In this article the author analyzes the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in cases Genovese v. Malta (2012) and Ramadan v. Malta (2016), which were related to citizenship issues in the context of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of 1950 on the right to respect to private and family life (Art. 8) and the prohibition of discrimination (Art. 14) regarding either possession of citizenship or absence, modes of its acquisition or loss. It is important to emphasize that citizenship and basic modes of its either acquisition or termination is not directly foreseen to be regulated by the Convention. Therefore, both judgments of the ECtHR are supposed to be an important contribution to human rights protection in the context of citizenship. The author believes that both judgments of the ECtHR might be used as an effective instrument and legal basis for European states to review their national legislation on nationality in order to ensure and strengthen the idea of homocentrism in citizenship.