Tool · Route classifier
Which procedural route applies?
Italian citizenship-by-descent recognition runs through three procedural routes after the Law 74/2025 reform: the consular route under Law 91/1992 Art. 1, the judicial route through the Italian civil courts (1948 maternal-line cases and pending constitutional questions), and the preserved conditions of Article 3-bis. Lineage facts determine which one applies. The classifier returns a route, not an outcome — and stops short of the procedural work itself.
Where does the applicant currently reside?
Italian residency opens the comune-direct route under DPR 572/1993, which has its own 180-day legal processing window and does not run through any consulate.
Where does the Italian connection sit in the line?
Article 3-bis of Law 91/1992 (inserted by Law 74/2025) caps administrative recognition at parent or grandparent unless one of the preserved conditions applies.
Sources and method
The classification logic encodes the post-Law 74/2025 framework: Article 3-bis of Law 91/1992 (preserved categories a, a-bis, b, c, d), Constitutional Court ruling 30/1983 and Cassazione SU 4466/2009 on female-line transmission, and the chain-break analysis under Articles 7 and 12 of Law 555/1912. Primary-source links go to Normattiva (consolidated legislation), Gazzetta Ufficiale (publication of record), Corte Costituzionale, and ItalGiure (Cassazione database). The classifier does not promise an outcome; it places a lineage on the procedural map.