~24.7M Americans may be entitled to a second citizenship. ~180K/yr a year claim one.
The gap is not family history. It is the work required to turn that history into an organized, record-backed claim.
The barrier is not ancestry. It is the process.
Requirements are written for administrators, records sit across agencies that do not share systems, and current rules can outpace the article a family first found online.
Heritage Passport turns those disconnected obligations into one case: the family line, the governing program, the exact evidence gaps, the authority that owns each record, and the next action that can actually move.
Bottoms-up study across multiple country programs, published 2026-07-21. Source: The Hidden Heirs, Heritage Passport Research.
We are not an alternative to attorneys. We are the layer beneath them.
Some cases genuinely need a specialist: judicial routes, contested records, and administrative appeals among them. When a case is one of those, we say so.
Our job is to make sure the applicant—and any professional they engage—works from a file that is complete, organized, and explicit about uncertainty before anyone bills an hour against it.
We sit between the people who may qualify and everyone who helps them file—never in place of them.
One million people holding a citizenship they were always entitled to and never claimed. The constraint was never a lack of family history. It was a lack of infrastructure. So we are building it.
A platform built for ancestry-based citizenship. Not adapted to it.
The shared country projection keeps different coverage claims separate. A country in the catalog is not automatically visible in Explore, and an Explore entry is not automatically a live eligibility check or an in-depth pathway.
Filled countries have an in-depth public hub. Every name and figure in this block comes from the same server-owned coverage projection.