{"id":4939,"date":"2025-11-06T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambbeirut.esteri.it\/?page_id=4939"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:53:16","slug":"acquisition-of-citizenship-by-minor-children-living-with-a-parent-who-is-not-a-citizen-by-birth-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ambbeirut.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero\/cittadinanza\/acquisition-of-citizenship-by-minor-children-living-with-a-parent-who-is-not-a-citizen-by-birth-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquisition of Citizenship by Minor Children Living with a Parent Who Is Not a Citizen by Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article 14 of Law No. 91\/1992, as amended by Decree-Law No. 36\/2025 and converted into Law No. 74\/2025, provides that in order to acquire citizenship through this procedure, the child of a parent who is an Italian citizen\u00a0<strong>not by birth<\/strong>\u00a0must have been legally residing in Italy for\u00a0<strong>at least two consecutive years<\/strong>\u00a0at the time the parent acquires or reacquires Italian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>If the child is under the age of two, they must have been legally resident in Italy since birth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Specifically:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the application for recognition of citizenship\u00a0<em>iure communicatione<\/em>\u00a0falls within the exceptions identified in letters a), a-bis) or b) of Article 3-bis of Law No. 91\/1992 (i.e., an administrative or judicial application submitted by 27 March 2025, or an application submitted through an appointment scheduled by that same date), the\u00a0<strong>previous legal framework<\/strong>\u00a0will apply.<\/li>\n<li>If the application for recognition of citizenship\u00a0<em>iure communicatione<\/em>\u00a0is submitted\u00a0<strong>on or after 28 March 2025<\/strong>, the parent transmitting citizenship must either be exclusively an Italian citizen or must have resided in Italy for at least two years prior to the child\u2019s birth.<\/li>\n<li>If the parent acquires or reacquires Italian citizenship\u00a0<strong>on or after 24 May 2025<\/strong>, the child living with the parent must have been legally residing in Italy for at least\u00a0<strong>two years prior<\/strong>\u00a0to the parent\u2019s naturalization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this case,\u00a0<u>the\u00a0<strong>competent authority<\/strong>\u00a0for verifying the child\u2019s acquisition of citizenship will be the Italian Municipality<\/u>\u00a0(<em>Comune<\/em>) of residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Article 14 of Law No. 91\/1992, as amended by Decree-Law No. 36\/2025 and converted into Law No. 74\/2025, provides that in order to acquire citizenship through this procedure, the child of a parent who is an Italian citizen\u00a0not by birth\u00a0must have been legally residing in Italy for\u00a0at least two consecutive years\u00a0at the time the parent [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":208,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4939","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambbeirut.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambbeirut.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambbeirut.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambbeirut.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambbeirut.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ambbeirut.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/ambbeirut.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4939\/revisions\/4942"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambbeirut.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambbeirut.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}