DOCUMENTS – SOLE OWNERSHIP OF ITALIAN CITIZENSHIP BY THE ANCESTOR

APPLICANT

• Completed Citizenship Application Form to be signed during the appointment.
• Valid passport, together with a photocopy of the page containing the photograph and signature.

• Original Emirates ID and one photocopy.

• Proof of residence within this consular jurisdiction (e.g., tenancy contract and Abu Dhabi P.O. Box).
• Birth certificate: original birth certificate, duly legalized or apostilled and translated into Italian. The Italian translation must also be duly legalized or apostilled.
• Registry Office certificates: marriage certificate, divorce decree or spouse’s death certificate (if applicable), and eventual second marriage certificate.
  Italian certificates must be original, of recent emission, issued by the competent Italian municipality. Certificates issued by a country other than Italy must be duly legalized or apostilled and translated into Italian. The Italian translation must also be duly legalized or apostilled.

ASCENDANTS (GRANDPARENTS AND/OR PARENTS)

• Registry Office certificates: full birth certificate (Italian “atto integrale di nascita” or foreign equivalent), marriage certificate, divorce decree or spouse’s death certificate (if applicable), and eventual second marriage certificate, death certificate;
  Italian certificates must be original, of recent emission, issued by the competent Italian municipality. Certificates issued by a country other than Italy must be duly legalized or apostilled and translated into Italian. The Italian translation must also be duly legalized or apostilled.

• Certificate of the Italian ancestor’s residence records (“certificato storico di residenza anagrafica”) issued by the competent Italian municipality.

• Certificate of Non-Naturalization, issued by the competent local authorities, certifying that the parent/grandparent has not acquired a foreign citizenship. The certificate must include all name variations appearing in both the Italian and foreign civil status records and must be duly legalized/apostilled and translated.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING CIVIL STATUS CERTIFICATES AND RECORDS OF ANCESTORS AND THE APPLICANT

Corrections

Any errors or discrepancies in the names, places of birth, or dates of birth appearing in the civil status records or extracts relating to the applicant’s ancestors must have been corrected, or officially noted by means of a marginal annotation, by the Civil Status Registrar of the authority where the records were originally registered.

Legalization

All civil status records and extracts (birth, marriage, and death certificates), as well as foreign divorce judgments, must be legalized in accordance with the legal requirements of the country in which they were issued.

As a general rule, the following distinction applies:

1. a) Apostille:
   If the issuing country is a party to the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961, each document must bear an Apostille issued by the competent national authority.
2. b) Consular legalization:
   If the issuing country is not a party to the Hague Convention, each document must be legalized by the competent Italian Consular Authority in that country.

Applicants are advised to consult the website of the Italian Consular Mission with jurisdiction over the place where the document was issued to verify the legalization procedures applicable in the relevant country.

Translation

Each civil status certificate and each foreign divorce judgment must be accompanied by an Italian translation prepared by an authorized translator in the country where the document was issued.

1. a) Translation with Apostille:
   In countries that issue Apostilles for translators’ signatures, each individual translation must also bear an Apostille.
2. b) Translation with Certificate of Conformity:
   Where the issuing country does not provide Apostilles for translators’ signatures, each translation must be accompanied by a Certificate of Conformity issued by the competent Italian Consular Authority in that country.
3. c) Sworn Translation in Italy:
   Alternatively, translations may be prepared in Italy by a resident translator and sworn before the Registry of the competent Court (Tribunale) or the Justice of the Peace (Giudice di Pace) having jurisdiction over the translator’s place of residence.

Exemption from Legalization and Translation for Multilingual Civil Status Certificates

Only civil status certificates issued in an international multilingual format by countries that are parties to the Vienna Convention of 8 September 1976 are exempt from both legalization and translation (Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye). The same exemption also applies to civil status documents issued using the standard multilingual forms provided for under EU Regulation (EU) 2016/1191.