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In depth
A consular appointment is a scheduled meeting at a consulate to submit a citizenship application or complete an interview. For Italian citizenship, consular appointments at popular consulates (New York, London, São Paulo) can have 2-4 year wait times.
Booking a consular appointment is one of the first steps in a CBD case. Some consulates (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) require appointments to be booked online months in advance; others accept walk-ins or mail-in applications.
Ancestra monitors consular appointment availability across major consulates worldwide and books the earliest available slot for clients.
Example
Italian citizenship applicants in New York typically wait 2-4 years for a consular appointment at the NYC Italian consulate.
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.
Citizenship by descent (CBD) is the legal right to acquire a country's citizenship through one's ancestors — typically a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent — without being born in that country, based on the principle of jus sanguinis.
Jus sanguinis (Latin for 'right of blood') is the principle that grants citizenship based on the citizenship of one's parents or ancestors, regardless of where one is born.
Jus soli (Latin for 'right of the soil') grants citizenship based on being born in the territory of the state, regardless of the parents' citizenship.
Dual citizenship (also called multiple citizenship) is the status of being a citizen of two or more countries simultaneously, with the rights and obligations of each.
Naturalization is the legal process by which a non-citizen acquires the citizenship of a country, typically after meeting residency, language, and integration requirements.