I am new here and am struggling to find information on my grandfather, Livio Albanito. Particularly naturalization information. I do know that he came to the US from Italy in 1929 when he was 17. He arrived in New York. The next record I was able to find was 8 years later when he was married in Chicago. He died in Chicago in the 1980s and spent his whole life there once he arrived there, as far as I know.
My father was born in 1946 and is telling me he is not sure but he doesn't think my grandfather was ever naturalized. I have searched on ancestry.com as well as a few other sites and have not been able to find anything pertaining to citizenship/naturalization.
I recently submitted a request for a search to USCIS but am now reading that it takes many many months to even get a response.
Obviously I will need to obtain many expensive and hard to acquire documents if I do qualify for Italian citizenship, however, I do not want to start gathering those documents if by chance my grandfather WAS naturalized before my father was born.
That is why I am turning to you veteran researchers! Does anyone have any resources or databases that can be searched that I am not finding or able to find? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
