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Italy — Reacquiring Lost Citizenship
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This has to be settled before anything else, because reacquisition only exists for someone who actually held Italian citizenship and lost it. If you never held it, there is nothing to get back — and what you have instead is a claim by descent, which is a different application with different rules.
It is a more common confusion than it sounds. Being born to an Italian parent generally made you an Italian citizen from birth whether or not anyone registered it, so a great many people held it without ever knowing. Equally, many people assume they held it because the family said so, when the line had already broken a generation earlier.
What settles it is the sequence of dates: when each person in the line was born, and when each of them acquired another nationality. Until 15 August 1992 an Italian who took another citizenship lost the Italian one at that moment, and a child born after that point inherited nothing. A child born before it was Italian from birth and stayed so.
One date to be careful with, because it writes people off wrongly. What counts is the date on the naturalisation certificate, not the date of the first filing — and in the United States the gap between the declaration of intention and the certificate often ran five years or more. Families routinely remember the earlier date.
Send us the names, birth years and naturalisation dates you have, and we will tell you whether this is a reacquisition, a descent claim, or neither.