#italian-citizenship

#italian-citizenship

A new bill aims to make it significantly harder to obtain - or keep - Italian citizenship, with proposals ranging from testing knowledge of Italian culture to making it possible to leave people stateless. The hard-right, anti-immigration party presented the bill to the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, saying it believed Italians wanted tighter limits after a failed referendum in June on easing citizenship requirements. "Citizenship is a serious matter and must be treated as such," said Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, the League's leader.

Though he was born and raised in Brooklyn, the comedian favors Los Angeles when it comes to investing in real estate. The talk show host owns properties in the Hollywood Hills, where he maintains a compound comprised of two adjacent homes, and in Hermosa Beach, where he owns an additional pair of properties. If the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host ever decides to add an Italian villa to his real estate portfolio, it won't be too hard: He obtained Italian citizenship earlier this year,

Citizenship by descent is granted by "jus sanguinis," which is Latin for "right of blood." Until May 2025, people could get Italian citizenship if they had a great-grandparent who was born in Italy. However, the updated law dictates that the furthest you can go back now is to a grandparent. To be eligible, at least one of your grandparents had to have been born in Italy and not renounce their Italian citizenship or obtain citizenship in another country before their child (your parent) was a legal adult. If your parent was born prior to 1975, they were deemed an adult at age 21. If your parent was born in 1975 or later, they were deemed an adult at age 18.