Law No. 14/2025, became effective mid March, 2025. Among other changes, this amendment introduces a new Romanian language proficiency requirement for citizenship applicants. I….
Romania Joins the U.S. Visa Waiver Program: What Travelers Need to Know Starting March 31
As of March 31, 2025, Romania officially joins the United States Visa Waiver Program (VWP), marking a significant milestone in U.S.-Romanian relations. This development means that Romanian citizens can now travel to the United States for tourism, business, or transit…
New elements in the Romanian Citizenship Law: Biometrics and Electronic Citizenship Card
In an effort to enhance the security and integrity of the Romanian citizenship acquisition process and to mitigate the risk of fraudulent activities through the submission of false documents, the Romanian Government has adopted Emergency Ordinance No. 100/2024. This ordinance…
Romania in Schengen as of 31 March 2024
#Romania #Schengen The Council of the EU has adopted on 30 December, the Decision on the application of the Schengen acquis in Romania and Bulgaria. From 31 March 2024, there will no longer be checks on persons at EU internal air and…
Romanian Citizenship by descent for Jewish
Citizenship by descent comes with a personal history, one belonging to each of our client. Our client from today didn’t have any birth certificate from his deceased mother, who was born in a city in Neamt county, Roman. Our team…
EU Commission gives a heads up to the Council for allowing Romania and Bulgaria to join Schengen in 2023
The European Commission underlined that maintaining the EU’s internal borders with Romania and Bulgaria has economic and environmental consequences for both countries and for the EU bloc as a whole, in its second report on Schengen 2023 published on 16…
ROMANIANS IN CANADA
The vast majority of the first wave of Romanian emigrants to Canada arrived in the New World before the First World War, between 1907 and 1913, mainly for economic reasons. Some of them, fewer in number, came to Canada to…
Paying the share capital after incorporating a company in Romania
The companies’ law has been recently amended, the limit of the subscribed share capital of 200 Lei (local currency) being no longer mandatory. Therefore, when you decide to set up a limited liability company in Romania, you can have a…
Standard and Poor’s recommends Romania as safe for investments
As regards Standard and Poor’s rating grades, a bond is considered investment grade if its credit rating is BBB− or higher. Whenever bonds are rated with BBB+ such are qualified as being speculative and “junk” bonds. Standard & Poor's has reconfirmed in April...
Romania in Schengen
Romania will join Schengen area in 2022, based on the statement of European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson issued in February 2022 further to a visit of the humanitarian aid camp in the Siret Border Crossing Point with Ukraine,…