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Judicial recognition of Italian citizenship through maternal lineage- born before January 1st 1948

Judicial recognition of Italian citizenship- Maternal lineage
  
ATTENZIONE- ATTENTION
Aggiornamento importante/ Important update
Marzo 2025- March 2025

On March, 29th 2025, has come into force in Italy the Decree related to the Italian citizenship “Decreto Legge  28 marzo 2025, n.3 “Urgent measures regarding citizenship”

Therefore, if you would like a video conference consultation
with one of our Italian lawyers/attorney
for a legal consultation
to discuss your case and find out if you can still
obtain the recognition of your Italian citizenship (of your children or other family member)

or contacting us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French) via email/ WhatsApp Italy/phone

We remind you that the analysis of your case and the consultation is ALWAYS carried out DIRECTLY in English / Italian (or in Spanish or French according to your need) by an Italian lawyer/attorney-at-law, registered with a Bar Association in Italy (Ordine degli Avvocati).

The founder and director of our law firm LIUZZI e LIUZZI Studio legale internazionale- Italian and International law firm is Avvocato Viviana Fiorella Liuzzi, who is an Italian avvocato / Italian attorney/Italian solicitor/ Italian lawyer  registered with the Bar Association of Rome in Italy -Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma  entitled to practise before all Italian courts, before the Italian Constitutional Court and who is also an Avvocato cassazionista entitled to represent clients before the ‘Magistrature superiori’, that is to say before the Italian Court of Cassation (only ‘cassazionisti’ can represent their clients before the ‘magistrature superiori’), the Consiglio di Stato and the Corte dei Conti.

We are LIUZZI e LIUZZI Italian Law firm (and also Spanish) - Studio legale internazionale
we provide legal consulting and assistance also for what it concerns:

  • LEGAL ASSISTANCE BEFORE THE COURTS AND TRIBUNALS THROUGHOUT ITALY (DIRECTLY WITHOUT INTERMEDIARIES) AGAINST RESOLUTIONS AND JUDGEMENTS DENYING ITALIAN CITIZENSHIP AND IN THE EVENT OF NON-COMPLIANCE BY THE ITALIAN MUNICIPALITY WITH ITS OBLIGATIONS

To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)

  • JUDICIAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN ITALY for appeals before the competent Italian judicial authority against decisions of the Italian Consulate, the Italian Comune or the Italian Ministry of the Interior by means of which you have been denied Italian citizenship

To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)

  • EXTRAJUDICIAL/ OUT-OF-COURT AND COURT ASSISTANCE FOR THE RENEWAL/OBTAINING OF A NEW ITALIAN PASSPORT

To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)

  • WE CAN FILE FOR YOU A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT IN ITALY FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE LOST YOUR ITALIAN PASSPORT/ CARTA D'IDENTITÀ OR IF YOUR ITALIAN PASSPORT OR CARTA DIDENTITÀ HAS BEEN STOLEN

To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)
     

  • LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN ITALY for appeals to the corresponding Italian Court of Appeal or to the Supreme Court of Cassation in Rome (Corte di Cassazione) against rulings that have denied you Italian citizenship


To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)

  • LEGAL CONSULTING AND JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE IN ITALY before the T.A.R. (Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale) competent Administrative Court in Italy

  • To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
    via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
    of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
    click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)

  • LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN ITALY, also in urgent cases, in the event of non-compliance by the Italian Comune with its obligations, for example with regard to the registration of acts of birth, marriage (etc.), the recognition of residence in Italy and in all other corresponding cases.

To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)
  • EXTRAJUDICIAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO VERIFY THE STATUS OF AN APPLICATION OF ITALIAN CITIZENSHIP

Liuzzi e Liuzzi Studio legale e tributario Internazionale – Italian and International law and tax firm provides extrajudicial assistance, including in urgent cases, to anyone who wishes to find out the status of their application for recognition of Italian citizenship submitted to an Italian Consulate or Italian Comune and to access documents and to the citizen's file application.

 

When the Client has an Italian passport that has expired or is about to expire, or it has been stolen or lost, or in the event that, even though he is an Italian citizen, has never obtained an Italian passport and wishes to obtain the issue/renewal of a passport, our Firm provides out-of-court assistance in the procedure to request an appointment with the competent authority or with the Italian Consulates for the issue of the passport and in all the procedures related to the request and issue of the passport.


In order to provide this assistance, it is necessary to evaluate the client's case, verifying that they meet all the necessary requirements to be able to obtain the renewal/issuance of the passport. Therefore, in order to send an estimate for this assistance, it is necessary for the client to make an appointment with one of the Firm's professionals to analyse their case.

