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In the meantime Canada just started welcoming folks who have Canadian ancestry.
Yes, well, there are people who have lived abroad for generations, speak the local language, and don’t know Italian, but hold Italian citizenship simply because one of their great-great-grandparents was Italian. Meanwhile, people born and raised in Italy who know the language and the local dialect aren’t recognized as citizens simply because their parents aren’t Italian.
I don't expect the current government to ever fix the second part, though.
That's a symptom of the cultural identity of italy. Italy as a nation is still very new. When italian emigrants left for other countries there was no national language. Italy was a kingdom of dialects. That's why there's millions of italian americans that don't speak the language. Even if italian immigrants lived in common communities in their new countries, they may not know the dialect of their neighbors. So instead, they learned the local language and let their dialect die so they could communicate.
I think if the decision had been going forward instead of backward, I would have felt better about it. Saying any descendents born after 2025 will not have assumed citizenship is very different than saying "Lol, your citizenship wasn't real."
Now I feel like the fact that I decided to learn Italian and work out an emigration plan before applying bit me in the ass. I should have started the process 15 years ago when I was as you say.
Exactly, plus, given the horrid conditions of many municipal offices in little towns that, in my opinion, should NOT count as separate municipalities, the public costs in terms of time and actual expenditure to verify the claims are ridiculously high.
Anyone care to explain? So with the citizenship law currently in place, you get Italian citizenship if any of your parents have it. But does that mean your kids will also get it since you have it? When does it stop? Seems like the nr of Italians abroad will balloon in a few generations if that's the case. No wonder they want to change it
Why should it stop?
Citizenship is a social contract that provides dues and benefits. If you dont live there, don’t do your dues, but remain entitled to your benefits, wouldn’t that just strain the resources available to citizens who actually are living there, doing their dues?
The only real strain on the system is that they have to record where you are and send you official documents from time to time as well as providing a way to vote from abroad. In times of crisis they may organise emergency flights to get you out of danger.
Besides that, an Italian citizen living abroad is not a large expense for the government.
If they remigrate back to Italy, they'd be entitled to education and healthcare, which are the largest Italian expenditures, without contributing to the system.
That is true if they go to Italy after retirement age or very sick. Otherwise they'll be working in Italy as well and be paying taxes in the country.
In Norway we have 5.5 million citizens. There are roughly 6 million American citizens of Norwegian descendants. If we had the same system that would put an unbelievable strain on our country