In a highly significant development for Italian citizenship applicants worldwide, the Italian Ministry of the Interior has officially adopted the Italian Supreme Court's recent Minor Issue decision and, in an unexpected move, created a process for certain previously rejected applications to be reconsidered.

The Italian Supreme Court's landmark Judgment No. 24045/2026 has dramatically changed the conversation around the long-debated Minor Issue.

For years, one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in Italian citizenship law has been the so-called "Minor Issue." Thousands of applicants saw their citizenship claims delayed, denied, or

On July 23, 2026, the Italian Constitutional Court issued Order No. 147/2026, a significant procedural development in the ongoing legal challenges to Italy's 2025 citizenship reform. Rather than issuing a final judgment on the merits, the Court suspended the constitutional proceedings and referred a key question to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg under Article 267 TFEU. 

For many people pursuing Italian citizenship by descent (jure sanguinis