Was this a preavviso di rigetto?
My daughters received this email from the NY Consulate in Jan. 2025. We didn’t respond to it. It was never followed up with an actual rejection. Can anyone confirm one way or another if this is an official preavviso di rigetto?
Dear Madam,
we are contacting you to inform that the Italian Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for citizenship matters, following recent rulings by the Corte di Cassazione (the highest judiciary court in Italy, has issued new guidelines that must be applied when processing applications for the recognition of iure sanguinis citizenship (right of blood) (Circolare n.43347 dated October 3, 2024).
Following these new guidelines, that must be applied to all new or open/pending applications that have not been fully processed yet as of October 3rd 2024, regardless of the status of the application, date of the appointment or application submission date, should it be established that the child lost their Italian citizenship because their parent naturalized when they were still a minor, transmission of Italian citizenship is considered interrupted. Therefore, in order to be recognized, the applicant must prove that the US-born ancestor who had lost their Italian citizenship subsequently reacquired it. If they are unable to do so, the application will be rejected. Any submitted documentation will not be returned and will remain on file at this Consulate General.
In your case, you have to provide proof that (xxx) re-acquired the Italian citizenship and thus was able to transmit it onto the following generation.
Further details in the matter are available on the Consulate website.