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What is the court for the Italian citizenship process

Which court is competent to judge the action for recognition of Italian citizenship?

Italianism helps you find out which court is competent to judge the action for recognition of Italian citizenship, based on the municipality of birth of your Italian ancestor.

Write the city of birth of your Italian ancestor in the field above to find out which court has jurisdiction.

With the change in the law of Code of Civil Procedure In Italy, the Court of Rome is no longer the only one to judge requests from... Italian citizenship via court (against consulate queues) or maternal route (when the woman gave birth to the child before 1948).

Since June 22, 2022, applications for recognition of Italian citizenship have been made in the court of the capital of the region in which one resides. Italian ancestor he was born ("regional capoluogo

The Court of Ancona, for example, judges the actions of applicants whose Italian ancestors were born in a city in the provinces of Ancona, Ascoli Piceno or Fermo.

See below which courts are responsible for judging Italian citizenship cases, whether through maternal lineage or by avoiding the long waiting lists at Italian consulates in Brazil:

Ancona Court

  • Ancona (AN)
  • Ascoli Piceno (AP)
  • Stationary (FM)
  • Macerata (MC)
  • Pesaro and Urbino (PU)
  • In addition to the municipality of Valle Castellana, in the Abruzzo Region

Bari Court

  • Bari (BA)
  • Barletta-Andria-Trani (BT)
  • Foggia (FG)

Bologna Court

  • Bologna (BO)
  • Ferrara (FE)
  • Forlì-Cesena (FC)
  • Modena (MO)
  • Parma (PR)
  • Piacenza (PC)
  • Ravenna (RA)
  • Reggio Emilia (RE)
  • Rimini (RN)

Brescia Court

  • Bergamo (Bergamo)
  • Brescia (BS)
  • Cremona (CR)
  • Mantua (MN)

Cagliari Court

  • Cagliari (CA)
  • Nuoro (NU)
  • Oristano (OR)
  • Sassari (SS)
  • Southern Sardinia (SU)

Caltanissetta Court

  • Caltanissetta (CL)
  • Enna (EN)

Campobasso Court

  • Campobasso (CB)
  • Isernia (IT)

Catania Court

  • (CT)
  • Ragusa (RG)
  • Syracuse (SR)

Catanzaro Court

  • Catanzaro (CZ)
  • Cosenza
  • Croton (KR)
  • Vibo Valentia (VV)

Firenze Court

  • Arezzo (AR)
  • Florence (FI)
  • Grosseto (GR)
  • Leghorn (LI)
  • Lucca (LU)
  • Pisa (PI)
  • Pistoia (PT)
  • Prato (PO)
  • Siena (SI)

Genova Court

  • Genoa (GE)
  • Imperia
  • La Spezia (SP)
  • Savona (SV)
  • Massa-Carrara (MS) – Even though it is located in Tuscany, it is part of the jurisdiction of Genova

Court of L'Aquila

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  • L'Aquila (AQ)
  • Pescara (PE)
  • Teramo (TE)

Lecce Court

  • Brindisi (BR)
  • Lecce (LE)
  • Taranto (TA)

Court of Messina

  • Messina (ME)

Milano Court

  • Como (CO)
  • Lecco (LC)
  • praise (LO)
  • Milano (MI)
  • Monza and Brianza (MB)
  • Pavia (PV)
  • Sondrio (SO)
  • Varese (VA)

Napoli Court

  • Avellino (AV)
  • Benevento (BN)
  • Caserta (EC)
  • (NA)

Palermo Court

  • Agrigento (AG)
  • Palermo (PA)
  • Trapani (TP)

Court of Perugia

  • Perugia
  • Terni (TR)

Court of Potenza

  • Matera (MT)
  • Power (PZ)
  • In addition to the Municipalities of the Campania Region: Sala Consilina, Atena Lucana, Padula, Caggiano, Auletta, Pertosa, Salvitelle, Montesano sulla Marcellana, Casalbuono, Polla, San Pietro al Tanagro, San Rufo, Sant'Arsenio, Sanza, Buonabitacolo, Caselle in Pittari , Morigerati, Teggiano, Monte San Giacomo, Sassano, Vibonati, Casaletto Spartano, Ispani, Santa Marina, Sapri, Torraca, Tortorella.

Court of Reggio Calabria

  • Reggio Calabria (RC)

Court of Rome

  • Frosinone (FR)
  • (LT)
  • Rieti (RI)
  • Rome Capitale (RM)
  • Viterbo (VT)

Salerno Court

  • Salerno (SA)

Turin Court

  • Alexandria (AL)
  • Asti (AT)
  • Biella (BI)
  • Wedge (CN)
  • Novara (NO)
  • Torino (TO)
  • Verbano Cusio Ossola (VB)
  • Vercelli (Vercelli)
  • Aosta (AO)

Court of Trent

  • Bozen (BZ)
  • Trento (TN)
  • In addition to the Municipalities of the Province of Brescia di Magasa and Valvestino

Court of Venice

  • Belluno (BL)
  • Padua (PD)
  • Rovigo (RO)
  • Treviso (TV)
  • Venice (VE)
  • Verona (VR)
  • Vicenza (VI)
  • In addition to the Municipalities of the Friuli Region: Sappada and Erto and Casso.

