Court appears to uphold law that will limit citizenship to children or grandchildren of Italian citizens. The parents or grandparents must have been Italian citizens – not dual citizens – at the time of the child’s birth.
Previously, Italy had a hugely expansive right of descent citizenship program, ended by the government in 2025.
Italy ruling tells millions with Italian roots they have lost the right to citizenship | CNN
Even the president of Argentina obtained Italian citizenship by descent.
Update: People who had expansive immigration privileges are now upset about this – These Italian Americans moved to Italy. Then Italy said they couldn’t stay | CNN
Most of us have no special immigration privileges.
Of the 4 featured families in the story
- 1 actually got Italian citizenship, directly contradicting the headline
- 1 did not get Italian citizenship but she qualifies for citizenship in Poland. Once you have EU citizenship, you can live anywhere in the EU.
- 1 is a freelance video editor who seemed to take years to get their paperwork together, and then got cut out.
- 1 is a poet and academic who ended up retuning to the U.S.
This is terrible journalism when half the story contradicts the headline!
It’s difficult to feel badly for these global elite – or CNN’s spinning this into a sob story.