100+ favorable rulings for our clients.
Since 2024 alone.
Including wins for applicants excluded by the 2025 Tajani reform,
as well as consular delay, minor age, and 1948 cases.
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Legal path to Italian citizenship: our core expertise
From legal strategy to your Italian passport
Your case starts before it is filed. We build your legal strategy, prepare your case, and file when it’s ready.
Phase 1
Build your case
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Case assessment & legal strategy
Identify the strongest citizenship line and define your individual legal strategy.
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Evidence & document preparation
Prepare the documents and evidence your individual legal strategy requires.
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Petition preparation
Turn your legal strategy and evidence into a court petition built around your case.
- Case ready
Phase 2
Filing & court proceedings
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Filing strategy
Your case is ready. We monitor legal developments and choose when to file.
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Court proceedings
We file your petition and represent you before the Italian court.
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Court decision
The Italian judge decides your individual citizenship case.
- You’re Italian!
Phase 3
After recognition
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Judgment & registration
We finalize the judgment and register your citizenship with the Italian municipality.
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AIRE & passport
We guide you through AIRE registration and the Italian passport process.
Why choose Aprigliano Law Firm?
Experience you can verify
Our published Case History includes 100+ favorable Italian citizenship decisions since 2024 alone.
Post-Tajani litigation experience
We have raised activation, non-retroactivity and EU law arguments in court since the 2025 reform, before and after the CJEU referral.
Strategy built around your case
We build each case around the legal grounds, evidence and strategy that fit your individual circumstances.
Hear from our founder
Watch a brief message from our founder introducing our firm and our approach to Italian citizenship cases.
Frequently asked questions
No. Starting your case and filing your lawsuit are two different steps.
First, your individual case should be assessed and the legal strategy defined. Starting the legal process does not mean that your court petition must be filed immediately.
The timing of filing is a separate strategic decision.
Potentially, yes. Italian courts have already recognized citizenship in post-reform cases based on prior activation before March 27, 2025.
Whether prior activation is relevant depends on the specific circumstances of your case and the evidence available. It may provide an independent ground for recognition, separate from the question currently before the CJEU.
An Italian judge may therefore recognize your citizenship without waiting for the CJEU ruling.
No. Your appeal deadline runs independently from the CJEU proceedings. If you do not appeal within the applicable deadline, the judgment becomes final.
Once the judgment is final, your case cannot benefit from a later favorable CJEU ruling.
No. Your lawyer represents you in Italy through a power of attorney, and the citizenship proceeding is based on written submissions and documentary evidence. You do not need to travel to Italy or appear in court personally.
Not necessarily. Your family line, legal grounds and supporting evidence should be assessed first. Only then can you know which documents your case actually needs. Your legal strategy should determine the documents, not the other way around. Being prepared means having a case ready to
file, not just a collection of documents.
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