Will have citizenship of a nation allows you to exercise all related rights: voting, studying, living, working or owning property in the national territory, without the need to request any authorizations.
For anyone born to at least one Italian parent or ancestor, obtaining Italian citizenship is an automatic process that occurs according to the rule of... jus sanguinis.
However, just as the citizenship can be acquired, It may also happen that it is lostFor various reasons or motives, regardless of the cause of the loss of Italian citizenship, however, it is always possible to apply for and regain it, provided the required conditions are met.
How Italian citizenship is lost
There are three ways in which Italian citizenship can be lost, and they are divided into:
- automatic loss, in the event that a citizen performs specific actions;
- loss for revocation;
- loss for voluntary resignation.
In general, Italian citizenship can always be recovered, but this process is contingent upon having a connection to Italy.
Automatic loss
A automatic loss Loss of Italian citizenship can occur for three distinct reasons:
- in the event of a public position being assumed by the citizen in a foreign State, a foreign public body or an international body in which Italy does not participate, or chooses to voluntarily enlist in a foreign army;
- in the event that, during the period of war, perform military service in an enemy state or, even during a period of war, acquire citizenship of an enemy State;
- by revocation through adoption. In Italy, those adopted by Italian citizens obtain Italian citizenship, however, if the adoption is revoked for reasons attributable to the adoptee, he or she will also lose Italian citizenship.
On the other hand, the status of citizenship is not lost in the case of double passports, as Italy is among the countries that allow this possibility.
Loss of Italian citizenship due to revocation
In the event of specific situations, citizenship can be revoked to citizens after definitive conviction for specific crimes, by decree of the President of the Republic.
This procedure takes place at the proposal of the Minister of the Interior, within three years of the final judgment of the conviction.
The anticipated infractions are:
- theft of goods or money seized;
- for having assisted or associated in crimes of illicit association, and association for the purposes of terrorism or subversion;
- Finally, Italian citizenship can be revoked in the case of a crime committed for the purpose of terrorism, subversion of the constitutional order, when the penalty is imprisonment equal to or greater than 5 years, up to a maximum of 10.
Renunciation of Italian citizenship
For different reasons, an Italian citizen can also choose to voluntarily renounce citizenship. This procedure is not granted to everyone, since, as a general rule, it is necessary to have the possibility of having a different citizenship once the Italian one has been renounced.
Those who can renounce their citizenship include:
- have residence in another state and are citizens of that same foreign State in which they have established their residence;
- that, having became Italian citizens by parents, are of legal age and have another citizenship;
- who got citizenship by adoption and had it revoked due to an unattributable fact. In this case, to renounce Italian citizenship, the subjects involved must be: adults, holders of another citizenship, and who expressly declare their renunciation within one year of the revocation.
How can you reacquire it
It's possible, once Italian citizenship has been renounced or lost, reacquiring it?
In general, yes, those who cannot reacquire it are, in fact, those who saw it revoked by the fact of their adoption or by having performed military service or public employment for a State with which Italy was at war, or by have chosen to become a citizen of that same nation, under the terms of article 13 of law 91/1992.
Italian citizenship can be reacquired in the following ways:
- declaring its intention to reacquire it and actually perform military service;
- Stating that you declare that you wish to reacquire it and are hired to public positions for the State, even abroad;
- if your residence in Italy is established or will be established within one year and you declare that you wish to reacquire your citizenship;
- after one year from the date of establishing residence in Italy, if you do not express your desire to resign within the same period;
- if, after having lost it following a failure to comply with an order to leave employment or an accepted position in a foreign State, a foreign public body or an international body, or military service for a foreign State, you declare that you wish acquire Italian nationality, as long as you prove that you left the position in question and established your residence in Italy for at least two years.
The reasons that may lead to the renunciation of Italian citizenship are diverse, as can happen in the case of acquiring citizenship by a foreign country that does not provide for the possession of two different passports. Renunciation, however, always allows it to be reacquired later, following the established rules.
