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Italy slams door on people hoping to claim citizenship through great-grandparents (www.cnn.com)

submitted 4 months ago by abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us to c/world@quokk.au

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A great-grandparent or even a great-great grandparent from Italy used to be all it took to guarantee Italian citizenship. A surprise decree has now changed all that, making it much harder for those with Italian ancestry to use blood line as a pathway to become Italian.
On March 28, the Italian government tightened regulations for claiming citizenship by jus sanguinis, or descendent blood line, effective immediately.

Basically you now need an Italian parent or a grandparent who was born in Italy, or an Italian parent who lived in Italy for at least two years before you were born, to be eligible. This is a major change to the citizenship law, and caught everyone by surprise.

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[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, especially that they just announced it with both immediate and retroactive effect, so no warning to those who were almost finished with the documents and ready to apply. I feel really bad for those who were just ready to apply on March 31st...

Good luck!