OOOO! I think I might be eligible for Italian Dual Citizenship by descent!
https://www.icapbridging2worlds.com/italian-dual-citizenship-by-descent/
@balrogboogie that's a bummer! I never thought I would be I just was like hmm I wonder and depending on a couple of technicalities, I should be eligible because my great-grandparents emigrated to the US. I just need to check dates and if they had retained their citizenship when my grandfather was born.
@salmon_cannon good luck! I didn't think I would be either but then I read that there was a specific case when your maternal grandfather was born in the UK, which mine was. If only I'd been born a few days earlier lol.
I might put an application in anyway, just to see
@salmon_cannon
I initially read that as 'by accident' 😛
@dumpling lol I mean I searched for it on a whim, so sort of?
@salmon_cannon
You should get it!
@dumpling I think I'd like to try there's only two potential pieces of info that I don't currently know that could hold me back.
Whether my great-grandparents emigrated after June 14, 1912 (I believe my great-grandfather served in the Italian army in WWI, so I think I'm good there), and whether they retained their Italian citizenship when my grandfather was born (which given the rampant bigotry and lynching of Italians back then I wouldn't be surprised if they chose to give it up)
@salmon_cannon that's great! i just checked on claiming dual citizenship in britain and I missed being able to claim it by **13 days**. If I'd been born 2 weeks earlier I'd probably be able to claim dual citizenship