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The complete kit

Everything the process needs, in the order you need it

Nine modules, from the document plan for your case to the day you file. Written from the law itself, the ministry circular, and the 2026 rulings, with a dated source beside every claim.

The three rules this kit rests on, at their own publishers: Decree-Law 36 of 2025 as converted by Law 74 of 2025, in the Official Gazette; judgment 63 of 2026, at the Constitutional Court, deposited 30 April 2026; judgment 24045 of 2026, at the Court of Cassation, deposited 26 July 2026. All three checked 10 September 2026.

Who this is not for

If your only Italian ancestor is a great-great-grandparent, no product on earth helps you today, and ours will say so. The free check tells you that in two minutes, before you spend anything.

If you have a child under 18 and a parent who is Italian by birth, your route is a free declaration to the state. We will point you at it and sell you nothing.

What is inside

Four more modules cover filing, the wait, blocked lines, and cases grandfathered under the old law.

Read the free answers first, no email
Five ways a file comes back

Every one of these is a row in the Action Plan.

  • Searched one spelling of the name. The plan names every record to take the spellings from.
  • Ordered a bare certificate. The plan names the full act with the margin notes.
  • An informational copy of an American record. The plan says certified, and why.
  • A middle-generation marriage record nobody ordered. It is a row in the plan.
  • A bundle 95 percent complete: returned, and the appointment lost. The filing row lists what the bundle must contain.
Each line on the left is a "what breaks the case" field from the Action Plan itself. The line on the right is the row that carries it.
Five clocks, and the order they start in

The four ordering lanes can run at the same time. Among them the federal search has the longest lead time, so it sets the schedule.

The four ordering lanes start on the same day. Filing comes after them.

The federal naturalization search Months, historically
The Italian act, from the comune Three days to never. Plan on weeks
The American records Weeks
Apostilles and translations 10 to 12 business days, federal
Filing, and the wait after it Years
The words at the end of each bar are the plan's own, and the bars are drawn in that order: days, weeks, months, years. Nothing here is a number the plan does not give. Bar lengths are categories, not measured durations, and none of them is a forecast for your own file.
The document review

Upload what you already have, including bad scans and phone photos. The app reads each one, tells you which slot it fills, and shows you what is still missing.

Every value it reads is shown to you beside the original image, and nothing becomes a fact in your file until you confirm it. Where two documents disagree, for example a name spelled Giuseppe in one and Joseph in the other, it shows you both and explains what consulates ask for in that situation.

Why it works this way
Old handwriting is misread often enough that the machine reads and you decide.
Price
For the application
The Self-Help Kit
149dollars, once

The plan, plus what the application itself needs.

What is included

  • Everything in the Action Plan
  • Nine modules in the order you need them, from the law to filing
  • The document review: upload what you have, see what each record proves and what is still missing
  • Letters ready to send to an Italian comune, in Italian and English
  • The apostille and translation guide, state by state
Get the Self-Help Kit, 149 dollars

Delivered as a link by email. No account, no password.

A second family line, added to a kit you already hold, is 49 dollars. For scale: the consulate charges 600 euros to receive an application, and does not refund it. Read Law 207 of 2024 in the Official Gazette, checked 10 September 2026. Bersani Law Firm publishes 5,000 to 12,000 dollars for full service, read in its 2026 cost guide on 10 September 2026.

Thirty days, full refund, one email.

We publish what the official source says, with its date. When a rule moves we republish the page, with the date of the change.

Questions people actually ask

Is this legal advice?

No, and it is built so that it cannot become that. We publish rules with their sources, and show your facts beside them. You draw the conclusion. Nobody here reviews your case.

Why is it so much cheaper than a firm?

Because a firm sells you their hours and we sell you the research once. The parts that genuinely need a lawyer, chiefly a pre-1948 maternal line, we tell you so plainly.

The law keeps changing. Will this go stale?

We publish what the official source says, with its date. When a rule moves we republish the page, with the date of the change. That is also why the open questions board exists. Three courts moved this law in 2026 alone.

What happens right after I pay?

You get an email with a link that opens the kit. No account, no password, nothing to install. Keep the email: the link is your key.

What if it turns out my line is cut?

The free check runs before you pay, and it is honest about closed lines. If you paid anyway and it does not help you, the refund is one email away for thirty days.