Italian nationality law is the law of Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 governing the acquisition, transmission and loss of Italian citizenship. Like many continental European countries it is largely based on jus sanguinis

Jus sanguinis

Ius sanguinis is a social policy by which citizenship is not determined by place of birth, but by having a parent who are citizens of the nation...

. It also incorporates many elements that are seen as favourable to the Italian diaspora

Italian diaspora

The term Italian diaspora refers to the large-scale migration of Italians away from Italy in the period roughly beginning with the unification of Italy in 1861 and ending with the Italian economic miracle in the 1960s...

. The Italian Parliament's most recent major update of Italian nationality law is Law no. 91 of 1992, which came into force on August 15, 1992.