The Italian government anticipates that the administrative reform centralizing Italian citizenship recognition procedures in Rome will be fully implemented by 2029. jure sanguinisThe responsibility will be transferred to a body within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The change is part of a process that began with the approval of Law No. 74/2025 last weekAccording to the lawyer specializing in Italian citizenship, Luigi MinariThe reform is not merely an organizational adjustment, but a legislative design that acts to restrict effective rights.
Minari states that, for decades, the Italian state has not structured a system capable of guaranteeing the exercise of rights for descendants abroad. According to him, The multi-year waiting lists were created by the administration itself. act.
“Instead of correcting administrative inefficiency, the rules of law were altered, making the consequences of decades of accumulated state omission fall on the officeholders,” the lawyer stated.
Minari explains that the centralization in Rome is the second phase of this reform. He emphasizes that the new organization was designed to operate with a reduced number of applicants, based on the limitations imposed by... Law No. 74 / 2025.
One critical point raised by Minari is that this legislation is under challenge in the Constitutional Court. "The State creates a clear institutional risk: a possible declaration of unconstitutionality could be followed by a predictable administrative crisis," he warned.
The reform also ignores the role of municipalities, the so-called municipalitiesAccording to the lawyer, the transcription of civil status acts will continue to be the responsibility of these local structures, which already operate with serious limitations in terms of personnel and resources.
According to the expert, the goal of the change is not efficiency. "The absence of any structural intervention regarding the Comuni reveals that the objective of the reform is not to guarantee systemic efficiency, but only to control the number of recognitions," he stated.
Minari argues that the Italian judiciary must exercise its function independently. He contends that courts and administrative jurisdiction are essential for assessing excessive delays and the reasonableness of the transitional rules.
“If Italian citizenship by descent (jure sanguinis) is a right recognized by the legal system, the State has a duty to organize itself to guarantee it, and not to restrict it in order to make it manageable,” he concluded. The lawyer defines the state's stance not as reform, but as a renunciation.
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