Italy citizenship: required documents
The documents you'll gather for Italy citizenship by descent, by route and by ancestor. Your exact list is generated from your lineage in the wizard.
Consulate Route
Assemble the documented chain to your Italian-born ancestor and apply for recognition (riconoscimento) at your consulate.
You
- •Birth certificate
Each ancestor in the chain
- •Birth certificate
- •Marriage certificate — if_married
- •Death certificate (if applicable) — if_deceased
- •Baptism / church record (if applicable)
- •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
- •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
- •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes
- •Additional Supporting Documents (if applicable)
Your qualifying ancestor
- •Birth certificate
- •Marriage certificate — if_married
- •Death certificate (if applicable) — if_deceased
- •Baptism / church record (if applicable)
- •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
- •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
- •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes
- •Full Naturalization Packet — if_immigrated
- •USCIS Certificate of Non-Existence (CONE)
- •NARA Letter of Negative Search
- •NARA Passenger Arrival Records (if applicable) — if_immigrated
1948 Judicial Route
For maternal-line cases before 1948 (and other judicial cases): a lawyer files a court petition in Italy. Adds the Italian court-filing documents.
You
- •Birth certificate
- •Power of Attorney (Procura)
- •Court Filing Fees
- •Ricorso (Court Petition)
- •Sentenza (Court Judgment)
- •Post-Judgment Registration
Each ancestor in the chain
- •Birth certificate
- •Marriage certificate — if_married
- •Death certificate (if applicable) — if_deceased
- •Baptism / church record (if applicable)
- •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
- •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
- •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes
- •Additional Supporting Documents (if applicable)
Your qualifying ancestor
- •Birth certificate
- •Marriage certificate — if_married
- •Death certificate (if applicable) — if_deceased
- •Baptism / church record (if applicable)
- •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
- •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
- •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes
- •Full Naturalization Packet — if_immigrated
- •USCIS Certificate of Non-Existence (CONE)
- •NARA Letter of Negative Search
- •NARA Passenger Arrival Records (if applicable) — if_immigrated
See if you qualify for Italy citizenship
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