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Updated: July 2nd, 2023
Written by: Daniel Atz with Lauren Lowell
As of June 30th, 2023, 14,111 Luxembourg citizens were living in the United States of America. Who are these new dual citizens? This study is a one-of-a-kind overview of the American-Luxembourger dual citizens.
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In 2018, we at LuxCitizenship began to realize that there was a serious need to demystify who are the American born individuals applying for Luxembourg citizenship through ancestry. We decided to use the aggregated data from our clients’ citizenship applications to create an overview of this new population. We called this the American-Luxembourgers Study. Our first study was based on 241 dual citizen applicants and 46 Luxembourg ancestors.
Now in its 5th annual edition, the 2023 American-Luxembourgers study is based on data from Luxembourg’s Ministry of Justice, National Archives, Data.Public.Lu, CTIE, STATEC, and our own study of 1,029 (future) dual citizens and 223 Luxembourg ancestors.
In 2008, the new Luxembourg Nationality Act introduced the concept of dual citizenship in Luxembourg. Since then, thousands of people have obtained Luxembourgish dual citizenship through ancestry.
According to Luxembourg’s Ministry of Justice’s statistics, in 2022, 668 American adults obtained Luxembourg citizenship through an ancestor alive on January 1st, 1900. But these numbers actually hide much larger total growth. There are various paths to obtain proof of Luxembourg citizenship through ancestry. According to the National Registry of Physical Persons (RNPP), since 2018, the number of Luxembourg citizens in the United States has increased from 3,602 to 14,111. This increase of 10,509 citizens is equivalent to 292% growth over five years.
As of June 2023, the United States is the fifth foreign country in the world with the most Luxembourg Citizens. It comes in just behind Germany and before Switzerland. And these numbers are guaranteed to grow. As many as 1,000 of the original American 4,509 qualified American adults may still be eligible to travel to Luxembourg and claim citizenship under Article 89. Their final deadline to do so is December 2025.
Luxembourg has a population of 665,896. There are already 14,111 Luxembourg citizens living in the United States, which is equivalent to 2% of Luxembourg’s total population.
The total population of American-Luxembourgers is now equivalent to 2% of Luxembourg’s total population. It’s time to get to know this new population
In our ancestors study, we established that our 1,209 (future) dual citizens had 223 Luxembourg ancestors. These ancestors mostly came from Luxembourg in the mid-1800s, and the largest group settled in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
From these 223 ancestors, 223 families popped up and branched out. Today, the 1,029 American-Luxembourgers cover a wide range of demographics and walks of life.
The biggest grouping of our dual citizens is in the 18-39 age range and 4-5 generations removed from their ancestor.
American-Luxembourg dual citizen Karissa eloquently explains about what her Luxembourg heritage means to her. This was part of a 2020 video campaign during the outbreak of Covid-19.
Much like their Luxembourg ancestors, many of our study’s participants were born and live in Midwestern states such as Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin. 34.9% of all our participants live in these three states alone.
Nearly 70% of participants no longer live in the state where their Luxembourg ancestor resided. Of these same participants, 43% of them also do not live in the state where they were born. Overall, this is a very mobile population.
Despite similar maps above, many participants have moved states in their lifetimes. The most common trend we see is from the Midwest to the West Coast. Also while over 1/3 of our American Luxembourger Survey respondents expressed having lived outside the US at some point in their lives, only 2% currently live in a foreign country.
Just over half of our dual citizens are married. On the other hand, only 43% have children. The largest group among them has two children.
The minimum education level of the participants in this study was a high school degree, and 90% indicate they have pursued higher education beyond high school.
Some of the most common college majors among our participants were Law, Business Administration, Nursing, and Computer Science.
While American Luxembourgers work in a wide variety of fields, over 1 in 10 work in education, while the same number work in healthcare.
The American Luxembourger participants in our study have many different jobs and titles, but some of the most common professor, operations manager, president, and social worker.
Continue on to our American Dual Citizens Survey to learn more about the applicant’s motivations and future plans.
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