Trieste Court

  • Gorizia (GO)
  • Pordenone (PN)
  • Trieste (TS)
  • Udine (UD)
  • In addition to the Municipalities of the Veneto Region: Annone Veneto, Caorle, Cinto Caomaggiore, Concordia Sagittaria, Fossalta di Portogruaro, Gruaro, Portogruaro, Pramaggiore, San Michele al Tagliamento, San Stino di Livenza and Teglio Veneto.
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Search courts by jurisdiction

The Italianismo portal allows you to search for the competent court based on the Italian's city of birth – Italy has 7.915 cities.

At the beginning of this article, type the name of the city (common) where your Italian ancestor was born and the name of the competent court will appear. It will be in this court that your action will be judged.

How to check the progress of the Italian citizenship process in court

The application has been sent to Italy; it's time to follow the Italian citizenship recognition process through the Italian court's app. The app is installed, and this is when several questions arise.

Blessed Citizenship[Company Name], a company specializing in Italian citizenship recognition cases in Italian courts, has prepared a list of the main statuses and an article explaining how it works. application "Giustizia Civile".

UNDERSTANDING THE ITALIAN COURT APPLICATION

The first part (part fascicolo) has the initials of the names of the plaintiffs and the lawyer. The full name cannot be displayed due to the General Data Protection Law (Regulation 2016/679 EU).

In the second block, however, there is general information about the action, such as case number, registration date and court.

The type of action appears on the third tab and, on the fourth tab, the name of the designated magistrate. 

In “Storico Fascicolo”, Sign up for general boy is the date it was filed. 

All other movements are published here.

WHAT DOES EACH SENTENCE OR STATEMENT MEAN?

The main statuses in Italian court app are in alphabetical order. See what they mean:

  • Total accommodation

It means that all terms of the initial petition were accepted. In other words, a sentence completely favorable to the recognition of Italian citizenship. It's time to open a bottle of wine and celebrate!

  • Annotation

Some new information has been added to the action. It can be a document added by the lawyer or court clerks.

  • Anticipate audio

It means the hearing was brought forward. It may be due to justified needs on the part of the party or the defender, or simply to adapt the judge's agenda.

  • Opening sub-procedure for material error correction

This is a procedure for correcting a material error, a correction in the sentence, for example.

  • Assign the section

Assignment to the section that will handle the case. After the protocol is filed, the court clerks analyze the jurisdiction based on the nature of the action and direct the case to the appropriate court. In the case of Italian citizenship, the court is the “Diritti della Cittadinanza”.

  • Automatically assign the department

Automatically designated the session that will take care of the registered action.

  • I don't code

A second deposit of documents was done manually.

  • Grant authorization for consultation of the fascico

Authorized access to the electronic file for the non-established party.

  • Correzione unified contribution and value cause

Correction of costs and action value.

  • Constitution part

It means that the defendant was involved in the process. In the case of Italian citizenship, it is the Ministero Dell'interno contesting the Brazilian Grand Naturalization, for example.

  • Non-codified deposit

It means that a new document was deposited in the progress of the action. It could be a memo, a missing certificate or an adjustment in the defense.

  • Memory deposit

It is the deposit of the defense argument made, in writing, by the client's lawyer. Written (non-face-to-face) hearings were instituted at the beginning of the pandemic and continue to do so today.

  • Deposit draft final sentence

It means that you are awaiting the publication of the sentence.

  • Automatic giudice designation

The judge who will judge the action was chosen automatically by the system, through an electronic draw.

  • Management designation

The magistrate who will judge the action has been chosen.

  • Audience deferral

This means that the hearing has been requested to be postponed. It can be a request from the defense, the judge or the opposing party.

  • Funding for sharing

A hearing date was set for the parties to appear. It is not necessary for the client to be present at the hearing. He will be represented by the appointed lawyer, who has the power of attorney to represent the client at all stages of the process.

  • Fissazione udienza di correzione errore materiale

A new hearing date was set to correct material errors, such as names, surnames, dates, among others.

  • Subscribe to general street

Date on which the Court's general registration number was entered. It is accompanied by the process number, also known as “RG”. With it you can follow the main statuses in Italian court app. It is on this date that the court clerk downloads our petition and the submitted procedural documents.

  • Invio atti all'Agenzia delle Entrate

It means that the acts were sent to the Inland Revenue, the Italian federal agency (similar to the Federal Revenue of Brazil) for registration procedure.

  • Passage in archive

Case archived. There will be no more movement in the judiciary, but only bureaucratic issues will be demanded.

  • Transmission at the court of Appealo

“Transmission of documents to the Court of Appeal”. This means that the opposing party, in this case the lawyer from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, appealed. The main contention is the Brazilian Grand Naturalization.

  • Reserve

The process meets with the magistrate for the eventual delivery of an order or publication of the sentence, in Brazil, the term is known as “concluded records”.

  • Rinvio ad further audience of comparison

The investigating judge requested, at the party's request or ex officio, a new investigative hearing.

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