Zipping the threads of heritage.
ZIP Citizenship brings together lawyers, genealogists, translators and consultants under one roof — so your journey back to your Slovak roots is handled with expertise, care, and a personal touch.
Why we built ZIP Citizenship as a full-service team
Getting Slovak citizenship by descent touches three very different worlds: genealogy, law, and heritage. Sometimes it even involves detective work! Most firms handle only one of these aspects — leaving you to coordinate the rest yourself.
We built ZIP Citizenship differently. From the start, we brought together an experienced genealogist with over a decade of archive research in Slovakia, qualified lawyers specialising in citizenship law, certified translators, and dedicated consultants who keep your case on track every step of the way. Any legal services, such as legal assessments, and representation of our clients, are provided by a law firm, and all non-legal services, such as genealogy, research, translation, and document hunting, by the heritage consultancy. The result is a team that speaks to each other — not a group of individual specialists you have to manage yourself.
A journey back to your roots.
And throughout the process, we try to make it feel like what it really is — a journey back to your roots. We drop cultural breadcrumbs along the way: stories from Slovakia, traditions your ancestors carried with them, a glimpse of the villages they left behind. Because we believe that reconnecting with your citizenship and reconnecting with your heritage are the same thing.
Meet Our Experts
Lucia Husovcová
Mgr. Lucia Husovcová, LLM, is the firm’s Director. Lucia is a lawyer specialsed in immigration issues. She practiced in law firms in Slovakia and Germany, and in international organisations dealing with immigration and citizenship issues (eg International Organisation for Migration). She studied law in Košice (Mgr) and Munich (LLM). She is also an external translator from German to Slovak for the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Lucia’s ancestors were Slovaks born in the areas around Snina, Košice, and Pennsylvania (United States).
Lucia speaks Slovak, English, German and Spanish.
Professor Martin Husovec
Professor Martin Husovec (LinkedIn page) is Lucia’s husband and lawyer who provides the firm with necessary legal advice. He is an attorney at law in Slovakia (Registration No. 8283) and a law professor in the United Kingdom. He studied law in Košice (Mgr) and Munich (PhD), and taught in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Martin lectures at the London School of Economics (See here), and is a big history enthusiast.
Martin’s ancestors were Slovak, Rusyns, and Carpathian Germans born in the areas around Kremnica, Košice, Snina, Medzilaborce, and Rymanów-Zdrój (Poland).
Martin speaks Slovak, English, German and Spanish.
Zuzana
Zuzana is our Client Journey Specialist. Zuzana studied law at the University of London, Birkbeck College, and Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Košice. Prior to joining ZIP Citizenship, she worked for several years at an international law firm in London.
Zuzana speaks English and Slovak.
Lenka
Lenka is our Receptionist responsible for daily contact with potential clients and partners. Prior to joining ZIP Citizenship, she worked for several years in London, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Lenka speaks English and Slovak.
Janka
Janka is our Bratislava-based case handler, supporting clients throughout the administrative process and assisting them in their dealings with public authorities. She studied law in Bratislava (Mgr. and PhD) and Beijing (LL.M.). She also lectures at the Faculty of Law at Comenius University.
Janka speaks English and Slovak.
Laura
Laura is our Košice-based genealogy coordinator, working closely with genealogists and authorities on matters of evidence. She studied law in Košice (Mgr. and PhD) and in Budapest (LL.M.). She also lectures at the Faculty of Law at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University.
Laura speaks English and Slovak.
Who we work with
ZIP Team closely collaborates with a group of experienced genealogists from Slovakia, United States and other countries. Some of us are members of the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International. For instance, we collaborate with Michal Rázus, an experienced genealogist who has been helping clients with finding their ancestors for over a decade.
ZIP Citizenship works closely with a group of swift and experienced translators, such as Michal Orosz, who have translated thousands of pages of documents specifically for the Slovak citizenship process. All our translators are a fully registered with the Ministry of Justice.
‘Babka Approved’
While our team digs through the archives for your ancestors’ records, why not listen to the sound of your ancestors? We’ve curated the ‘Babka Approved’ playlist on Spotify — a mix of the folk songs she hummed in the kitchen and the modern hits she’d definitely call ‘too loud.’
Company
The legal services are provided by Martin Husovec – Counsel, s.r.o., a law firm, and all the remaining non-legal services by Zip Citizenship, s.r.o., a company registered with the Košice City Court. The team is based in Košice and Bratislava, Slovakia.
Work for Us
If you are interested in working for us, do let us know.