A great-grandparent or even a great-great grandparent from Italy used to be all it took to guarantee Italian citizenship. A surprise decree has now changed all that, making it much harder for those ...

The government says it tightened citizenship rules because of a deluge of applications from the descendants of emigrants who only coveted an Italian passport. By Patricia Mazzei Reporting from Rome ...

Italy's decision to tighten its citizenship rules, blocking applicants from getting recognized through their great-grandparents, has been "a real gut punch" for descendants of Italian migrants in the ...

CONEY ISLAND — The Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn successfully made its most recent CLE authentically and unequivocally Italian. “The Process of Acquiring Italian Citizenship Through Court ...

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