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Attribution of ius soli citizenship as a residual and supplementary criterion

Italian citizenship is granted:

  • to individuals whose parents are unknown, stateless, or are unable to transmit their citizenship to the child according to the legislation of their country of origin (art. 1, paragraph 1, letter b of Law no. 91/92);
  • to a child of unknown parentage found abandoned on Italian territory and whose citizenship cannot be determined (art. 1, paragraph 2 of Law no. 91/92).