One Step Closer To Being (Officially) Italian

petrini1

Aug 30

I am now on the waiting list at the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for an appointment to have my dual citizenship approved.

Here I am this summer at the Pantheon in Rome, taking a rare selfie. (Yes, that is a covid mask hanging from my ear. I wear them in crowds; I took it off just long enough to snap a few photos.)

At #503 on the list, I am not sure how long it will be before I can snag an actual appointment. But I am lucky to live in this area, which makes me eligible to apply at the actual embassy instead of a consulate elsewhere in the country, where the waiting lists, if they exist at all, are in the thousands, and wait times when you finally get an appointment are running 2-6 years. Fingers crossed that mine will not take nearly that long. D.C. is generally the fastest place in the U.S. to apply for Italian citizenship jure sanguinis (by descent).

All of my paperwork is compiled and just needs to be translated and apostilled; I have hired a genealogist with expertise in Italian citizenship who is handling that part for me.

Now I will add my son to the waiting list, too, so he can get his own appointment and eventually become a dual citizen, too.