In the event a client cannot obtain his/her Italian passport we provide -LIUZZI e LIUZZI Italian and International Law Firm – Studio legale e tributario internazionale also JUDICIAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE in Italy  (legal assistance that can be requested us as Italian law firm Studio legale even if the client does not reside in Italy and it is not necessary for the client to travel to Italy) as an emergency measure to request  the Italian competent Court to oblige the competent authority (for instance the Italian Consulate) to assign an urgent appointment to the citizen to obtain his/her Italian passport.
 

To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)


In the event of the loss or theft of an Italian passport, the Italian attorneys-at-law of our law firm LIUZZI e LIUZZI Studio legale e tributario internazionale can assist the Client remotely, without the need for him to travel to Italy, for the presentation in Ital(after having received the corresponding power of attorney from the Client) of the RIMINALreport of the loss/theft of the Italian passport before the competent Italian Prosecutor.



To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)

EXTRAJUDICIAL/ OUT-OF-COURT AND COURT ASSISTANCE FOR THE RENEWAL/OBTAINING OF AN ITALIAN CARD D'IDENTITÀ

When the Client has an Italian ‘carta d'identità’ that has expired or is about to expire, or in the event that, even though he/she is already an Italian citizen, he/she has never obtained the Italian ‘carta d'identità’ and wishes to obtain the issuance/renewal of the ‘carta d'identità’, our Law firm  Liuzzi e Liuzzi Studio legale e tributario Internazionale provides you with extrajudicial assistance in the procedure to request an appointment with the competent Italian authority in Italy or with the Italian Consulates to apply for the issuance of the carta d'identitá and in all the procedures related to the application and issuance of the same.
In order to provide this assistance, it is necessary to evaluate the Client's case, verifying that they meet all the necessary requirements to be able to obtain the renewal/issuance of the carta d'identità and therefore, in order to send an estimate for such assistance, it is necessary for the client to make an appointment for a video conference consultation with an Italian lawyer, avvocato italiano of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Studio legale e tributario Internazionale- Italian and International law firm to analyse your case our law firm fees are of Euros 190.
  

In cases where the client is unable to obtain an appointment for the renewal/issuance of the carta d'identità italiana, our Italian Law firm, Liuzzi e Liuzzi Studio legale e tributario Internazionale- Italian and international law firm, also provides JUDICIAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE before the Italian courts/ tribunali italiani throughout Italy (legal assistance that can be requested even if the client does not reside in Italy and it is not necessary for the client to travel to Italy) as a matter of urgency to ask the court to oblige the competent authority to assign an urgent appointment to the citizen so that they can apply for the Italian carta d'identità.


To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)

EXTRAJUDICIAL/ OUT-OF-COURT AND COURT ASSISTANCE (BEFORE ALL ITALIAN COURTS) IN CASES WHERE THE CLIENT ENCOUNTERS PROBLEMS OR DIFFICULTIES REGISTERING WITH THE A.IR.E.

Liuzzi e Liuzzi Studio legale e tributario Internazionale- Estudio Jurídico italiano e internacional provides extrajudicial assistance before Italian Consulates and ‘Comuni’ and judicial assistance before the corresponding Italian Courts (we provide assistance before all Italian Courts) to clients who are unable to register with the A.I.R.E., who encounter problems when trying to register or who need assistance for urgent registration with the A.I.R.E.


To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)

  • EXTRAJUDICIAL/ OUT-OF-COURT AND COURT ASSISTANCE BEFORE ALL ITALIAN COURTS FOR CLIENTS WHO ARE UNABLE TO OBTAIN REGISTRATION OF THEIR RECORDS OR THOSE OF THEIR RELATIVES (birth, marriage, death certificates, etc.) AT THE ITALIAN CONSULATE / ITALIAN MUNICIPALITY

Liuzzi e Liuzzi Studio legale e tributario Internazionale provides extrajudicial assistance before Italian Consulates and ‘Comuni’ and judicial assistance before the corresponding Italian Courts (we provide judicial assistance before all Italian Courts) to clients who are unable to obtain registration in Italy, for example, of their birth, marriage, death certificates, divorce decrees, etc.


