Legal-rights NGO ASGI (Associazione per gli Studi Giuridici sull’Immigrazione) held a three-hour webinar on the afternoon of 4 March 2026 to brief lawyers, social-service staff and corporate compliance teams on the Constitutional Court hearing scheduled for 11 March. The case could upend current rules that limit Italian citizenship transmission to only one foreign-born generation on the maternal line. During the session, immigration attorney Laura Furno explained how companies with large expatriate populations stand to benefit if the Court widens eligibility: dual nationals would no longer need work permits, simplifying intra-EU postings and long-term secondments. The webinar also covered practicalities such as obtaining civil-status documents from Latin-American registries and navigating appointment backlogs at Italian consulates. ASGI’s training forms part of the MEDIATO project, funded by the Compagnia di San Paolo foundation, aimed at up-skilling frontline immigration professionals. Attendees received a checklist of red-flag issues—among them the risk that an employee could lose facilitated-tax status when switching from foreign to Italian payroll after a successful citizenship claim. Employers are advised to audit HR databases now, identifying staff who might qualify for citizenship-by-descent so that mobility timelines and tax equalisation budgets can be updated quickly if the Court rules favourably next week.
Source: ASGI / PiemonteImmigrazione
