Italian citizenship and the jure sanguinis principle Italian citizenship law is primarily founded on the principle of jure sanguinis, meaning that citizenship is transmitted through bloodline rather than place of birth. As a general rule, a person born to at...
Law 74/2025 (conversion of Decree Law 36/2025) has introduced profound changes to the Italian citizenship recognition system by descent, imposing new limitations and requirements that exclude millions of people of Italian origin. This article highlights some...
Circolare 26185 dated May 28, 2025, from the Ministry of Interior was released, offering preliminary operational guidance for municipal civil status departments handling requests for Italian citizenship recognition (you can find the link at the bottom of this...
Italy has officially approved a new citizenship law that drastically changes the rules for jure sanguinis (citizenship by descent). The reform, started with Decree Law n. 36/2025, converted May 24 to Law 74/2025 narrows access to Italian citizenship for descendants of...
The Court ruled on the applicability ratione temporis and ratione personae of the recent Legislative Decree 36/2025 (not yet converted into law), with which the Government radically modified the conditions for the recognition of citizenship by blood descent. In a...
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