Citizen Services

Citizenship Types

Citizenship by descent

  • Overview
  • Fees
  • Documents Required

  • Overview

    • You can submit your application to this Consulate if you are a permanent resident in Queensland or the Northern Territory.
    • Your application is individual and must be presented in person, together with all the supporting documents.
    • In order to present your application and related documents you need to make an appointment online.
    • If a family member, residing in our jurisdiction, is interested in submitting an application for the recognition of Italian citizenship in the future, the same ancestors’ original documentation can be used, therefore it is not necessary to present this documentation again, but the applicant must present his/her own original certificates.
    • Residents of Queensland or the Northern Territory whose family members have obtained recognition of Italian citizenship at a different Consulate, or in Italy, must submit all original documentation of the Italian ancestor to this office.
    • If you are concerned that the reacquisition of Italian citizenship may affect your Australian citizenship, you should contact the appropriate Australian authorities.

  • Fees

    • 90.50 AUD – VFS Global Service Fee
    • 473.60 AUD by card - Consular Fees – Citizenship by descent
    • 468.40 AUD by cash- Consular Fees – Citizenship by descent

    Consulate fee changes every Quarter

  • Documents Required

    Italian Citizenship by Descent Form