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A consolato (consulate) is the Italian diplomatic mission in a foreign country that processes citizenship applications, issues passports, and provides consular services to Italian citizens abroad. There are approximately 120 Italian consulates worldwide.
Each consulate has a defined consular jurisdiction (circoscrizione consolare). Applicants must file at the consulate with jurisdiction over their place of residence. Some consulates (New York, London, São Paulo, Buenos Aires) have multi-year appointment backlogs.
Italian consulates process jure sanguinis applications (consular filing), register AIRE residents, issue Italian passports, and provide notary services for Italian citizens abroad.
Related terms
Consular filing is the process of submitting a citizenship application through the country's consulate in the applicant's country of residence, rather than through a court or ministry in the country of origin.
A consular appointment is a scheduled meeting at a consulate to submit a citizenship application or complete an interview, often with multi-year wait times at popular consulates.
AIRE (Anagrafe degli Italiani Residenti all'Estero) is the registry of Italian citizens living abroad, maintained by each Italian consulate.
Jure sanguinis (Italian for 'right of blood') is the Italian citizenship-by-descent regime, which has no generational limit and is the most accessible CBD regime in Europe.
A 1948 case is a judicial petition for Italian citizenship filed in the civil court of Rome, available to descendants of Italian women who gave birth before January 1, 1948.
The anagrafe is the Italian civil registry office that maintains records of residents, births, marriages, and deaths in each Italian commune (municipality).