How the Italian citizenship by descent works

IMMIGRANT SHIP "DOV HOZ" ARRIVING AT THE HAIFA    PORT FROM ITALY.אוניית המעפילים "דב הוז" מגיעה לנמל חיפה מאיטליה.

Source: Wikimedia Commons/Hans Pinn

The Italian citizenship is transmitted automatically by descent from father and mother if you are born after 1948. What happens then to applicants born before?


Hon Ricardo Merlo raised an issue regarding the rules for people born before 1948. Consul of Melbourne Pierluigi Trombetta clarifies how the rules work.


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