Italy’s highest court has ruled that children born with Italian citizenship do not automatically lose it when a parent later ...

Italy’s “minor issue,” which blocked the path to citizenship for thousands around the globe, has been abolished by the ...

For millions of people across Brazil, Argentina, the United States, and beyond, the dream of claiming Italian citizenship ...

Here are four European countries that offer citizenship by descent.

For more than a century, a great-grandparent’s birth certificate from a small town in Calabria or Veneto was often enough to open the door to an Italian passport. That door slammed shut for millions ...

Rome (CNN) — The Italian government has this week enacted a law that makes it impossible for anyone to get Italian citizenship through their great-grandparents, dashing the hopes of those who have ...

Every month for nearly three years, Jerry Lombardo and his wife had set aside part of their paychecks toward their dream of moving to Italy to start a business. A fresh start, Lombardo hoped, would be ...

Italy has announced the four ways foreigners can apply for Italian citizenship. The special conditions for children were also ...

(CNN) — The Italian diaspora continued the fight against the government’s restrictions on citizenship by descent this week, as three cases were scrutinized by Italy’s supreme court. On Tuesday, the ...

(CNN) — Since Italy became a country in 1861, there has been a surefire way to know who is and isn’t an Italian citizen: look at their parents. The first page of the civil code, published in 1865 as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how migration affects European society and economies. A measure presented to Italians via referendum, to reduce the ...