A great-grandparent from Italy used to be all it took to guarantee Italian citizenship. A surprise decree has now changed all ...

My great-grandfather Luigi Gizzi came over from the town of Ceccano, Italy, to the United States in 1903. He lived in San ...

Fewer people of Italian descent will now be able to obtain citizenship after the government narrowed its eligibility criteria to those with Italian parents or grandparents. The government says it ...

The U.S. also has ‘jus sanguinis‘, granting citizenship to children born abroad to U.S. citizens. While birthright citizenship is common in the Americas, it is less prevalent in other parts of ...

But in the vast majority of countries, citizenship is determined by descent (also known as "jus sanguinis"). That can mean something different in each country, but for the most part it means ...

On March 28, the Italian government tightened regulations for claiming citizenship by jus sanguinis, or descendent blood line, effective immediately. The law will go to parliament to be ratified ...