It will be beneficial in every respect if your child acquires Italian nationality. If in your case you are about to start the procedure, you should know that a direct child includes both minors and adults in the family.

According to the blog Get Italian Citizenship, it is essential to list all family members of the applicant when completing the form submitted to the embassy authorities.

One of the great advantages of having an Italian passport is its easy access in almost all countries of the European Union.

How to process Italian citizenship for minor children

If you are a father or mother with Italian nationality and your child is a minor, you can also obtain Italian citizenship.

You can register it at the Italian consulate and automatically pass citizenship to your child.

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Thus, when obtaining Italian citizenship, they facilitate the steps to follow:

Step 1. Be registered or register with AIRE, the register of Italians living abroad.

Step 2. Update personal information in the Fast It system.

Register your child by adjusting your “Marital Status”.

Register the marriage.

Upload the following documentation, legalized and translated into Italian:

Identity card of the minor.

Birth certificate of the child

Step 3. Once the presentation and updating of data is completed, the child is “recognized” and citizenship is automatically transferred. You do not pay consular costs.

This procedure can also be carried out in person at the Anagrafe of the Italian Consulate that corresponds to you, depending on your address. To do this, you must make an appointment via Prenot@mi by selecting “Anagrafe Service” as the appointment type.

If the child is under 14 years old, both parents must be present. If the parent is over 14 years old, only the parent who is Italian, without the presence of the minor being necessary.

These are the requirements to obtain Italian citizenship by descent

Please take into account what they indicate in the aforementioned blog:

Click on this link for more information about adopted children and Italian citizenship. The adoption decision must be filed, says Sacar Italian citizenship.

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In the case of parents who were nationalized before having children

According to Clarín, citizenship can be communicated to you some time later for free, online and without an appointment through FAST IT (Farnesina Servizi Telematici per Italiani all’estero).

To do this, you must visit the website serviziconsolari.esteri.it/ScoFE/index.sco with all personal and family documentation. If you want to add a child, you must provide (upload) the following as a new member:

On the other hand, if the father or mother does not have Italian citizenship but is about to apply for it, they must make a single appointment at the Italian consulate corresponding to their address and present a single folder with all the required documentation, in which everything is included, from birth, marriage and death certificates of your Italian ancestor to your children.

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How to process Italian citizenship for adult children

If you are an adult and your father or mother is an Italian citizen, you can also become an Italian citizen, regardless of whether they acquired this through iure sanguinis (right of blood) or because you were born in Italy.

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This is the process described by the Remove Italian Citizenship blog

Step 1. You must first request an appointment via the Prenot@mi system. To do this you must be registered as a user. The service requested is the one listed as ‘Adult Children’.

Check this link for more information about the consulate itself.

Step 2. You need to gather the documentation. All documents must be legalized and translated into Italian. The basic requirements for carrying out the procedure are:

Personal documentation: Gather the necessary documentation to present:

If appropriate:

Know:

1) If the father or mother obtained it by reconstruction (it is the one inherited from an Italian ancestor and for which the father’s documents must be presented to the interested party), the son/daughter must have the same consulate address, Otherwise a reconstruction procedure is performed.

2) The requirements of the requested documents may vary depending on the consulate, please consult the respective consulate.

3) It is important that the address on your DNI matches that of the consular district for at least 6 months.

Step 3. When the date of service arrives, you will need to go to the Italian Consulate corresponding to your location (and the legal address corresponding to your DNI and service ticket) to prepare all documents and pay the consular fees.

Step 4. The consulate will review the documentation and, if everything is in order, grant you the certificate of Italian citizenship.

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In Clarín they point out – in the case of children over 18 years old – that if the father or mother has processed the citizenship, they can only be added to the folder with the documentation if the same consulate corresponds with them, through one service per ‘ eldest direct child’. old”.

In the case of an adult child, the following must be included:

All these documents must be translated into Italian by an official translator.

With information of the removal of Italian citizenship and Clarín.

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