Opened in 2026. Here is what you can check.

At 23:59 Rome time on 27 March 2025, the window closed for filing a claim under the old law. On 24 May 2025, Art. 3-bis came into force. Between those two dates the question that decides who has a claim to citizenship by descent changed, and not in the way it is described almost everywhere.

The reform gets called a two-generation limit. That is a summary of the outcome, not the test. The test asks whether a parent or grandparent held exclusively Italian citizenship, or whether a parent lived in Italy for two continuous years after acquiring it. Those are different questions, and in the most common Italo-British case they give opposite answers: a grandparent who became British after their child was born passed the old test and fails the new one.

Almost all the English-language guidance still answers the old question. Not out of bad faith: the pages were written earlier, the summaries derive from those pages, and the forum answers repeat the summaries. A reader cannot tell one layer from another, and pays for certificates, apostilles and translations before finding out.

Pratica opened in 2026, inside that gap. It is not an old business under a new name and there is no decade to tell you about. There is one thing you can check today without trusting us: every rule on this site carries the article it comes from, with the date it took effect and the source. When a source moves, the page moves, and the page says when it moved.

Before we accept a case, we read it. If the route is closed (by generation, by date, by residence) we say so at once. We do not open cases that will not land. A no said early is worth more than a yes that leads to a consular refusal six months later.

Every document is dated, numbered, searchable. Every translation is verified before being handed to the consulate. Every apostille is applied at the correct step of the chain, not before, not after. This is not perfectionism: it is keeping a two-hundred-pound fee from turning into two lost months.

We write a lot. The important decisions (which route, which sequence, which consulate) arrive in writing, with the reasons. Calls and quick messages are summarised in the portal, so that a year later, if needed, you can find again why we chose one path and not the other.