Luxembourg Citizenship Eligibility Is Changing on December 31, 2025. Take Action Now
Luxembourg Citizenship Eligibility Is Changing on December 31, 2025. Take Action Now
In 2025, LuxCitizenship achieved record growth in both client engagement and outcomes, while expanding its services, partnerships, and international presence. In our fifth annual report, we set out in the spirit of transparency and open data our major achievements from the year as well as information about our income-generating activities.
In 2025, we organized, sponsored, and participated in events relevant to Luxembourg Dual Citizens in Brazil, Luxembourg, and the United States.
As far as our citizenship services go, we brought on 912 new clients in 2025. 115 adult clients traveled to Luxembourg to apply for citizenship, accounting for 164 applicants when including minors.
630 LuxCitizenship clients obtained their Luxembourg dual citizenship, bringing our total number to 2,668 confirmed citizens.
Below, we set out some additional memorable moments we achieved as a team in 2025:
In 2025, LuxCitizenship evolved into a more structured operational model, with Executive Director Michelle DeFayette assuming responsibility for day-to-day operations in July. She is supported by a distributed team including Charmie Corpus, Thaiza Romano in Luxembourg, and Barbara Davet, a Brazilian-Luxembourgish dual citizen and lawyer who joined in August 2025.
Lauren Lowell continues to play a key role in operational oversight and systems, alongside other members of the Connaissance Solutions team.
Daniel Atz remains Founder, focusing on strategic direction, partnerships, and long-term expansion initiatives.
In 2025, we welcomed 912 new clients pursuing Luxembourg dual citizenship, which is the highest annual total in our history. We also recorded our highest number of confirmed Luxembourg citizens, 630 in one year.
We have never supported so many clients with relocation to Luxembourg and the EU. To expand our capacity, we partnered with a woman-owned relocation agency in Luxembourg
The Consulate General of Luxembourg selected our founder, Daniel Atz, to attend a private immigration summit in April 2025, bringing together foreign consulates and the New York City Bar Association. Daniel was selected to attend as a leader of the Luxembourg diaspora.
In October, Daniel attended the Trounwiessel, marking the historic enthronement of Crown Prince Guillaume as Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
In June 2025, we launched a new version of our website and logo to better embody our identity and community after 9 years. At the same time, we expanded our platform with new services and initiatives, including Citizenship.EU in September 2025, allowing people with other EU heritages to navigate dual citizenship through ancestry in 22 countries.
We hosted the premiere of our documentary film, Lëtzebuerger an Argentinien (Luxembourgers in Argentina), at Ciné Utopia in Luxembourg City, where more than 120 guests joined us. The screening was followed by a reception featuring wines from the Luxembourgish winery Clos Jangli. View the event photo album here.
Our team hosted an online webinar, “Understanding Education in Luxembourg for Dual Citizens,” for clients, focused on navigating Luxembourg’s K-12 school system with two outstanding students who went through the two systems, international and Luxembourgish. themselves.
Our founder, Daniel Atz, spoke at several public events throughout the year: in Florianópolis alongside immigration lawyer and media commentator Jasmin Singh at a U.S. immigration event with the Association of Luxembourgish Citizens; a “Lunch & Learn” on moving to Europe with the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce; and at Hacktown, Brazil’s largest innovation festival, where he spoke on what ancestry can teach us about AI.
Our team sponsored the mid-March “A Taste of Luxembourg” dinner in New York, along with numerous events hosted by the Luxembourg-American Chamber of Commerce (LACC) throughout the year, supporting engagement within the Luxembourg-American community.
Alongside, SES, LuxCitizenship became a principal sponsor of the Luxembourg National Day Celebration organized by the Consulate General of Luxembourg in New York – the first ever to get an outdoor permit from the City – and in perfect Luxembourg style, it rained!
RTL Today – Article about Luxembourg dual citizenship and open application paths with a link to our eligibility test
L’essentiel – About Daniel’s path to Luxembourg citizenship and the founding of LuxCitizenship
virgule.lu – LuxCitizenship client, Brayden Beckius’ story told in one of the biggest French media outlets in Luxembourg.
Learn more about LuxCitizenship’s clients, the developments in their applications, and the income-generating services our team offered in 2025.
As of December 31st, 2025, LuxCitizenship has helped 3,434 individuals on the path to Luxembourg dual citizenship. Of these individuals, 3,194 are Americans, 29 individuals are from other countries, and 211 people have discontinued their dual citizenship application. The rest of this report covers the 3,194 Americans who are in good standing, ie either actively applying for citizenship or who have already received it.
Of this group, 2,360 or 73.9% are adults and 834 or 26.1% are children. Further breaking it down, 1,645 or 51.5% are male and 1,549 or 48.5% are female.
At the time of applying for citizenship, 3,115 (97.5%) clients reported living in the United States, across all 50 states, and 79 (2.5%) reported living abroad. 17% reported living in Minnesota, 12% in California, 8% in Illinois, 6% in both Wisconsin and Texas, 5% in Washington State and Colorado, 4% in New York State, and 3% in Iowa. The least represented states were Arkansas (3 applicants) and Louisiana (3 applicants).
For more information about the demographics of the Luxembourg American dual citizen community, please visit the American-Luxembourgers Study.
Although there are many ways to legally obtain Luxembourg dual citizenship, we exclusively work on the types of citizenship procedures related to having ancestors from Luxembourg. Each procedure is based on rules in specific articles of the Luxembourgish Nationality Act of March 2017. From the start of our business until the end of 2025, 7% of our clients have been eligible under the now-closed Article 89 procedure, 64% under Article 7, 5% under Article 23, and 24% are exclusively eligible under the combination of Articles 7 and 23.
