OPENING OF TERMS FOR THE REACQUISITION OF ITALIAN CITIZENSHIP FOR FORMER CITIZENS STARTING FROM 1 JULY 2025
We inform the public that, starting from Tuesday 01/07/2025, it will be possible to submit the Declarations for the Reacquisition of Citizenship.
REACQUISITION of CITIZENSHIP for FORMER CITIZENS
Who are the beneficiaries? Those born in Italy or Italian citizens born abroad and resident in Italy for at least two consecutive years who lost their citizenship BEFORE August 15, 1992 in one of the following cases:
1) they voluntarily acquired a foreign citizenship before August 15, 1992 and established their residence abroad (Article 8, number 1°, of Law No. 555/1912);
2) having acquired a foreign citizenship without their own volition, they renounced Italian citizenship and established their residence abroad (Article 8, number 2°, of Law No. 555/1912);
3) being minor, unemancipated children of a person who has lost their citizenship, they had a common residence with their parent and have acquired the citizenship of a foreign country (Article 12 of Law No. 555/1912).
What documentation is necessary to present?
- valid identity document issued by Australia, necessary for the consular officer for identification;
- birth certificate, which in the case of those born abroad must be presented in the forms required for transcription in Italy, legalized (apostilled) and translated;
- only for those born abroad, historical certificate of residence proving residence in Italy for at least two consecutive years;
- historical certificate of citizenship proving previous possession of Italian citizenship;
- documentation to demonstrate the acquisition of foreign citizenship and, where applicable, the renunciation of Italian citizenship, such as the Australian naturalization certificate, proving the cause of the loss of Italian citizenship and the effective date of such loss – the documentation issued by foreign authorities must be appropriately legalized (apostilled) and translated.
Please note that, to prove the above, it will NOT be possible to use the substitute declarations referred to in Articles 46 and 47 of Presidential Decree 28 December 2000, no. 445.
NOTE:
- The declaration of intent to reacquire citizenship must be formal and made in person, at the Consular Office. Declaration forms will be provided on the day the application is submitted. These forms will be filled out in the presence of the consular officer. The presence of witnesses is not required. Also on the day of submitting the application, the applicant will be required to pay the consular fee of 250 euros at the counter, preferably through EFTPOS.
- The reacquisition of citizenship by a person residing abroad no longer automatically entails the acquisition of citizenship by the minor child living with said person, if resident abroad. For such acquisition (so-called communicatione iuris) it is now necessary for the minor child to be living with the parent who reacquires citizenship in Italy for at least two years prior to the reacquisition. Therefore, children residing abroad and born before the parent’s reacquisition of citizenship do not acquire Italian citizenship by virtue of said reacquisition. However, if the parent was originally an Italian citizen by birth, the child born before the re acquisition may acquire Italian citizenship by residing in Italy (Article 4, paragraph 1, letter c, or Article 9, paragraph 1, letter a, of Law No. 91/1992).
