Italian passport.  I am sorry if this has

You can apply for citizenship "jure sanguinis". I'm not an expert but you may have to have a direct line, i.e. that your mother or father have to be/become an Italian citizen first. But otherwise fairly straightforward. see https://italiancitizenshipassistance.com/jure-sanguinis/

The main problem may be acquiring your grandparents documents.

I'm currently suing the Italian state to acquire citizenship as my Italian mother lost hers when she married my father, an English soldier, in 1947

if your paternal grandparents were Italian, their son: your father, too, is Italian by birth, so if he has not renounced Italian citizenship, during his life, you, who are his son, are Italian, for birth - every Italian has the right to an Italian passport - I don't see the problem

Didn't you know your father? , you don't know if he had an Italian passport ?

but you haven't lived with your father, you never asked him these things ?

anyway, if your grandparents were Italian, your father was born Italian - and if for reasons you don't know, he also had an Italian passport, the fact that at 65 he received an Italian one, in my thought, it just means he had double passport -



If you are not an Italian citizen at birth, it is possible that in the country where you were born, there was the possibility to choose the nationality of the unborn child. In Italy, children receive the citizenship of the father, only if the mother is not of Italian citizenship, and the father does not recognize them as his own.

Your father will almost certainly have had dual citizenship. It's not possible for all countries but is for UK and Italy

a question that may seem silly ..., but .., on your birth certificate, what is written, for the citizenship of your parents?

so you were registered at birth, English citizen!



A question, if you allow, why do you want Italian citizenship, more than 50 years after your birth?



Lately I have noticed that the number of people, born and registered with citizenships, the most varied, however outside Italy, who desire Italian citizenship has increased. While, every day, the Italian citizens, who emigrate, to have a better life, increase.



If emigration does not surprise me at all, instead I am amazed by this immigration, <bureaucratic>, most of those who obtain Italian citizenship, then remain to live in the country in which they were born that gave them their first citizenship .

No problem with the question. 

I have a house in Italy, I visit about 5 times a year and spend about 6 weeks there in the summer. In the future I would like to spend more time. With brexit I don't want the situation where after a 6 month tourist visa expires and I would have to drive to Switzerland and then reenter Italy to get another 6 month visa. 

Thank you

No one knows at the moment. I am just going off the situation in Canada. The United Arab Emirates also gives a 6 month stamp.

Trouble is it is a schengen area and the rules here don't look too good to me. Near the end of it it gives details on how long you can staty.

Remember, (assuming you are from the UK) that if you are out if the UK for more than 6 months (continuous), you (in theory,) lose the right to NHS services when you return. And any travel insurance and car insurance is similarly time limited

Am surprised to hear the NHS news. Have worked abroad extensively over the last 30 years and never had an issue on returning with the health service.

Also not sure how that fits with an issue the NHS has been having with overseas nationals using the health service. 

I think all you need to do if you return to England and are asked at hospital or the GPs (which I doubt and has never happened to us) is show them your UK passport.

Hi, do you still need advice about getting your citizenship? I can answer your questions. 

Thanks - laura 

I was able to get my Italian citizenship because my father was born before my grandfather renounced his Italian citizenship to gain U.S. citizenship.  Since my father was born to Italians, he was considered Italian.  He never needed to renounce his Italian citizenship because the U.S. automatically gave citizenship to the children of new citizens and their spouses.  I learned of this law (juris Sanguinis) in 2005 and made two trips to Italy to my grandfather's birth town and secured an official copy of his birth certificate.  That process took about 1 hour, once we got to the town and to the Ufficio.  Funny thing, the men in the Ufficio both had my surname, but were of no direct relationship, so far as we could figure.  I used the birth certificate prove my eligibility for Italian citizenship.  Once I got the citizenship (3 years long process), I was easily able to get a passport.  When I went to renew that passport in early 2020, the Consulato took my fingerprints, my $60, and the completed form, as well as my old passport with the corner now cut to show it was no longer valid.  Within two weeks, I had a new passport in the mail.  The three year long citizenship process was the challenge.  I also secured citizenship for my children at the same time.  I had 30 sets of official documents translated into Italian.  That was the most expensive part of the process, close to $1000, but the translator was excellent.  She worked for a law firm in LA and often translated for people like me.  

Louise

Thanks for that, very helpful.

Your situation mirrors! Very closely. 

So am I correct in saying you require the birth certificate of the closest relative born in Italy. Ie my Nonno and Nonna?

And did you require anything ing more from you father other than his Italian passport? (birth, marriage certificates etc?)

Thanks

Sorry predictive txt.... 

Thank you very much. 

That's a great help. 

Everything Besso... said is consistent with my experience here in the U.S. at the Los Angeles Consulate.

I looked into this as well and it seem fairly specific.  Back in the day I do not think dual citizenship was allowed so when my Grandfather took his American citizenship oath, he had to denounce his Italian citizenship.  If your parents (of Italian decent) were born prior to your Grandfather becoming a citizen of another country, you qualify.  In my case my Grandmother was pregnant with my father at the time so I do not qualify but it is my understanding that in such cases the residency requirement is reduced from 10 years to 3.