Legal-rights NGO ASGI (Associazione per gli Studi Giuridici sull’Immigrazione) held a three-hour webinar on the afternoon of 4 March 2026 to brief lawyers, social-service staff and corporate compliance teams on the Constitutional Court hearing scheduled for 11 March. The case could upend current rules that limit Italian citizenship transmission to only one foreign-born generation on the maternal line.
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To help organisations and individuals navigate the surge in citizenship and visa paperwork that a favourable ruling could trigger, VisaHQ provides an online portal for Italy (https://www.visahq.com/italy/) that consolidates up-to-date requirements, pre-screens documents and offers courier submission options, easing the administrative load on HR teams and private applicants alike.
During the session, immigration attorney Laura Furno explained how companies with large expatriate populations stand to benefit if the Court widens eligibility: dual nationals would no longer need work permits, simplifying intra-EU postings and long-term secondments. The webinar also covered practicalities such as obtaining civil-status documents from Latin-American registries and navigating appointment backlogs at Italian consulates. ASGI’s training forms part of the MEDIATO project, funded by the Compagnia di San Paolo foundation, aimed at up-skilling frontline immigration professionals. Attendees received a checklist of red-flag issues—among them the risk that an employee could lose facilitated-tax status when switching from foreign to Italian payroll after a successful citizenship claim. Employers are advised to audit HR databases now, identifying staff who might qualify for citizenship-by-descent so that mobility timelines and tax equalisation budgets can be updated quickly if the Court rules favourably next week.
To help organisations and individuals navigate the surge in citizenship and visa paperwork that a favourable ruling could trigger, VisaHQ provides an online portal for Italy (https://www.visahq.com/italy/) that consolidates up-to-date requirements, pre-screens documents and offers courier submission options, easing the administrative load on HR teams and private applicants alike.
During the session, immigration attorney Laura Furno explained how companies with large expatriate populations stand to benefit if the Court widens eligibility: dual nationals would no longer need work permits, simplifying intra-EU postings and long-term secondments. The webinar also covered practicalities such as obtaining civil-status documents from Latin-American registries and navigating appointment backlogs at Italian consulates. ASGI’s training forms part of the MEDIATO project, funded by the Compagnia di San Paolo foundation, aimed at up-skilling frontline immigration professionals. Attendees received a checklist of red-flag issues—among them the risk that an employee could lose facilitated-tax status when switching from foreign to Italian payroll after a successful citizenship claim. Employers are advised to audit HR databases now, identifying staff who might qualify for citizenship-by-descent so that mobility timelines and tax equalisation budgets can be updated quickly if the Court rules favourably next week.
