Italy never forgot you. A new law — Law 74/2025 — opened a time-limited window for people who lost their Italian citizenship by naturalizing in the US or Canada before August 1992: you can reclaim it through Italian courts, with no residency in Italy required, until December 31, 2027. And if you're a descendant rather than a former citizen, the judicial route is still wide open.
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Whether you were once Italian and lost that connection — or you carry it in your blood without having claimed it yet — there is a path. We help you find which one is yours.
You came to the US or Canada, built a life, and became American or Canadian. But under Law 74/2025, former Italian citizens who lost citizenship before August 1992 can now reclaim it through Italian courts — no residency in Italy required. The window is open until December 31, 2027.
If your Italian parent or grandparent naturalized before their child was born, the chain of citizenship may have broken — but Law 74/2025 created a new reacquisition path specifically for these situations. We evaluate your case for free.
Your grandparent left Italy carrying a name, a language, and a legal identity. If you can trace that line — and no one broke the chain — what they carried may still belong to you through the judicial route.
Your grandparent left Italy and built a new life abroad — but under Italian law, that journey never erased their identity. If they remained Italian citizens at the time your parent was born, the bond reaches you.
If the Italian in your family line was your grandmother or mother who had children before 1948, Italian courts have consistently recognized these cases — where the administrative route would turn you away.
Maybe you grew up hearing Italian at the table, or your father once had an Italian passport. That feeling has a legal name. Tell us your story and we'll tell you exactly where you stand.
The desire to honor your roots is real and powerful. But the bureaucratic path between that feeling and official recognition is genuinely difficult — and most people can't navigate it alone.
Births, marriages, and deaths recorded in small Italian comuni — some over 100 years ago, in handwritten ledgers. Finding them, obtaining official copies, and having them properly certified requires deep local knowledge.
Italian consulates in the US and Canada are overwhelmed — appointment backlogs stretch 5 to 10 years. The judicial route bypasses this entirely, with a typical timeline of 1–2 years.
A document missing an apostille, a wrong translation, a name spelled differently across records — any single error can collapse months of effort. Precision isn't optional here; it's everything.
We've guided over 17,000 cases through every one of these obstacles — with a 100% approval rate.
A new law opened a time-limited window for people who lost their Italian citizenship to reclaim it. At Rotunno, we pursue this through Italian courts — faster than any administrative route and with a 100% approval rate.
If you were born in Italy, emigrated, and later naturalized in the US or Canada before August 15, 1992 — you are eligible for reacquisition. Italy considers this loss of citizenship involuntary under the old laws and now allows you to correct it.
We pursue reacquisition exclusively through the judicial route — through Italian courts. It's faster than the consulate queue, more reliable, and handled entirely by our legal partners in Italy. You don't travel. You don't wait years. We take care of everything.
The reacquisition window under Law 74/2025 is strictly time-limited. Once December 31, 2027 passes, this path closes — and there is no indication it will reopen. If you think you qualify, the time to act is now.
Italian law has always recognized that citizenship flows through blood — not borders, not bureaucracies. Through the courts, this recognition is direct, formal, and binding. We take your family's story and present it to an Italian judge, who restores what was never truly lost.
Your citizenship isn't granted as a favor — it's formally declared by a judge as something that always existed. That distinction matters.
If the Italian ancestor in your family was a woman with children before 1948, Italian courts have consistently ruled in favor of these families. We know how to present these cases.
Our partners on the ground in Italy locate the original documents — birth records, marriage certificates, emigration files — that prove who your ancestors were.
No travel to Italy. No consulate appointment. Our legal team handles everything in Italian courts on your behalf, from beginning to ruling.
A guided, step-by-step journey — from what you know about your ancestors to the official restoration of your Italian identity.
You tell us what you know — a name, a village, a generation. We review your family tree and tell you honestly whether the judicial route can restore your citizenship.
We send a detailed proposal with the estimated judicial timeline, full document checklist, and transparent fixed pricing — no surprises.
Our partners go to the Italian comuni, the church archives, the civil registries — and find the original documents that prove who your family was and where they came from.
All documents are certified, translated, and apostilled to Italian legal standards. One error here can restart the entire process — we leave nothing to chance.
Our legal partners in Italy file your case directly with the competent court. You don't travel, you don't wait years for a consulate — the court process moves on a predictable timeline.
The court issues its ruling. Italy officially declares what was always true: you are Italian. Your nonno's journey and yours — finally, formally connected.
We don't do general immigration. For 12+ years, our focus has been exclusively on Italian citizenship by descent — 17,000+ approved cases and a 100% approval rate to show for it.
We work exclusively through Italian courts — which means faster timelines, no consulate dependency, and full eligibility even for 1948 rule cases that the administrative route would deny.
Our team is Italian-speaking and deeply familiar with both the Italian legal system and the reality of Italian-descent families in North America. We understand your story because we've heard thousands like it.
No hourly billing, no hidden costs. You know the full price before signing anything — transparent from day one.
Offices in Brazil, the USA, and a network in Italy. We are a real, accountable company — not a one-person operation.
We serve families across the entire US and Canada — fully remote, no travel required. Our legal partners in Italy handle all in-person court proceedings on your behalf.
