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A prefettura (prefecture) is the Italian government's local representative office in each province, which handles certain citizenship matters including denaturalization and naturalization appeals. There are 103 prefetture in Italy, one per province.
For CBD cases, the prefettura is rarely involved — most cases are handled by consulates (consular filing) or the Tribunale di Roma (1948 cases). However, the prefettura may review cases involving disputed citizenship status or naturalization fraud.
The prefettura is headed by a prefetto (prefect), who is appointed by the President of Italy and represents the central government at the provincial level.
Related terms
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).
An atto di nascita is an Italian birth certificate, retrieved from the anagrafe (civil registry) of the commune where the person was born.
Stato civile (civil status) refers to the Italian system of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths, maintained by the anagrafe in each commune.
A comune is an Italian municipality — the basic unit of local government. There are 7,900+ comuni in Italy, each with its own anagrafe (civil registry).