Iure sanguinis citizenship limited to two-generation ancestry

Decreto Legge 36/2025, published on 28 March 2025, restricted Italian citizenship by descent (iure sanguinis) to those with a parent or grandparent born in Italy. Previously unlimited-generation descent-based citizenship, one of the longest-standing ancestry-citizenship regimes worldwide, was thereby sharply narrowed. Applications already pending on the enactment date continued under the prior rule.