Applicant
- Fully completed application form, to be signed during the appointment.
- Valid passport and photocopy of the photo-and-signature page.
- Proof of residence within this consular district (e.g., utility bills, council tax bill – no driving licence or bank statement, unless the applicant does not have any bills under their name).
- Original long-form birth certificate, duly legalized by apostille and translated into Italian.
- Registry Office certificates: marriage certificate, divorce decree or spouse’s death certificate (if applicable), and eventual second marriage certificate.
Italian certificates must be original, of recent emission, issued by the competent Italian municipality.
British certificates must be original, issued by the British General Register Office, duly legalized by apostille and translated into Italian.
Italian Parent
- Certificate of residence records – “certificato storico di residenza anagrafica” (issued by the competent Italian municipality/municipalities).
- Registry Office certificates: full birth certificate (“atto integrale di nascita”), marriage certificate, divorce decree or spouse’s death certificate (if applicable), and eventual second marriage certificate.
Italian certificates must be original, of recent emission, issued by the competent Italian municipality.
British certificates must be original, issued by the British General Register Office, duly legalized by apostille and translated into Italian. - Declarations of Negative British Naturalisation, issued by The National Archives and by the UK Home Office Border Agency.
Must be original, duly legalized by apostille (the apostille must legalise the signature of the officer issuing the certificate), and translated into Italian.
Please request said certificates with all correct details of the Italian parent (e.g., full name and surname at birth, dates and places of birth and death, any alternative names/surnames).
PLEASE NOTE! The Home Office declaration of negative naturalisation is not needed only if the first ancestor born abroad was over 18 years old at the date of 30/09/1986.