Ooops, I mean... "naturalized" per se...

Yeah, that is my understanding of the law. My grandmother was never "naturalized" per say, she is a natural-born US cit. and has never renounced her Italian cit., so has been a dual the whole time...

Yeah, thanks Jim, my great grandfather emigrated to the US in 1907, married and had my grandmother in 1913 (making her a dual Italia/US national via jus soli and jure sanguinis) and he wasn't naturalized until 1916, my mother wasn't born until 1949...

I'm glad to hear that the deadline is a rumor ...

I just discovered that I'm an Italian citizen --though unrecognized-- this week... I've always been proud of my Sicilian heritage, and I am gathering the documents now. So I saw an allusion or two to a "make or break" date of Dec. 2005... As in after that date one cant be recognized, is there any ...