To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)
       

  • Judicial appeal against Italian citizenship refusal



  • Legal assistance to expats


  • Visa for Italy- Refusal- Judicial assistance in Rome, (TAR)


  • Italian residence permits



To request urgent legal consulting related to your case
via  a videoconferencing appointment with an Italian attorney- avvocato
of Liuzzi e Liuzzi Italian and International Law firm
click HERE or contact us in English (or in Italian, Spanish, French)

  
JUDICIAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN ITALY
to worldwide clients (with no need to travel to Italy to receive our urgent legal advice and assistance) who would like to obtain the judicial recognition of Italian citizenship.

Judicial assistance before all of the Italian Courts for the judicial recognition of Italian citizenship throughout Italy:
  • Judicial assistance for the recognition of Italian citizenship iure sanguinis in Italy by maternal lineage (appeal against the so called 1948 rule)  
  • Judicial assistance for the recognition of Italian citizenship iure sanguinis by paternal lineage
  • Judicial assistance for the recognition of Italian citizenship in cases of important delays at any Italian competent Consulate;
  • Judicial assistance for the recognition of Italian citizenship in those cases where is impossible the obtention of an appointment before the competent Italian Consulate (against the so called Consular queue) ;
Judicial assistance before the Italian Regional Administrative Court of Lazio - TAR del LAZIO for appeals against the so called silence of the Italian Public Administration for what it concerns the recognition of Italian citizenship.
Liuzzi e Liuzzi provides furthermore judicial assistance against resolutions of REFUSAL of ITALIAN CITIZENSHIP:
Judicial assistance for appeals before:
- T.A.R. Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale Italian Administrative Court
  • Corte di Appello/ Italian Court of Appeal (throughout Italy before any competent Court of Appeal).
Considering the director and founder of our law Firm Avvocato Liuzzi Viviana Fiorella is Avvocato Cassazionista , “patrocinante innanzi alle magistrature superiori”, that is qualified to represent clients before any Italian ordinary Court but also before the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation and the other Superior Italian Courts our International law firm represents worldwide clients before the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation- Suprema Corte di Cassazione, before the Italian “Consiglio di Stato” and before the other Superior Courts in Italy.

EXTRAJUDICIAL ASSISTANCE
For the ADMINISTRATIVE recognition of Italian citizenship
Liuzzi e Liuzzi Studio legale e tributario Internazionale- Bufete Internacional de Abogados y Economistas- International Law and Tax Firm (Italian law, Spanish law, European Union Law, International law) provides extrajudicial assistance to worldwide clients for the obtention of the recognition of Italian citizenship/ dual citizenship recognition/ Italian passport obtention and renewal.
Legal advice and assistance is provided for instance for the obtention of the Italian citizenship iure sanguinis, by marriage according to Italian law, for residence etc in Italy but also before any Italian Consulate all of over the world, directly with no intermediaries of course.

We provide to International clients urgent extrajudicial assistance for the genealogical research, reconstruction, request and obtention of Italian certificates and any other document needed in Italy useful and compulsory to file the application for Italian citizenship before any Italian Consulate, before the Italian Municipality /Italian competent Comune providing legal advice and assistance both in the preparation phase then to file the application and furthermore when the file is being verified by the Italian Public Administration, following according to what Italian law enables us all of the procedure till the obtention of the Resolution.

To verify the status of an application a citizen has already filed before the Italian Authority for the recognition of Italian citizenship:
    Liuzzi e Liuzzi provides also extrajudicial assistance before any Italian Consulate worldwide (without intermediaries of course) but also before any Italian Authority in Italy where the person has filed an application for the recognition of Italian citizenship and wants to access to the documents of the dossier and verify what is being realized by the Italian Public Administration.
    Our legal assistance is provided in any case of application for the recognition of Italian citizenship filed in Italy or any other Country before the Italian Consulates.

Legal advice and assistance in case of issues related to AIRE registration and variation

Liuzzi e Liuzzi provides also extrajudicial assistance before any Italian Consulate worldwide (without intermediaries of course) but also before any Italian Authority in Italy with issues related to AIRE registration and AIRE variation.


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Liuzzi e Liuzzi
Studio legale e tributario Internazionale
International law & tax Firm
Italian Law, Spanish Law, European union Law, International Law



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WE PROVIDE JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE THROUGHOUT ITALY WITHOUT INTERMEDIARIES

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JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE ALSO BEFORE THE ITALIAN SUPREME COURT OF CASSATION

We also provide direct judicial assistance before the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation
- the founder of our law firm Avvocato Cassazionista Viviana Fiorella Liuzzi is entitled to represent clients also before the Suprema Corte di Cassazione and the other Italian Superior Jurisdictions.


