Additional Requirements for All Catagories

All Certificates:

All Certificates must be new “CERTIFED COPIES” a.k.a. “LONG FORM” or “FULL FORM” (not “certification” or “abstract”). Said certificates should be obtained at the State Vital Statistics Office in which the birth/marriage/death took place.

If you are married, you must also submit your marriage certificate (license and certificate, in certified copy and legalized with the “Apostille” of the Secretary of State) along with a copy of your spouse’s birth certificate.

If you have children under the legal age (under 18) you must also submit certified copy of birth certificate/s, legalized with the Apostille of the Secretary of State

Discrepancies:

Check all documents word by word to make sure that there are no discrepancies or changes in the names, last names, dates and places of birth. All documents issued outside Italy must bear the name or family name of the interested parties exactly as issued on the original Italian birth certificate; eg. (Brambilla and not Brimbilla)

If there are minor discrepancies in first and last names, please contact your Italian Consulate before presenting your application. If there are major discrepancies in last names, dates, ages, and places of birth these variations or errors must be corrected with an official “affidavit to amend a record” to be requested from the Vital Statistics Office that issued the document or with another appropriate official document.

Please have a list of all the discrepancies that you found in the documents. This is required for the Citizenship Office to expedite your request.

When all the required documents have been translated into Italian, you can either mail them to the Italian Consulate or deliver them in person, along with the application form completely filled out and with a notarized signature.

Application:

Enclose a Xerox copy of a valid I.D., showing your current address and return the application form mentioning the Comune in Italy requested for the registration of your civil status documents. It could be either your ancestor’s Comune of birth, or the Comune where you intend to establish you residency, or the Comune of Rome.

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