Overview

• On July 31, the Constitutional Court ruled that Law 91/1992 imposes no generational limit on citizenship by descent and blocked any removal of existing rights under the March decree.
• The Tribunal of Torino has deemed the March 2025 decree unconstitutional for applications filed before its enactment, ordering those cases to be processed under the previous unlimited ius sanguinis rules.
• Thousands of Argentine and other diaspora descendants are mobilizing judicial challenges to secure Italian citizenship for third and later generations based on recent precedents.
• Deputy Franco Tirelli said the Constitutional Court’s affirmation of Article 1 creates a jurisprudential foundation that could compel the government or Parliament to revise or overturn the generational cap.
• All parties now await the Italian Supreme Court’s post-recess decision to deliver a definitive ruling on the validity of the Meloni administration’s citizenship restrictions.