Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tourists look out from a hillside in Vernazza in the Cinque Terre National Park, near La Spezia, Italy. - Marco ...

When Italy issued a decree to change its citizenship by descent rule last spring, in a move that shut the door to thousands of Americans with ancestors in the “Bel Paese,” Pennsylvania resident Jess ...

Citizenship is one of the most consequential legal statuses a person can hold, and the gap between the easiest and hardest ...

ROME (CNN) — A great-grandparent or even a great-great grandparent from Italy used to be all it took to guarantee Italian citizenship. A surprise decree has now changed all that, making it much harder ...

Since Italy became a country in 1861, there has been a surefire way to know who is and isn’t an Italian citizen: look at their parents. The first page of the civil code, published in 1865 as the ...

Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia in Rimini. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – In what might be seen, at least in part, as evidence of a “Francis effect” in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how migration affects European society and economies. A measure presented to Italians via referendum, to reduce the ...

For one reason or another, Americans occasionally find themselves asking what steps are needed to become a citizen of another country. According to the American Bar Association, immigration lawyers in ...

ROME — Two U.S. families went to Italy's highest court Tuesday to challenge the scope of a year-old law passed by Giorgia Meloni's government limiting citizenship claims to Italian descendants removed ...

The dual citizenship pathway with EU heritage is sold as the perfect option for many Americans, but the reality is completely ...

Rome (CNN) — The Italian government has this week enacted a law that makes it impossible for anyone to get Italian citizenship through their great-grandparents, dashing the hopes of those who have ...