Jure sanguinis: What is my best option to take?

[erauch]

So I've been aware of jure sanguinis for a while but I never considered looking into it until today.
I did a little ancestry.com research and discovered that of my two paternal great-grandfathers who were born in italy:

• One seems to have naturalized as a US citizen long before my grandfather was born
• The other has a petition for naturalization dated two years before the birth of my grandmother (I'm not sure if there's some certificate that would still need to be issued but I assume it'd have occurred within those two years).

So based on this it seems a paternal route isn't possible. From what I can tell my only option is to file a court case in Italy to get past the 1948 rule. If that's the case here are my possible routes:

-----: Great-great grandfather/grandmother -> great grandmother -> grandmother -> mother -> me [/indent]
-----: Great-great grandfather/grandmother -> great grandmother -> grandfather-> mother -> me [/indent]

I've read these cases can get held up if you go with one route and the court thinks another route is more appropriate. To me both these paths seem pretty equivalent and if I had to choose I'd go with my grandmother since her side is more documented. But I wonder, since everything seems to be male biased, if the court would find the grandfather approach more suitable?

Either way I have to make the case to allow a great grandmother to pass citizenship before 1948, but in the grandmother route I'd also have to make the case for my pre 1948 born grandmother to pass it on to my mother.

What do you all think?

[mler]

Never assume that a petition was followed by an actual naturalization. Any number of things may have delayed or ended the process. Until you find an actual naturalization date, you cannot be sure he actually naturalized.

Either maternal line would be fine because both are 1948 cases. That your maternal gf is a male in the line is really insignificant. However, you will have to prove that your paternal line is not viable, and for that, you will need an actual naturalization date. The petition alone won’t cut it.