Article 14 of Law no. 91/1992, amended by Legislative Decree No. 36/2025 as converted by Law No. 74/2025, provides that, to acquire citizenship in this manner, the child of Italian citizens other than by birth must have been legally resident in Italy for at least two continuous years at the time of acquisition or reacquisition of Italian citizenship by the parent (if the child is under two years of age, they must have been resident in Italy since birth).
Please, note that:
- In the event that the procedure for the recognition of citizenship for a minor living with a parent who is not Italian by birth (iure communicatione) falls, within the exceptions identified by letters a), a-bis) or b) of Article 3-bis of Law No. 91/1992 (i.e., application – administrative or judicial – submitted by March 27, 2025, or application submitted at the appointment indicated by March 27, 2025), the previous rules will apply.
- If the application for the recognition of citizenship iure communicatione was submitted starting from March 28, 2025, it is necessary that the parent who transmits the citizenship is exclusively an Italian citizen or has resided in Italy for two years before the birth of the child.
- If the acquisition or re-acquisition of citizenship by the parent occurs starting from May 24, 2025the child living with the parent who acquires or reacquires Italian citizenship must have been resident in Italy for at least two years before the naturalization of the parent. In this case, the competence to ascertain the acquisition of citizenship by the minor will be the competence of the Italian Municipality (Comune) of residence.