I was fascinated to read your article on the rights of Jewish children born between 1949 and 1969 to Czech parents who fled the Nazis to claim citizenship (Czechs urged to repeal law denying rights to Kindertransport descendants, 9 February). Coincidentally, as the article was published, paperwork for my passport was arriving from Prague: my Czech birth, marriage and nationality certificates. This has taken almost five years.
To obtain the right to Czech nationality, I had to take the government to court in Prague and, when it caved in, I received a call from the consulate in London to congratulate me on being the first person to successfully challenge the law.
