Decree Law No. 36 of 28 March 2025 has introduced substantial amendments to the right to Italian citizenship by descent (\u201cIUS SANGUINIS\u201d), as established by Law No. 91 of 1992. Previously, individuals born to or descended from an Italian citizen\u2014even across generations\u2014retained the right to citizenship recognition, regardless of birthplace or residence, with no generational limits. Proof of an unbroken lineage (without naturalization or voluntary renunciation) sufficed.<\/p>\n
Law No. 74\/2025 radically changes this framework.<\/p>\n
Under the new Article 3-bis added to Law No. 91\/1992, individuals born abroad holding another citizenship are deemed to have \u201cnever acquired Italian citizenship,\u201d unless they meet one of the following strictly defined conditions:<\/p>\n
(*) If a parent or grandparent holds \u2014 or held at the time of death \u2014 exclusively Italian citizenship as of the applicant\u2019s date of birth, click here<\/strong><\/a> to consult the required documentation.<\/p>\n (**) If the Italian-citizen parent (residence in Italy prior to the acquisition of Italian citizenship cannot be considered, nor can be considered the residence in Italy of the foreign parent.) resided in Italy for at least two consecutive years after acquiring Italian citizenship and before the child\u2019s date of birth, click here<\/a><\/strong> to consult the required documentation.<\/p>\n Self-certifications regarding the absence of other citizenships are not accepted.<\/p>\n Procedure<\/strong><\/p>\n Applications for the recognition of citizenship by descent must be submitted at the applicant\u2019s place of residence. On the day of the appointment, the applicant must present all documents in original, duly legalised and translated into Italian.<\/p>\n The Office reserves the right to request additional proof or supporting documents upon review of the application. All original documents submitted are not subject to expiry and will not be returned.<\/p>\n Applications for citizenship by descent (iure sanguinis) are subject to a non-refundable administrative fee of 600 EUR, payable in the local currency on the day of the appointment.<\/p>\n Please note that the fee is non-refundable and applies regardless of the application result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Decree Law No. 36 of 28 March 2025 has introduced substantial amendments to the right to Italian citizenship by descent (\u201cIUS SANGUINIS\u201d), as established by Law No. 91 of 1992. Previously, individuals born to or descended from an Italian citizen\u2014even across generations\u2014retained the right to citizenship recognition, regardless of birthplace or residence, with no generational […]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":203,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5672","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5672"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7450,"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5672\/revisions\/7450"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshongkong.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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