Re-recognition success 🇮🇹
After 8 years, I can finally say I’m done.
I lost my Italian citizenship over a technicality, and that turned into years of lawyers, a warzone, court cases, paperwork, waiting, dead ends and chasing documents across different countries. At one point it even meant a trip to the archives of rural Eritrea looking for old family records.
Eventually, I won recognition again through a 1948 case.
And even right at the end, after emailing the consulate, getting my AIRE approved and sent to Rome, there was still some last-minute drama to deal with.
But it’s over. I’m recognized, I have my Italian passport again and so does my entire family who were depending on me to get it done and I did!
I can finally close this chapter.
A huuuge thank you to everyone on this subreddit. I got a lot of useful information here over the years, and people were always willing to answer my many questions. It genuinely helped.
Ironically, the journey was probably more interesting than the actual result…. finally holding the passport almost feels anticlimactic.
Still, very happy to finally be done. 🇮🇹