[amorak]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

Your father needs to have been an Italian citizen when you were born also, I believe? I went this route but was denied because my father (born in Italy) got his Canadian citizenship about four years before I was born.

Here's why - you've been given a straight example - It's a chain, wiki says its a chain... it's broken by stupid sole-citizenship policies of the early-to-late 1900's that had you lose one cizitenship the second you took another...There was no such thing as dual citizenship. So your great grandpa had to have had your grandpa before he got Cdn citzenship (which you said is true), but then your grandpa had to have italian citizenship when your dad was born. Since your g-pa was born here, he had Canadian citizenship at birth and did not have italian citizenship - Thus the chain is broken.

It's meant to be seen like this:

As long as an italian citizen has a child while being an italian citizen, that right of birth is passed to the child. That DID occur for your ggpa, but your gpa did not provide the same for your dad, by virtue of your gpa being born here a Canadian citizen with no italian citizenship. His right to italian citizenship is correct, as you say, but he never got it. You can't go back and use that to complete jure sanguinis. Your dad did the same, even though the chain was brokken by his dad, to you.

You are applying false logic by thinking you can go tell the consulate that your great grandpa was an italian citizen when your grandpa was born, and then, irrespective of the chain breaking, twice with your grandpa and your dad then you and your dad, that somehow it's still together.