Your result
Italy — Citizenship by Descent
Unlikely
This is the gap the courts have not closed. The reform protects your claim if the application was lodged, or if a consulate or comune had already given you an appointment, by 23:59 on 27 March 2025. It says nothing about someone who was in the queue and never got a slot — and in 2024 and 2025 the wait in some districts ran to years, so the difference between protected and not was often the consulate's backlog rather than anything you did.
When the Constitutional Court upheld the reform in 2026, it stopped short of ruling on this situation and deliberately left it open. Since then the same court has sent Article 3-bis itself to the Court of Justice of the European Union, so the ground under the whole reform is moving while your argument sits on top of it. Either way this is an argument rather than a right, and one made in court rather than at a consulate.
Whether it is worth making comes down almost entirely to proof of the attempt: dated screenshots of the booking system, emails from the consulate, a Prenot@Mi account history, a ticket or reference number. A clear, dated trail is a real case. A recollection is not.
Send us what you kept from that period and we will give you a straight read. If the trail is thin, the honest answer is that this is a long shot, and the residence routes are the more realistic road — two years of legal residence in Italy rather than ten, for someone with an Italian parent or grandparent who was a citizen by birth.