The government says it tightened citizenship rules because of a deluge of applications from the descendants of emigrants who only coveted an Italian passport. By Patricia Mazzei Reporting from ...

"Being an Italian citizen is a serious thing. It's not a game to get a passport that allows you to go shopping in Miami," Tajani told a press conference. The foreign ministry said there had been a ...

You can no longer apply for Italian citizenship through your great-grandparents. Italy tightened its requirements for citizenship by descent. People applying for a second citizenship with Italy ...

Italy is drastically tightening its citizenship requirements, ending the dream for many thousands hoping to get an Italian passport through ancestry. Spain has ended its “golden visa” program ...

A DECREE brought in overnight is making it harder for Brits to get a passport to a popular European country. On March 27, the Italian government introduced a decree overnight that makes it harder ...

ROME - Italy's government tightened its citizenship laws on Friday, preventing people from delving deep back into their family history to try to claim a much sought-after Italian passport.