Law 74/2025: What Parliament Added When It Made the Citizenship Reform Permanent
On May 23, 2025, Italy converted D.L. 36/2025 into permanent law. The conversion added provisions for minors and a limited reacquisition window for former citizens, but left the core two-generation limit and retroactive mechanism intact.
D.L. 36/2025: The Tajani Decree That Changed Italian Citizenship Overnight
On March 28, 2025, Italy issued Decree-Law 36/2025, imposing a two-generation limit on citizenship by descent and retroactively declaring millions of people to have never been Italian citizens. Here’s what the decree says, how it works, and why it’s being challenged.
The Bologna Referral: The First Constitutional Challenge to Unlimited Ius Sanguinis
On November 26, 2024, a Bologna judge questioned for the first time whether unlimited Italian citizenship by descent was constitutional. Milan, Florence, and Rome followed. The Constitutional Court’s response would become an unexpected weapon for citizenship rights.
The Minor Issue: How a 2024 Ministry Circular Upended Italian Citizenship for Millions of Descendants
On October 3, 2024, Italy’s Ministry of the Interior issued Circular No. 43347, adopting a stricter interpretation of the 1912 citizenship law that affects an estimated 60-70% of Italian-American families. Here’s what happened, why it matters, and what comes next.
Cassazione Sentenza 14194/2024: You Don’t Need a Birth Certificate to Prove Italian Descent
The Court of Cassation has ruled that a birth certificate is not the only way to prove Italian descent. Sentenza 14194/2024 establishes a multi-level proof system for filiation, opening alternatives for families with missing 19th-century records.
Italy Raises the Cost of Judicial Citizenship Cases to 600 Euros Per Applicant
Italy has tripled the court filing fee for citizenship cases to 600 euros per applicant. The increase adds a significant financial barrier to the judicial route used by tens of thousands of descendants.
Cassazione Order 454/2024 Confirms: A Father’s Naturalization Broke the Citizenship Chain for Minor Children
Cassazione Order 454/2024 confirms the strict reading of the 1912 citizenship law: when an Italian citizen naturalized while their children were minors, those children lost Italian citizenship. The ruling cements a position that will soon affect hundreds of thousands of applications.
Four Italian Courts Ask the Constitutional Court: Is Unlimited Citizenship by Descent Constitutional?
Four Italian courts have referred the same question to the Constitutional Court: is unlimited citizenship by descent constitutional? The referrals from Bologna, Milan, Florence, and Rome mark the first formal judicial challenge to jure sanguinis as practiced for 160 years.
Cassazione Order 17161/2023: The First Signal That the Minor Issue Was About to Reshape Italian Citizenship
Cassazione Order 17161/2023 adopted a strict reading of the 1912 citizenship law, holding that children automatically lost Italian citizenship when their father naturalized. This affects an estimated 60-70% of Italian-American families seeking citizenship by descent.