Hi! Sorry if I can’t write this post in Italian, I learnt Italian in school but didn’t have the occasion to practice for more than a decade… thus I’m more than a little rusted! But I still understand, if you accept that I answer in English you can answer me in Italian.

Yesterday, I learnt that my great-grandfather, who flew fascism and came to France, never became French. Thus, if I understand correctly what I have read, my grandfather, as the son of an Italian, was Italian, even if he never asked for his nationality to be recognized. And this nationality comes further to me.

Does it actually works like that? If I prove that my great-grandfather was Italian when my grandfather was born, could I acquire the Italian nationality?

  • Zloubida@lemmy.worldOP
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    29 days ago

    Graziemille per la tua risposta!

    My great-grandfather died before the birth of my mother, his granddaughter. However I understand this:

    attestare che né l’istante né gli ascendenti hanno mai rinunciato alla cittadinanza italiana interrompendo la catena di trasmissione della cittadinanza, mediante appositi certificati rilasciati dalle competenti Autorità diplomatico consolari italiane.

    as the idea that, as long as none of my ancestors renounced their Italian nationality, they are considered Italian even if they never had an Italian ID. If my interpretation is correct, my “avo italiano” is my mother.