Glad to hear your process is moving along Bill, it sounds like it's in the bag. I also have had the same experience with ICA in terms of their customer service. If I had questions or needed help, they responded quickly and satisfactorily.

I won't be traveling to Italy for the Jubilee, but I'll be ...

Marco actually represented me when it came time for the trial in Potenza, but I had 0 contact with him directly. Everything flowed through a rotating door of paralegals and document specialists, who were all very competent, and each handled a different aspect of the process.

It was the first one that came up in a Google search when I was looking around in 2020, and seemed to be the largest. Also, their youtube videos with their primary lawyer (Marco Permunian) conveyed a significant degree of competence / experience.

Full service includes all relevant records search; they conducted naturalization searches for my relevant ancestors at various points in time, and provided those results as official certificates to be included in the packet.

Thank you, I intend to.

I went with full-service; their advertised cost at the time that I retained them was 10k EUR, and that's what I paid to them. Keep in mind, this was in 2020, so I expect prices to have gone up. They were flexible with me, I paid in 2 installments. And just because it was full service didn't leave me ...

For anyone interested in Filipo Palumbo in the court of Potenza: my case passed, and I am now a citizen with passport in-hand. You can follow my other thread for timeline details etc: https://www.italiangenealogy.com/forum/topic/54515

I used ICA, and am very happy with them. Per my recollection, my ...

Bill,

Thank you for your congratulations, and apologies for the radio silence — for some reason this board is not notifying me of replies to this thread.

Much has happened in the interim; I now have an Italian passport in-hand. Let me update the timeline once more before getting to your questions ...

The certificate of no appeal came through today. So the updated timeline:

June 2020: begin eligibility research
January 2021: engage ICA, begin collecting official documents
... [other stuff, corrections, translations, etc] ...
February 2023: file in Court of Potenza
March 2023: receive hearing ...

Hey Bill,

As it happens, I have *not* received the final statement yet. There is a delay, here is how it was explained to me:

Agenzia delle Entrate must register the judgment and then report it to the court before the court is able to issue this certificate, and this public body in this period ...

Hi @afecad,

I'm preparing to apply for Italian citizenship based on my GGF, who never acquired US citizenship. What is ICA? It sounds like they were very helpful in your case.

Thanks!


ICA stands for italiancitizenshipassistance.com

They are one of the larger (if not the largest) agencies ...

After 3 years and 8 months of effort, I received my judgment this morning of Full Acceptance on my 1948 case.

I've posted elsewhere in this forum, but to briefly recap my timeline:

June 2020: begin eligibility research
January 2021: engage ICA, begin collecting official documents
... [other stuff ...

Name discrepancies are common, and come in all sizes and flavors. Things change over time.

The most important aspect of this process is gathering enough official documentation, i.e. a paper trail, to show as strong evidence that you are, in fact, a descendant of your eligible ancestor.

It does not ...

Hi

If you're at the very beginning stages of gathering documents, it will be quite some time before you file. At least a year, almost certainly more. 2-3 seems to be about typical from my own experience and other anecdotes I've come across. It depends on the complexity of the lineage, difficulty of ...

Another bit of context I've recently learned:

The judge in my region has recently ruled favorably on another 1948 case (not mine). It took him 5 months to arrive at a decision in that particular case.

It appears that the bulk of the waiting period for qualdom was between the filing and hearing, nearly 18 months, which indicates that this probably took place in the court of Rome back before the rule change given that that court was so backed-up. Also evidenced by the fact that qualdom's judge ...