To register your residency, you will need proper housing documents and your genealogical documents need to be pre-approved, among other documents. Italian municipalities need to confirm that you are a resident before accepting your citizenship application. This confirmation visit at your address needs to happen within 45 days, otherwise your residency is confirmed automatically, yet it usually happens much quicker.

If your documentation is correct, the officer writes to your home consulate(s) to check if any of your ancestors renounced their italian citizenship. Don't worry, cases where this has happened are EXTREMELY rare and if it has, it does not mean you automatically lose your right to Italian dual citizenship. Consulates with higher workloads (Ex: New York) need longer to answer but the answer comes usually within 1-2 months. 

The public official from the registry office can start transcribing your foreign birth certificate into an Italian one after the consular check comes favorably. The transcription can happen between 15-45 days and it also depends on the officer's time. Congratulations, from this moment on, you are already an Italian Citizen!

Once you have your Italian birth certificate you can apply for your Italian ID, at the town hall, as well as your passport with the Questura (Police). Italian authorities will send you your documents within 6-15 working days. We strongly recommend our clients to leave Italy only once they have received their personal documents. This is because consulates can take months to issue them, some even more than a year.