Notably, the Article 89 process came to an end on December 31st, 2025, for all applicants. Our last clients who were eligible to apply under Article 89 already completed their applications a few years ago. We should be able to find out by the end of April 2026 how many total Americans made an application under Article 89 before the process came to a final end.
912 new clients entered into a contract with LuxCitizenship in 2025. This is a 66% increase from 2024 when we signed up 543 new clients. It also represents by far the largest year on record for our team, with 2024 previously holding the record.
Our clients tend to apply in groups. Out of 2025’s 912 new clients, there were 378 family groups – our highest number ever and a 66% increase over the previous record year, matching the overall 66% rise in new clients. These groups averaged 2.53 people each, slightly above last year’s 2.5 but still far below earlier years and the peak of 6.2 in 2018. In 2025, our largest family group had 20 applicants while 167 individuals applied on their own, a major increase from the previous record of 111 in 2024. Among the 378 family groups, there were 286 Luxembourg ancestors, meaning some of our clients are relatives of each other. This figure also marks our highest ancestor count in nine years.
For 2025’s new clients, 0% (0 people) applied under Article 89, 6% (58) were under Article 23, 30% (270) were under the Articles 7 & 23 combo, and 64% (579) applied under Article 7.
By December 31st, 2025, a total of 2,608 out of 3,194 active US clients had definitively received their Luxembourg dual citizenship. An additional 60 individuals have made a valid citizenship declaration in Luxembourg and have proof of citizenship coming imminently in early 2026. Combined, they make up 2,668 people or 84% of total LuxCitizenship clients who are, or will soon be, bona fide Luxembourg dual citizens. With 526 open cases, 2025 was the year where we ended with the most open applications still pending since 2021.
2,668 dual citizens represent an increase of 630 dual citizens more than in 2024 when the number was 2,038. In total, 22% of LuxCitizenship’s clients who have dual citizenship got it in 2025.
Of the 2,668 LuxCitizenship dual citizens, we can break the figures down based on application type. 240 individuals or 9% obtained dual citizenship under Article 89, 100 or 4% under Article 23, 553 or 20% under the 7/23 combo, and 1775 or 67% under Article 7.
In 2025, Article 7 corresponded to 74% of the total new citizens or 467 individuals. Our first client to receive a 2025 nationality certificate sent their application on December 12th, 2024, and the last clients to receive 2025 nationality certificates sent their applications in late November 2025. July 2025 was the month with the most applications sent to Luxembourg (58).
Since 2018, Luxembourg’s government has rejected four applications submitted by LuxCitizenship compared to 2,665 successful applications. Three of these were due to “dishonest” applications by the clients and one due to complex legal issues from already possessing multiple citizenships. Three out of the four were eventually appealed and approved.
However, a few times a year, we enter into a contract with a client only to later discover that they are, in fact, not eligible to apply. The most common reason clients are not eligible is ancestors being born in former Luxembourgish towns ceded to Belgium. Despite our best efforts to determine eligibility during the consultation phase, this applied four times in 2025.
This is the first year we are reporting on churn and ended contracts for other reasons than rejections or non-qualification. During 2025, we terminated 1 client contract for cause, 2 clients terminated their contract to pursue citizenship with family members applying through another company, and 12 previously active clients’ contracts expired after the regular 12 month term. The latter clients received the “Personalized Completion Kit” from us and may still well obtain citizenship on their own in the future.
In addition to citizenship services, we carried out 25 separate Luxembourg genealogical research projects in 2025, an increase of 9 from 2024.
Beyond our clients, many more people benefit from resources which we make publicly available online and free of charge, including via our website, social media, and through video platforms.
From January 1st-December 31st, 2025, we had 32,124 visitors to our webpage who viewed the different pages of our website 102,642 times,
Of our visitors, 63% came from the US, 9% from Luxembourg and 8% from Brazil. By all measures, we have experienced two years of decline in international users while we experience consistent growth in US users. The top five cities our visitors came from were Luxembourg City (6%), Chicago (5.5%), Minneapolis (4%), New York (3%), and Ashburn, GA (2%).
Since we launched the Eligibility Test in 2021, we averaged 700-750 respondents per year until 2024, when we noticed a 47% spike to a total of 1,103 inquiries. During 2025, we received 1,527 entries, a 38% increase from 2024 and a 110% increase from figures seen in 2023 and years before. Averaging out to 127 inquiries per month during 2025, the highest months were February 2025 (173) and April 2025 (169). Of the eligibility opinions we issued, 774 (51%) were for Article 7, 427 (28%) for 7/23 (including results where only a parent or grandparent was eligible), 111 (7%) for Article 23, 128 (8%) were eligibility denials, and 58 (4%) stated that they weren’t sure if they had an ancestor and may need genealogical research support. While the gross numbers of inquiries increased significantly from 2024, the proportions are almost identical.
On LinkedIn, we ended 2025 with 1,128 followers (+31%). During 2025, Meta ended reporting of “Like” metrics on Facebook, however we ended the year with 1,553 followers (+11.2%) as well as 1,183 followers on Instagram.
Who makes up LuxCitizenship, what is our mission, and what do we offer to the Luxembourg dual citizen community?
LuxCitizenship.com is an online platform helping people get dual citizenship, relocate and find professional opportunities in Luxembourg and across Europe.
We set out on this adventure as a mission-driven social enterprise in 2016. We specifically work with individuals who have ancestors from Luxembourg to establish eligibility and apply for dual citizenship in the Grand Duchy.
We also strive to educate and keep these dual citizens informed about Luxembourg’s culture, economy, and history. Once these individuals obtain dual citizenship, we also help them assess, prepare for, and accomplish building a future in Europe.
LuxCitizenship was founded by international affairs expert and entrepreneur Daniel Atz.
Learn more about our clients, who got dual citizenship and how we grew in 2024.