The Avellino Court has submitted a new question to the Italian Constitutional Court regarding the citizenship reform approved in 2025. The case involves a minor born abroad and the refusal of a municipality in the province of Avellino to transcribe her birth certificate. In the decree suspending the proceedings and referring the case back to the Constitutional Court on 15 September 2026, the Judge considers the question of the constitutionality of Article 3-bis of Law 91/1992

Law 74/2025 (Art. 3-bis) allows you to apply for citizenship if your grandparent had *exclusive* citizenship, even if your parent has lost it! The Ministry, however, tried to hide the crime by publishing Circular 26185 to say "No, it's not true, the parent's naturalization counts." The judge must apply the law (which opens the way), not the circular (which closes the way). We can ask the judge not to apply the circular. It would be a pilot case, complex but with solid foundat