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🇮🇹Last verified August 22, 2026

Italy citizenship through a great-great-grandparent

Closed under the 2025 law

Claims this deep were possible before 2025 with an unbroken chain; they are now outside administrative recognition entirely, and even judicial routes face long odds.

The Rules That Decide It

  • Law 74/2025 two-generation limit applies; the Constitutional Court declined to strike it down (Sentenza 63/2026).

  • Only pre-decree filings and exceptional judicial arguments (EU-law, prior-intent) remain.

What To Do Next

  1. 01

    Check other ancestral lines — Poland, Croatia, and Hungary have no generational limits.

  2. 02

    If you have a pre-March-2025 filing, it continues under the old rules.

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