08/27/07 05:33 - ID#40760

I am (an) Italian

Well just about everybody knows that that is what I am ethnically but soon enough I will be able to really say I am an an Italian when I reclaim my citizenship. I finally got all the paperwork I needed - really in order. I guess it would be cooler if I could say it in Italian - I think it would be "Sono un italiano"

The next step is dragging myself and my stuff to the consulate in New York City and probably dragging my mother and maybe brother along with me. I suggested we take (e:mike) to and make it a Mom and me trip, lol. I wonder if there is a consolute in Toronto I could go to considering I am applying to reclaim my Italian citizenship which has little to do with America. Seems like it should not matter where the consulate is.

I am kind of excited and a little be apprehensive because it opens up so many possibilities as a world citizen.

leetee writes at 05:02:58 08/28/07 - Comment #23268: i'm still just canadian. people ask me all the time if i am a u.s.citizen and when i say no, they think i am illegal, as though there is nothing inbetween citizen and illegal immigrant.

so... will you travel to canada on your italian or us pasport?

jenks writes at 04:18:53 08/28/07 - Comment #23265: paul, how does this work? how are you an italian citizen? cool! I wish I were (more) italian- haha.

(and tiny, do you speak italian?)

jason writes at 08:15:48 08/28/07 - Comment #23223: Cool, now when I call you Paolo I am not technically wrong anymore!

paul writes at 11:30:40 08/27/07 - Comment #23217: It is actually way easier for mom because she just has to prove she never rejected her Italian citizenship. Then we would both get it.

fellyconnelly writes at 10:50:45 08/27/07 - Comment #23204: lucky!
i wish i could be a citizen of anything-other-than-america!

tinypliny writes at 10:39:06 08/27/07 - Comment #23199: oooooh, Lei parla l'italiano?

mike writes at 09:37:42 08/27/07 - Comment #23187: OMG Paul do it so then I can do it. See Paul has to prove lots of stuff but if he does then I only have to prove he is my brother!! by the by mom just said she thinks we should go to NYC.

libertad writes at 08:54:48 08/27/07 - Comment #23181: That is so great. You have an EZ out if things get hairy around here ;) You still can't go to Cuba though, it isn't legal for dual citizens either.

paul writes at 06:07:45 08/27/07 - Comment #23168: Mike, this could be good for you: MILITARY SERVICE
Decree n. 226 of 23 August 2004 (G.U. n. 204 of 23/8/2004), calls for, as of January 2005, the early suspension of obligatory military service and the establishment of professional military service.