    
Transmission of citizenship through maternal lineage for persons born before January 1st 1948

The children of an Italian woman born before January, 1st 1948 (married to a foreign citizen) can request judicially Italian citizenship by maternal lineage.

Also descendants of those children can obtain judicial recognition of Italian citizenship (we refer to the grandchildren of an Italian grandmother born before January, 1st 1948) if their ancestors have never given up to Italian Citizenship.

Liuzzi e Liuzzi is an Italian and International law firm its headquarter is in Italy where the hearings take place. This means that clients are assisted directly by a law firm with experience located in Italy with no intermediaries.

We provide judicial assistance before ANY Italian competent Court.

International clients contacting Liuzzi e Liuzzi (Italian and International law firm) find in the firm's English speaking professionals with years of experience both judicially and giving advice to submit Italian citizenship applications in Italy or at any Italian consulate and obtaining Italian citizenship in a time as short as possible (under Italian law).

Clients living abroad (resident in any Country of the world) who need to be represented in Italy to obtain judicial recognition of their Italian nationality can request Liuzzi e Liuzzi  (Italian and International law firm) advice also by distance with no need of travelling to Italy.

The lawyers and other professionals of the firm also inform and assist clients by indicating them what the notarized power of attorney must include for representation before the Italian court.

Appointments can be arranged  by videoconference according to the client's timezone.

All of the professionals and collaborators of Liuzzi e Liuzzi law firm  speak English and Italian (but also Spanish, French and German).

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Avvocato - Abogado- Lawyer Italy/ Spain
for judicial/extrajudicial assistance for example in Rome, Milan, Napols, Florence, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Palma, Ibiza and throughout Italy and throughtout Spain and worldwide before any Italian (for instance Italian Consulates worldwide) & Spanish competent Authority

Italian and Spanish lawyers/attorneys-at-law
Italian law, Spanish Law
European Union Law
International Law
Criminal law, Civil law, Administrative Law,  Tax Law
In ITALY Judicial assistance before any Ordinary Italian Court (Tribunale ordinario)
& before the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation (Suprema Corte di Cassazione), T.A.R., Consiglio di Stato
In SPAIN before any Spanish Court (Juzgado) also the Spanish Tribunal Supremo
and before the European Union Courts



Founder of Liuzzi e Liuzzi International Law Firm
Avvocato Cassazionista in Italy
Abogada in Spain
Italian/Spanish Lawyer/Attorney-at-law
Italian Lawyer qualified to represent clients before any Ordinary Court in Italy and also any Court of Appeal
and as Avvocato Cassazionista qualified also to represent clients before the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation
and as Spanish Lawyer before any Spanish Court including the Spanish Supreme Court & the Spanish Constitutional Court

           Yanina Veronica Liuzzi Economist & Jurist (legal counsel) Of counsel
Economista Colegiada Col. Economistas Islas Baleares, Graduada Derecho

To request legal advice and assistance also for urgent cases regarding
Italian Law, Spanish Law, International Law, European Union Law
contact us via WhatsApp Italy, WhatsApp Spain, Telegram, Email, Telephone
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Abogada Viviana Fiorella LIUZZI

Legal and tax advice and assistance- LIUZZI e LIUZZI
Italian law, Spanish Law, European Union Law, International Law:
Criminal law, Civil law, Administrative Law,  Tax Law
Judicial assistance before any Ordinary Italian Court (Tribunale ordinario) & also the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation (Suprema Corte di Cassazione), T.A.R., Consiglio di Stato and before any Spanish Court (Juzgado) also the Spanish Tribunal Supremo
and before the European Union Courts
Also: Italian citizenship recognition judicial cases & administrative ones



Founder of Liuzzi e Liuzzi International Law Firm
Avvocato Cassazionista in Italy
Abogada in Spain
Italian/Spanish Lawyer/Attorney-at-law


   ITALIA- Tel.: +39 06 92 95 83 92
ESPAÑA- Tel.: +34 91 90 38 218
© 2025- All rights reserved
Avvocato LIUZZI Viviana Fiorella
Abogada Viviana Fiorella LIUZZI

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& also before the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation (Suprema Corte di Cassazione), T.A.R., Consiglio di Stato
in SPAIN Judicial assistance before any Spanish Court (Juzgado)
also the Spanish Tribunal Supremo and before the European Union Courts




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for judicial/extrajudicial assistance for example in Rome, Milan, Napols, Florence, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Palma, Ibiza and throughout Italy and throughtout Spain and worldwide before any Italian & Spanish competent Authority
(for instance Italian Consulates worldwide)

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