Croatian Passport?

[AngeloZ]

We just received this email - can anyone help?

"Please accpet my apologies if this is the wrong email
address but it was the only one I have been able to
obtain as the british embassy's email addresses does
not work. Please could you tell me or direct me
somewhere else to where I might see about my
eligibility for a croatian passport.

My mother's family are croatian and I am british born.
Overall, I was wondering whether I too would be able
to hold a croatian passport? and what is the process
for obtaining it?"

[cronautic dot com]

hi!
i went through this in germany as well.
to optain a croatian passport you will have to go to the croatian embassy or consulate.
you will need a verified translation of your birth certificate and a certification that your mother is a croatian national AND ethnic croatian. then you will have to go through a procedure in which you will have to assure the croatian authorities in written form why you want to get the croatian nationality and declare why you identify yourself as a croatian. this must be written in croatian, of course.

but i would like to remind you, if you have both passports, in croatia they will treat you exclusively as a croatian. if you get in trouble there, the british authorities won't do anything to help you and vice versa.

[Janet]

[e-mail] at the British Embassy in Zagreb is very good on these things too.