{"id":114206,"date":"2026-04-24T13:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/after-italian-law-change-americans-hope-supreme-court-ruling-will-reopen-door-to-citizenship-italy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:59:35","slug":"after-italian-law-change-americans-hope-supreme-court-ruling-will-reopen-door-to-citizenship-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/after-italian-law-change-americans-hope-supreme-court-ruling-will-reopen-door-to-citizenship-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"After Italian law change, Americans hope supreme court ruling will reopen door to citizenship | Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:500\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">I<\/span>n 2025, after a long and arduous journey in her attempts to gain Italian citizenship, including a pivotal genealogical research trip to a village in Calabria, US-born Sabrina Crawford was hoping to fulfil her lifelong dream of building a life in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/italy\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Italy<\/a> as she edged towards the final hurdle of the bureaucratic process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But her plans were scuppered when Giorgia Meloni\u2019s far-right government enacted a law stopping access to Italian citizenship via distant ancestry. Since May last year, only those with a parent or grandparent who was an Italian citizen at birth, and who did not take on dual nationality, are eligible to apply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Crawford, from the San Francisco Bay area, was waiting for one crucial document proving that her Italian great-grandfather had not become a US citizen before submitting her application when the new rules were announced out of the blue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"c613d2f5-b99a-40af-8a78-2afd25f3ecb4\" data-spacefinder-role=\"supporting\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-a2pvoh\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-9ktzqp\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Sabrina Crawford, from the San Francisco Bay area, has travelled to Italy to prove her heritage.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt was as if the sky collapsed,\u201d she said. \u201cThis horrible news really upended all of my plans, all of my hopes, all of my goals. It broke my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Crawford is now counting on Italy\u2019s supreme court to deliver a favourable outcome to a legal challenge presented by two US families arguing that the law should only apply to those born after it was enacted. A supreme court panel is expected to make its decision in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The legislation, which breaks with the longstanding tradition of welcoming the descendants of Italy\u2019s huge global diaspora, was aimed at clamping down on those claiming tenuous links to the country in order to obtain a powerful Italian passport, and to clear the backlog in local councils and consulates, which for years have been overwhelmed by citizenship requests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe believe that granting citizenship is a serious matter and should be reserved for those with a genuine connection to our nation,\u201d said Meloni shortly after the law was approved in parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It appears to have stemmed from several contentious cases, including allegations in 2024 that the Italian consulate in Venezuela illegally granted citizenship to five members of Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia group and political party backed by Iran. The deputy prime minister, Antonio Tajani, also justified it by claiming that Black Friday-style discount deals were being offered on Italian citizenship in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But the move has had serious consequences for thousands of legitimate requests, especially from the US, Brazil and Argentina, where millions of Italians emigrated in the 19th and early 20th centuries to escape poverty.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"a9961b67-764e-4d45-8c7f-0b667ad7bfa5\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-fd61eq\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Marco Mellone is representing two US families in the supreme court case.<\/span> Photograph: Gregorio Borgia\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In March, Italy\u2019s constitutional court ruled that the law was valid, but the supreme court has the power to clarify its scope, said Marco Mellone, the lawyer representing the two US families in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Mellone argues that the law should not apply retroactively and that his clients are invoking their rights enshrined in the legal principle of <em>ius sanguinis<\/em>, Latin for \u201cright of blood\u201d, which allows anyone who can prove ancestry after Italy\u2019s formation in 1861 to seek citizenship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThis is a crucial point, and the main reason we consider this law to be absolutely unconstitutional and unfair,\u201d said Mellone. \u201cIt touches on a [citizenship] right at the time of birth and so it should not be applied retroactively.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.NewsletterSignupBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\"><gu-island name=\"EmailSignUpWrapper\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"visible\" props=\"{&quot;index&quot;:14,&quot;listId&quot;:4234,&quot;identityName&quot;:&quot;this-is-europe&quot;,&quot;category&quot;:&quot;article-based-legacy&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;The most pressing stories and debates for Europeans \u2013 from identity to economics to the environment&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;This is Europe&quot;,&quot;frequency&quot;:&quot;Weekly&quot;,&quot;successDescription&quot;:&quot;We'll send you This is Europe every week&quot;,&quot;theme&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;illustrationSquare&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/media.guim.co.uk\/89503d5a5e8719056c4f5e70ffc1bc566b8ca1a4\/0_0_3000_3000\/3000.jpg&quot;,&quot;idApiUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/idapi.theguardian.com&quot;,&quot;hideNewsletterSignupComponentForSubscribers&quot;:true,&quot;showNewsletterSignupCard&quot;:false}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Citizenship has always been a thorny topic in Italy, and even though the number of children born in the country to immigrant parents has been rising sharply they are still denied birthright citizenship. A referendum last year on easing the rules failed because of low turnout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Citing recent data from Eurostat forecasting that by the end of the century Italy\u2019s population will fall to 44 million compared with roughly 59 million today, Mellone said neither of these obstacles to citizenship were helping the government tackle what Meloni has described as Italy\u2019s \u201cdemographic winter\u201d. \u201cThey say no to children born in Italy to immigrants and no to those born to Italian emigrants,\u201d he said. \u201cThe demographic decline is dramatic. Who will be the Italian citizens of the future?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Crawford, 50, who for several years lived and worked in Italy, albeit on temporary visas, started her citizenship procedure in 2018. She is Italian from her mother\u2019s side but could not follow the maternal descent route through her consulate owing to an old law preventing Italian women born before 1 January 1948 from transmitting citizenship to their children. Instead, she had to trace an unbroken line of descent to her great-grandfather, who was born in the Calabrian village of Verbicaro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">That involved a trip to the village where, by a stroke of luck, a local priest and historian helped her dig through archives to confirm her ancestor\u2019s name, which in turn enabled her to obtain his birth certificate. Many other bureaucratic hurdles ensued, but Crawford persevered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If the supreme court ruling goes in her favour, she will be able to pursue her application through a court in Catanzaro, Calabria. \u201cI hope there\u2019s still a ray of hope for people like me who have invested so much time and energy into this,\u201d she said, adding that she grew up surrounded by Italian relatives. \u201cI always knew that I wanted to make my life in Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Jennifer Daley, a historian from Kansas whose case Mellone is also representing, has been through a similar ordeal over the past 10 years. \u201cThis has been a long journey, but I have hope that justice will prevail,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/24\/italy-citizenship-law-change-us-citizens-supreme-court\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, after a long and arduous journey in her attempts to gain Italian citizenship, including a pivotal genealogical research trip to a village in Calabria, US-born Sabrina Crawford was hoping to fulfil her lifelong dream of building a life in Italy as she edged towards the final hurdle of the bureaucratic process. 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