As an Italian American girl growing up in New Jersey during the sixties I always believed that I was just as much Italian as both sets of my grandparents who were born in Italy. In fact, my maternal grandparents raised me because both my parents worked. Like most of my neighbors in a small Italian…
Being the son of Italian parents, my wife and I started considering Italian Citizenship in 2014 but never pursued it. Then one day, our son expressed an interest and approached us to reconsider it and we did. At that point, we started to investigate the options in making it happen and did some in-depth research.…
My path to Italian citizenship began many years ago as a child playing on the floor in my grandmother’s kitchen, listening to my grandparents bicker in Italian while she cooked and he read the newspaper. I didn’t know what they were saying but I remember their voices, their mannerisms, and the wonderful aroma of tomato…
I have always felt very connected to my Italian roots since both sides of my family were all from Italy. When I learned about citizenship by descent many years ago, I set to work tracing my family roots. I knew that my maternal grandfather was born in Italy and my other three grandparents were born…
Nina and Andrea, who originally come from New Hampshire and Illinois respectively, began their friendship in Rovigo, where they chose to file their application for Italian citizenship by descent. Nina had long dreamt of travelling to Europe and reconnecting with her Italian heritage but it was only after her husband came across one of ICA’s…
The Italian side of our family comes from my father. His parents came to the US separately but coincidentally in 1920. My grandmother, Helen (born Elena), came from a small mountain town in Abruzzo, whereas my grandfather, Nick (born Nicola after his grandfather), came from a small town in Puglia, near Bari. She was only…
I have Italian ancestry on both my mother and father’s sides of the family and I grew up with a very strong Italian culture. My mother was always very proud of her Italian heritage and she cooked Italian food constantly. Christmas dinner in our house was a giant pot of crab cioppino to feed at…
My journey started in 2018 when I decided to get Italian citizenship. My husband and I lived in Italy for two and a half years on a work visa (2012-2014) and fell in love with the country, the people, the culture and the food. That, combined with the fact that my grandparents were born in…
ICA, Italian Citizenship Assistance, has been literally life changing for me and for my partner. I am from San Francisco, USA and back in 2017 I left for Europe to travel around the world with my girlfriend. The first couple of weeks in the United Kingdom, I was looking at Ancestry.com and discovered the actual…
I decided to apply for dual US/Italian Citizenship because my father was born in Italy. A process was started for myself and my adult children and grandchildren – 12 of us all together! Trying to talk with someone at the consulate was challenging. In doing some online research it became apparent that there had been…
I first dreamt of obtaining Italian citizenship via jure sanguinis in the 1980’s. My grandparents are all from Italy, and I decided to base my citizenship request on my paternal grandfather, Dominic Rocco, born in Cropani, Calabria in 1890. I researched the requirements to qualify for citizenship and requested the necessary documents from relatives on…
We hear all kinds of bad stories about Italian bureaucracy and inefficiency—these stories were a concern for me at the beginning of my citizenship process—so I was quite relieved to discover ICA. Marco, Andrea and their incredible staff of professionals are as good, if not better, than any legal team you can hire in Europe…