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PRATICA · CITIZENSHIP & PASSPORT · UK
Ten years beside Italian families in the UK, one case at a time. From 2026, the same work, now under a name: Pratica.
EXPERIENCE
Since 2014
PRATICA · FOUNDED
2026
CONSULATES
London · Manchester · Edinburgh
Not a law firm. Not an immigration agency. Just someone who knows this path because they have walked it dozens of times, quietly, for the right people.
WHO WE ARE
It started with family, over ten years ago. A relative wanted to claim Italian citizenship and had no idea where to begin: wrong forms, documents in the wrong order, an appointment booked at a consulate that was not theirs. We rebuilt the file, filed it, and it landed. From that day on, we never quite stopped.
Then friends came. Then friends of friends. Then people we had never met, who had heard a cousin speak well of us. For more than a decade the work grew by word of mouth — no website, no price list, no rush. We saw every possible well-meant mistake and learned, case by case, which document must be requested first, which translation must be refused, which consulate reads things one way and which reads them another.
In 2026 we gave that work a name. Pratica is not a start-up. It is the final shape of something that was already there, now written down, ordered, reachable by people who do not arrive by referral. The people we take on are not clients. They are families who needed this to go well — and deserved not to do it alone.
Pratica · Independent service · United Kingdom
WHAT YOU CARRY NOW
Before we tell you what we do, we tell you what we see. These are the same things, case after case, year after year.
Months watching a system that announces nothing. You open it, close it, open it again. One morning someone else took the slot — you have no idea when it appeared. You start over.
You paid two hundred pounds. The consulate rejects it: name spelt two ways, apostille applied before rather than after, a seal they do not recognise. The money does not come back. The case restarts.
You took leave, travelled, waited in the hall. The official leafs through the file. A piece is missing. The next slot is eight months away. You stand up and say nothing.
You built a great-grandparent file for two years. In May 2025 the law changed: only two generations count. Is your case alive? Is it closed? You read the forums and still do not know.
A parent has a flight in October and a passport about to expire. It is April. Prenotami shows 2028. Every morning they ask if you have any news.
You wrote to the consulate. No reply for three weeks. You wrote again. Nothing. Was your tone off? Did they see it? Is there a number to call? There is not.
WHAT WE CARRY
Every point on the list above has a counterpart below. These are not promises — they are the concrete shape of this work.
01
You do not watch any more. The appointment arrives in your inbox, confirmed, with date, hour and consulate. The how is ours.
02
Sworn translators, apostille in the correct order, names reconciled across three languages. No file bounces back. No fee thrown away.
03
The official leafs, checks, closes. Nothing missing. No rebooking. The day ends where it was meant to end.
04
You do not have to read the forums, the circulars, the rulings. If something in your case moves, we write to you — in plain language.
05
No ticket number replies. A person reads your case, knows where you are, and has already seen this question a hundred times.
THE TWO PATHS
The first is narrow: an appointment, at your consulate, in your time. The second is complete: from the first document to recognition.
PASSPORT · APPOINTMENT
You tell us which consulate. We monitor until your appointment is confirmed.
£110
one-off
CITIZENSHIP · COMPLETE
Walk into the consulate with everything ready. Nothing missing, nothing to redo.
£838
one-off
THE GROUND
€600
Government fee, jure sanguinis
12–24
Months, UK consulate processing
3
Consulates in the UK
2
Generations, Law 74/2025 limit
WHERE THE MONTHS GO
Citizenship, from first document to passport, lives in three distinct tempos. Knowing where you are, and who decides at each point, removes the worst part of waiting: not knowing.
01PREPARATION
Documents, apostilles, translations.
2 – 6 months
Held by · Our work
02APPOINTMENT WAIT
Consulate calendar opens a slot.
1 – 12 months
Held by · Consulate calendar
03COMUNE PROCESSING
Italian municipality registers recognition.
6 – 24 months
Held by · Commune in Italy
HOW IT MOVES
01
We read your situation before we accept it. If no route is open, we say so — no fee.
02
A personal portal with your documents, messages, status. No lost sheets, no forgotten WhatsApp.
03
Certificates requested in the right order, translations done by sworn translators, apostilles coordinated. Nothing bounces at intake.
04
Monitoring until the appointment is confirmed, or handling the email route for Edinburgh. You arrive informed.
05
Codice fiscale, AIRE registration, first passport application if you want it. We do not leave you on the consulate steps.
THE FOUR FRONTS
A citizenship case crosses four kinds of work at once. Most of what goes wrong happens where two of them meet, not within any single one.
THE ARCHIVE
Records older than the internet.
Communal registers, historical indices, letters dispersed by a century of change. Knowing which door to knock on is half the work.
THE AUTHENTICATION
Official signatures, in the right relation.
Apostilles and legalisations live in a specific relation to translations. Out of relation, the document is invalid and the fee is lost.
THE TRANSLATION
Sworn, not just competent.
Only a registered translator produces a document the consulate accepts at the counter. Which translator, and on which register, is the part most self-run cases get wrong.
THE SUBMISSION
The shape each consulate accepts.
London's file is not Manchester's file, and neither is Edinburgh's. A generic bundle goes to the back of the queue without comment.
INSIDE YOUR PORTAL
No email buried in folders, no PDF at the bottom of a chat. One place, clear, searchable, yours.
Uploaded by you, downloadable by you, read by us. Every version dated. No confusing duplicates.
Translations, forms, apostilles, covering letters. All ready, all downloadable, all yours.
A written exchange with the person handling your case, saved for good. What is said stays. It is not lost in a phone chat.
Where we are, what we are waiting for, what is next. Updated when it changes, not when someone asks.
Once recognition lands, the road is not over. The portal carries you to the passport in hand.
United Kingdom consulates
CONSULATE · 01
CONSULATE · 02
CONSULATE · 03
Consular updates
The Constitutional Court upheld Law 74/2025. The two-generation limit for jure sanguinis is final.
Sezioni Unite hearing on the minor naturalisation question (Art. 7 vs Art. 12). The outcome could affect thousands of pending applications.
AIRE citizens will be able to apply for the CIE directly at their Italian municipality, bypassing the consulate.
The government fee for jure sanguinis citizenship increased from €300 to €600. The fee for 1948 court cases increased from €545 to €600.
Questions
No. This is an administrative document preparation service. We are not regulated by the SRA or OISC. Cases requiring court proceedings (including the 1948 maternal line) require a solicitor.
The Italian government fee for processing a citizenship-by-descent application. Doubled from €300 on 1 January 2025. Paid directly to the consulate at the oath ceremony. Separate from our service fee.
Law 74/2025 limits jure sanguinis to two generations from the Italian-born ancestor. Grandparent → parent → applicant. Beyond this, the residency route in Italy is required.
UK consulates process jure sanguinis applications in 12 to 24 months from submission. Our service covers preparation, not processing.
Yes. One price — £110 for London, Manchester and Edinburgh.
The FCDO apostille must precede translation. Italian certificates should be requested via ANPR first. Incorrect sequencing doubles costs and timelines.
ONE LAST THING
For more than ten years we did this work without saying so. Today we say it, so that those who need us can find us. The rest — the calm, the care, the replies that are actually read — stays exactly as it was.
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