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 Corte di Cassazione, Italy’s highest court, met to evaluate citizenship restrictions for descendants of Italian citizens born abroad that were imposed by the government in October 2024.
The so-called ‘minor issue,’ introduced via a government circular, preceded the controversial March 2025 law change which cut citizenship by descent to two generations and effectively banned dual citizenship for Italians abroad.
It stipulated that if a parent of an Italian child born abroad naturalized…