What it is
A citizenship matter is a long journey of documents: birth and marriage certificates, attestations, translations, legalisations, deadlines not to miss. We keep it moving without stress.
We explain from the start what path lies ahead, which documents are needed and how long it may take, no empty promises, with a clear picture of your case.
Citizenship runs along two different tracks, and it helps to know which one you are on. Reacquiring or having Albanian citizenship recognised, often for people of Albanian origin or who lost it along the way, is not the same procedure as an Italian citizenship file, with its own offices, its own forms and its own supporting documents. We look at where you actually stand before spending your time and money, and we build the file around that answer instead of a generic checklist. A lot of the people who write to us live in the Albanian community in Italy and are not sure which door to knock on first: getting the track right is already half the job.
When citizenship is claimed by descent, jure sanguinis, the work becomes a piece of family history on paper. You go back along a line of ancestors and gather their birth, marriage and death records, each one translated and legalised so it is accepted, and the further back the line reaches, the deeper into the archives the search tends to go. We know where these acts are kept in Albania and how to request them, which spares you letters that go unanswered from abroad. Every generation you add means another set of acts to locate and legalise, which is why we map the whole line before requesting anything.
Old records are rarely tidy. A surname spelled one way for the grandfather and another way for the father, an act that was never registered, a date that shifts between two documents, a certificate sitting in an archive that no longer answers the phone: these gaps have to be reconciled before the file goes in, not after it comes back rejected. We flag them early and tell you plainly what can be corrected and what needs a different route. A correction to a name or a date, made at the right office, often unblocks a file that had looked stuck for years.
Most of this can be done without you travelling for every step. You send what you have, we request the rest, and where a signature or a power of attorney is required we tell you in advance, working from the office on the SH1 in Mamurras. We prepare and follow the Albanian part of the file and, where an Italian procedure runs alongside it, we help you understand what it asks and keep the two in step. On timing, be wary of anyone who promises a fixed date: it depends on the institutions, and we would rather give you a realistic picture and update it than sell you a deadline.
How it works
Case assessment
We look together at where your matter stands and your path.
The file
We prepare the document list and what to obtain and where.
Gathering & translations
We gather, translate and legalise the documents needed.
We see it through
We stay with you through the whole procedure, with clear updates.
FAQ
- How long does a citizenship matter take?
- It depends on the case and the institutions. We give you a realistic picture from the start, without promising timelines outside our control.
- Do you help with missing documents?
- Yes: we tell you exactly what’s missing, where to get it, and we prepare the complete file.
- What does citizenship by descent, jure sanguinis, involve?
- It means proving an unbroken line back to the ancestor the claim rests on, with each birth, marriage and death record gathered, translated and legalised. Much of the effort is archival, and we handle the Albanian side of that search, so you are not writing to offices from another country and waiting in the dark.
- Do you handle the Italian side of the citizenship too?
- We prepare and follow the Albanian part, and for the Italian procedure we orient you and coordinate so the documents line up with what the Italian offices expect. Everything is handled by lawyer Ejona Dajcaj, a member of the National Chamber of Advocates, in Albanian, Italian or English. Speaking directly with the lawyer, rather than through a chain of intermediaries, is often what keeps a citizenship file from drifting.
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