{"id":4981,"date":"2025-04-02T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:56:36","slug":"italy-ending-expansive-right-of-descent-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2025\/04\/02\/italy-ending-expansive-right-of-descent-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy ending expansive &#8220;right of descent&#8221; citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If, in some cases,  you had an Italian ancestor born after the 1860s, you could qualify for citizenship in Italy. Italy will limit the right of descent to requiring a parent or grand parent  &#8211; great- or great-great- grandparent connections will no longer quality. Persons with applications already submitted will be processed under the old rules. New applicants may also be required to demonstrate Italian language proficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/01\/travel\/italy-law-halts-citizenship-through-great-grandparents\/index.html\">Italy slams door on people hoping to claim citizenship through great-grandparents | CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy will allow right of descent ancestry only to those with a parent or grandparent from Italy; no more links to great- or great-great grandparent connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}