Italian dual citizenship?

Italian dual citizenship.?

• So I went through the entire labyrinth of acquiring apostilles for all my documents, waiting for a year or so for an appointment at my consulate only to find out that I cannot get my italian dual citizenship because my mom was naturalized in the U.S. before I was born. So let me get it straight, even though my grandparents are both still citizens I cannot become one because of something my mother did before I existed? My older and brother and sister can become citizens, but I cannot? I followed the document Jure Sanguinis sent to me by a consulate and followed this section that SEEMED to have applied to me: Your grandfather or your grandmother (if either your mother or father was born after January 1, 1948) was an Italian citizen at the time of your parent’s birth. Neither you nor your Italian parent ever renounced your Italian citizenship. In this case you must provide the following documents: 1. Birth certificate of grandfather or grandmother (and death certificate, if applicable). 2. Marriage certificate of grandparents (and divorce decree, if applicable). 3. If applicable, Naturalization certificate of grandfather or grandmother or letter from INS (Immigration Office) certifying that the grandparent did not become a naturalized US citizen. In the event that naturalization of a grandparent did occur, the naturalization must have occurred AFTER the child’s birth (your parent) to qualify for Italian citizenship. No where in there does it specify that my mother had to be a citizen at the time of my birth. I'm pretty pissed that I invested time and money into something that I can't even go through with over such an arbitrary, obscure technicality.

• Answer:

  It does right here: "Neither you nor your Italian parent ever renounced your Italian citizenship." She renounced her citizenship to become a US citizen.