Court of Rome, Judgment of October 28, 2020

Having documented the direct line of descent of the Brazilian applicants from an Italian ancestor, as well as the submission of their request for recognition of status civitatis to the Italian Consulate in Curitiba as early as 14 February 2018, without any response, the judge reaffirmed that:
“The uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the request for recognition of Italian status civitatis iure sanguinis, together with the passage of an unreasonable period of time in relation to the interest at stake — resulting moreover in harm to that very interest — amounts to a denial of the recognition of the right, thereby justifying recourse to judicial protection.”