I was born to US parents in Italy. I have an Italian birth certificate and a US citizen born abroad document. Does anyone have any resources on how Italian citizenship might work in this situation?
Edit: Sounds like 'maybe' is the answer. Maybe I should find a layer to consult further. Thanks everyone!
Posted Nov 10, 2016, 2:18 PM UTC · edited
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_nationality_law
It looks like they only offer a partial form of Jus Soli in that if you are born to stateless parents, unknown parents, or parents who cannot impart a statehood upon you at birth in Italy you gain citizenship. IANAL of course.
http://www.icapbridging2worlds.com/italian-dual-citizenship-services/descent-requirements/
Are any of your father's family Italian? Or complicatedly through your mother? This is so sad for me because my lineage is through my mom's side :<
When did your mother born? If she borned after 1948 you can get it
My moms dad is not Italian, but my grandma is. My grandma was born after 1948, but her parents were us citizens already. I thought that if grandma's folks had relinquished their Italian citizenship before her birth, then her lineage wasn't valid. Her brother Sal was born in Italy though, so his line would be eligible.
If I misunderstand the situation, then please let me know! It would be so fun to have dual citizenship!
I'm from Argentina, about 65% of our population have Italian (great)grandparents, so it's a pretty common thing for people to do the citizenship. I understand that you are eligible.
My mom's father was Argentine, he's grandfather was italian, my mom was born after 1948, I'm currently doing it. And I have cousin's that have done it
Ah, cool! I'll definitely have a look at it again.
I did not know that about Argentina. Interesting!
You should be able to. I was born in Australia, both my parents were born in Australia, but got Italian citizenship through my grandparents (all born in Italy). I have a European passport and everything, can't speak a word of Italian.
Consult with a lawyer and I think you'll be fine.
Italiancitizenship.freeforums.org may be able to answer some of your questions, though they focus more on citizenship by descent issues in particular. The information there helped me get my Italian passport finally this year after over a decade of legwork.
The US does not recognize dual citizenship so if any of your predecessors became US citizens and or YOU became a citizen, then you by default renounced your Italian citizenship.
Hahaha, good joke.
OP might have to give up US citizenship if the US doesn't allow dual citizenship
The US currently has no policy on dual citizenship. But with this new president ....who knows.
European south will fall first then Europe and then maybe USA but first Europe
Wtf are you talking about, at least stay on topic.
I know the timing looks like I'm upset about the election. I am, but I've wanted to claim citizenship for a long time now and my work might have opportunities that would be made easier by me being a EU citizen. Still, very scary.
You should be able to.
You can get Irish citizenship even if it's your grandparents who were born there. Think it's fairly similar over Europe. Know it for Germany too.
You have to demonstrate there's an unbroken link of citizenship (ie: no one renounced his Italian citizenship, no matter if they claimed it or not), which can be a rather tedious (and costly) process.
Example: if your grandpa emigrated from Italy, and your mother never claimed Italian citizenship, you may be eligible as long as neither of them did anything to explicitly renounce their citizenship.
Or marry an Italian citizen. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
Yeah, I was commenting for OP's sake. It's worth checking out. I know someone who got Swedish citizenship for being born there.
As for me, I've got an Irish passport, so it's a lot like a golden ticket !
Not sure this is completely accurate. Go to the forum that is listed above or check the Facebook group on dual citizenship with Italy. It's 3K+ members strong with lots of people who have gone through the process already who provide a ton of accurate advice.
In many countries it doesn't work like that - you take your citizenship from your parents not where you were born.