• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    EDIT: see end of comment

    If you have any traceable Italian citizenship it is possible to claim Italian citizenship. Even like great-great-great-great-grandparents. But thereā€™s a lot of asterisks involved. There are offices that specialize in this that might help (for a fee).

    But if you DO qualify and get all the paperwork and get an appointment and approved, you get full citizenship immediately. Italy always considered you a citizen since birth but did not know about you.

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    Italy put a stop to this like, a few days ago. Damn. Now itā€™s maximum grandparents. https://www.imidaily.com/europe/italy-adopts-decree-restricting-citizenship-by-descent/

    Shouldā€™ve figured with all the anti-immigrant sentiment this would be ending soon.

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      It has 60 days to be approved by parliament and thereā€™s a lot of squawking about it being unconstitutional by immigration attorneys. As gross as it is, the more nationalist fucks are also against it for fairly racist reasons. They canā€™t stand the idea of Muslims getting citizenship before anyone else šŸ¤®

      Iā€™m hoping if it does pass, itā€™ll still leave a route to citizenship for Italian descendants. We were literally getting ready to file when this dropped.