Italy Changes Law on Right to Claim Citizenship Through Great-Grandparents

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Italy changes citizenship law affecting those with great-grandparents

ITALY – Italy has implemented a new law impacting individuals seeking citizenship through their great-grandparents. The legislation, introduced in March by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government, officially went into effect on Tuesday. It restricts citizenship rights to those whose parents or grandparents were Italian. For those not eligible through ancestry, the only other pathway to

Italy changes law on right to claim citizenship through great-grandparents

Italy’s government has made it impossible for anyone to get Italian citizenship through their great-grandparents, dashing the hopes of those who have already paid money to start the process.

The Italian head of government wants to be on the front line and at the same time take a stand-alone approach – a complicated and conflicting approach that is currently quite isolated.

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Yesterday Parliament passed a decree-law that restricts it only to children and grandchildren.Radicating in Italy or the judicial system, the only alternatives.