{"id":6678,"date":"2026-03-21T05:28:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2026-03-28T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:20:00","slug":"italy-ends-most-of-its-right-of-descent-ancestry-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2026\/03\/21\/italy-ends-most-of-its-right-of-descent-ancestry-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy ends most of its right of descent ancestry program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 &#8211; not dual citizens &#8211; at the time of the child&#8217;s birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, Italy had a hugely expansive right of descent citizenship program, ended by the government in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260314045249\/https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/14\/travel\/italy-citizenship-law-restrictions-constitutional-court\">Italy ruling tells millions with Italian roots they have lost the right to citizenship | CNN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the president of Argentina obtained Italian citizenship by descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: People who had expansive immigration privileges are now upset about this &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/28\/travel\/italian-citizenship-stuck-in-italy\">These Italian Americans moved to Italy. Then Italy said they couldn\u2019t stay | CNN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of us have no special immigration privileges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 4 featured families in the story<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 actually got Italian citizenship, directly contradicting the headline<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 is a freelance video editor who seemed to take years to get their paperwork together, and then got cut out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 is a poet and academic who ended up retuning to the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is terrible journalism when half the story contradicts the headline!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to feel badly for these global elite &#8211; or CNN&#8217;s spinning this into a sob story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is eligible for Italian right of descent citizenship is now sharply curtailed.<\/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-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678","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=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6697,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions\/6697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}