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For years, I was working toward getting an appointment at the Miami consulate to begin my Italian citizenship application.

I tried every single day. The system didn’t work. There were never any appointments available. My account was repeatedly locked, which forced me to go through the password reset process again and again.
I documented all of it. I have screenshots showing password reset request. I have images of the booking system showing no available appointments at the exact times I was logged in. I also have my computer activity logs showing the dates and times I accessed the site. They show a clear pattern of daily attempts, failed access, and system blocks. It wasn’t occasional. It was constant, and it’s all recorded.

This was the process we were told to follow. I was trying to do it the right way and avoid going through the courts and paying for an attorney when my case was straightforward.

There is no minor issue, no break in lineage, nothing unclear. My case is a direct line and should have been as simple as applying through the consulate or the comune.

Eventually, I made a decision. If I couldn’t go through Miami, I would apply in Italy, the place where my great grandparents were born and married. Cattolica Eraclea Sicily I wrote to the consulate explaining my plan and requested my codice fiscale. I contacted my family’s hometown.

Then I waited.

And waited.

Months went by with no response.

No Codice Fiscale, my last document.
Meanwhile, my lease was ending. I had already gathered and apostilled all my documents. I had enough savings to sustain myself for a year, and a small business I could run remotely.

I believed in what I was doing. So I let everything go.

I sold my furniture. I quit my job. I booked a one way flight.
I arrived in Italy on March 8 and rented an Airbnb. I was fully committed.
I found an attorney who could help me obtain my codice fiscale and review my case, but his first available appointment was April 9. I could not move forward without that number, so I waited again.

During that time, I reached out to real estate agents, spoke with translators, and viewed apartments. I was actively preparing to establish my life there. Every action I took became part of the documentation I later submitted to Judge Caranna.

Then on March 27, the Tajani decree dropped.

By that point, I had already given up my home, my job, and my stability to pursue this process in Italy.

Today May 11 2026 Judge Caranna of Palermo denied my case, stating that I filed after March 27. That I waited too long.

The Ministry did not contest the case. Despite that, I was ordered to pay the full court costs. FULL COURT COSTS as if I didn’t lose enough.

And while I was already in Italy, already committed, already dealing with the consequences of that decision, Miami finally sent me the codice fiscale I had requested months earlier.

The last document I needed, the document that ultimately destroyed my life.

Now I am left with two codice fiscale, the possibility of a significant court bill, no job, and about five suitcases worth of possessions. I do not have a car, because I cannot purchase one without income.
I do not have a permanent home, because I cannot secure an apartment without a job.

I did not just lose a citizenship case, the foundation I had built my plans on disappeared.

I lost my home, my job, and thousands in legal expenses because the consulate system did not function, and nothing was done to correct it. I sit here angry at the audacity of this judge to require me to pay even more …after everything I lost

All because of the inefficiency of the Italian government.

I am shook to my core, I am heartbroken, I am angry and I am broken.

This is not how you treat people who want to be a part of the land their GGP’s cultivated,

My family can be traced back as crop farmers, shoe makers, peasants who now have a street named after their family.

My GF raised me and he sold me on this magical island at the tip of the boot from the time I was a little girl.

My grandfathers brother died fighting for Italy, yet the people in Italys government highlight people like Marco Rubio and his connection via his great great great great grandparents and deny mine.

Shame on you Italy, Shame on you!!

What if that is what the CC hinted at in 9.2 .....

Article 97

Article 97 applies to all administrative actions, Not Just Citizen Services. Constitutional text of Article 97: “Public offices are organized according to the provisions of law, to ensure good performance and impartiality of administration.” KEYWORD PUBLIC OFFICE not Services for citizens, but ALL Public administration

These two go hand in hand. The language of 97 does not specifically differentiate the citizen from the administration.

This is exactly what Article 97 prevents: the government creating no-win situations through administrative dysfunction.

“You can’t invoke Article 97 because you’re not a citizen.”

“You can’t become a citizen because you didn’t comply with our system.”

“Our system doesn’t have to comply with Article 97 because you’re not a citizen.”

If the government argues that Article 97 doesn’t apply because I wasn’t a recognized citizen. This argument fails for these five reasons:

1. Article 97 governs ALL public administration conduct, not just services to citizens it applies to citizenship acquisition procedures just as it applies to visa procedures, asylum procedures, etc.
   1. Under pre-decree law, I was a citizen whose status needed recognition, not a foreigner seeking to acquire citizenship. Prenot@mi was the system for citizens (like me) to access that recognition
   2. Even if citizenship was not yet concrete, I had a legally protected interest (interesse legittimo) in a fair administrative process. Article 97 protects procedural fairness regardless of the substantive outcome guarantee
   3. The Constitutional Court explicitly left open whether people who initiated procedures but didn’t get appointments should be protected. Article 97 provides the constitutional basis for answering “yes.”
   4. Accepting the government’s argument would create constitutional absurdity: the government could violate Article 97 with impunity in citizenship procedures by claiming Article 97 doesn’t apply to non-citizens—this circular logic defeats Article 97’s purpose entirely

So it feels like Article 97 applies, it was violated by Prenot@mi, and requires interpreting a-bis) to protect those who demonstrated intent but were blocked by government administrative failure.