Italy’s Constitutional Court has signaled support for a controversial law restricting citizenship by descent, a move that could block millions of people abroad from claiming Italian nationality.
Doesn’t this also fuck you up if your kid is born outside of Italy? Like if you are an Italian couple and you happen to have a kid while living in Japan, then that kid has no citizenship anywhere? Am I misunderstanding this?
No that’s not the case, if either of your parents only has Italian citizenship then you get it by descent always. It’s only if neither parent has sole italianship and you are born abroad that you lose it. So the kid born it japan would have Italian citizenship unless one of the parents had japanese citizenship in which case they would have that instead
Doesn’t this also fuck you up if your kid is born outside of Italy? Like if you are an Italian couple and you happen to have a kid while living in Japan, then that kid has no citizenship anywhere? Am I misunderstanding this?
No that’s not the case, if either of your parents only has Italian citizenship then you get it by descent always. It’s only if neither parent has sole italianship and you are born abroad that you lose it. So the kid born it japan would have Italian citizenship unless one of the parents had japanese citizenship in which case they would have that instead