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.
Our mission: Zipping the threads of heritage.
Why we built ZIP Citizenship as a full-service team
Getting Slovak citizenship by descent touches three very different worlds: genealogy, law, and administration. 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. The result is a team that speaks to each other — not a group of specialists you have to manage yourself.
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
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 and Rusyns born in the areas around Snina, Košice, and Pennsylvania (United States).
- Lucia speaks Slovak, English, German and a little bit of Spanish.
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, 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 a little bit of Spanish.
Our two skilful assistants, Iffy and Laura, help us with the different parts of the process. Iffy is a personal assistant to Lucia, and Laura is a young lawyer doing her PhD at the moment.
ZIP Citizenship closely collaborates with an experienced genealogist, Mgr. Michal Rázus, a member of the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International. Michal has been helping clients with finding their ancestors for over a decade. His ability to find nuggets of information or important documents is widely recognised by his former clients. Michal is based in Prešov.
ZIP Citizenship also relies on a swift and experienced translator, Mgr. Michal Orosz, who is a fully registered translator with the Ministry of Justice. Michal is based in Košice.
Legal
The service is provided by Beehive Services, s.r.o., a company registered with the Košice City Court. The team is based in Košice, Slovakia.
While you wait, travel back in time 🎵
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.’