Processing time for Italian Citizenship (1948 cases): From June 2022, judicial applications for citizenship recognition in cases of consular delays or cases per maternal lineage before 1948 are not submitted at the Court of Rome anymore, but by competent local Courts, according to the place of birth of the last Italian ancestor born in Italy and then expatriated.
In Italy, processing time of the lawsuits may vary not only according to the differences between each case filed, but mainly depending on the Court before which the lawsuit is filed.
The aim of this article is to provide and indicative estimate of the processing time of this type of lawsuit of the different Italian Courts.
Local judges proceed to schedule on their own hearing dates based on various factors, that may cause the differences in processing time, such as judge’ internal workload and that one of the Court.
Moreover, replacing the appointed judge, requesting additional documentation and clarifications or judge being used to settle more than one hearing, has surely an impact on overall processing time.
As you can see, despite a very common idea, Courts in Northern Italian cities are not always faster than those in the South.
With the assistance of our net of associate lawyers, we constantly submit lawsuits in regional Courts in Italy, therefore we are constantly updated on their processing time.
Here below is a list of processing time in some Italian Local Courts, according to our most recent experiences:
Note: This is a general overview only. It cannot be relied upon as a legal advice/opinion.
This article was written by Giuditta De Ricco and Daniele Sergio Ranno
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