Restoration — Holocaust descendant (2017 amendment)

Escenarios de ejemplo

• ELIGIBLE under the survivor limb (Art 13 §1 L.4018/2011). Files with the Greek Consul in Israel with proof of Jewish origin, Greek birth before 9-5-1945, and prior Greek nationality + its loss; MoI issues a restoration decision; he takes the Art 9 oath at the consulate and acquires Greek nationality from the oath date. No €550 fee, no ΠΕΓΠ exam, no renunciation of Israeli nationality.

  All four §1 conditions are met: Jewish origin, born in Greece before 9 May 1945, still living, held Greek nationality from birth and lost it. Acquisition is a new acquisition effective «από την ορκωμοσία» (not retroactive), per the primary nomoskopio text (GR-EV-094). Restoration is by MoI decision, outside the allogeneis naturalisation track.

• ELIGIBLE under the descendant limb (Art 13 §2 / Art 109 L.4461/2017) via Code Art 10 ομογενής naturalisation — NOT automatically Greek by virtue of her father's restoration. She files an Art 10 declaration before the consul with 2 Greek-citizen witnesses, her birth certificate, passport, criminal-record certificate, and the ancestral chain; MoI issues a naturalisation decision; she takes the Art 9 oath. ~18-month processing, ~€100 + consular impost, no renunciation.

  §1 is non-retroactive and forward-dated to the oath, so she was not made Greek automatically when her father restored (GR-EV-094). As a lineal descendant of a §1 beneficiary she qualifies under §2 and naturalises under Art 10 as ομογενής (GR-EV-095, GR-EV-055), exempt from the Art 5A/ΠΕΓΠ exam (GR-EV-058).

• ELIGIBLE under the descendant limb (Art 13 §2 / Art 109 L.4461/2017) as a lineal descendant of a DECEASED eligible person. The Romaniote (non-Sephardic) lineage is no bar — the statute covers all Jewish origin «εβραϊκής καταγωγής». Files an Art 10 declaration before the Greek Consul in New York with the full ancestral chain (grandfather → parent → applicant), using community/archival records to substitute for civil records destroyed in the deportations.

  §2 expressly covers descendants of deceased Jewish-origin persons born in Greece before 9-5-1945; the ancestor need not have completed §1 (GR-EV-095). The 'Sephardic' route label is descriptive, not statutory (A238 naming flag) — Romaniote descendants qualify. The evidentiary crux is the unbroken lineal chain, with archival substitutes for destroyed records.

• NOT ELIGIBLE under §1 — born AFTER the 9-5-1945 cutoff and, in any case, he never lost Greek nationality (nothing to restore). The §1 limb is inapplicable. If a parent of his was born in Greece before 9-5-1945 and lost Greek nationality, that PARENT'S line could anchor a §2 descendant claim for the parent's other descendants, but this persona himself is already Greek and gains nothing from the route.

  The §1 birth cutoff is strictly before 9 May 1945; a birth on 10 May 1945 falls outside it (edge case in GR-EV-094). Restoration also presupposes a prior loss, which is absent here. The route adds nothing for someone who already holds Greek nationality.

• ELIGIBLE under the descendant limb (Art 13 §2 / Art 109 L.4461/2017) independently of her father's inaction. §2 covers lineal descendants of §1-eligible persons whether or not the ancestor has completed §1. She files an Art 10 declaration before the Greek Consul in France with the ancestral chain proving her father's Greek birth before 9-5-1945, Jewish origin, and loss of nationality. ~€100, ~18 months, no renunciation of French nationality.

  The §2 right does not require the ancestor to have first restored; it attaches to descendants of §1 beneficiaries AND of deceased eligible persons, and by extension to living-but-non-applying eligible ancestors documented through the chain (GR-EV-095). Conservative practice: assemble the full ancestral documentary chain because the consul must evidence the ancestor's qualifying Greek-Jewish status.