I'm helping a family member apply for Italian dual citizenship by descent. He should be eligible, but I recently encountered a situation which makes me afraid that our application will not be successful. The applicant's grandfather (the immigrant in the line), through whom he should derive citizenship, was divorced in Brooklyn in 1919. This was prior to the marriage from which the applicant descends. The Italian consulate requires birth, marriage, death, and divorce records for everyone in the line of descent from the immigrant. 1. Am I correct in my understanding that since both parties to this divorce are long-since deceased, there is simply no way to access the divorce record? 2. Has anyone applied for Italian dual citizenship in a case in which there was a divorce? Will the consulate require the paperwork even for a marriage from which the applicant did not descend? Thanks, Kathleen

He is out of luck for the divorce records for another four years.  See the following for more information. http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/1jd/supctmanh/county_clerk_records.shtml On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 09:15 PM, Kathleen Scarlett O'Hara Naylor via wrote: > I'm helping a family member apply for Italian dual citizenship by > descent. > He should be eligible, but I recently encountered a situation which > makes > me afraid that our application will not be successful. The applicant's > grandfather (the immigrant in the line), through whom he should derive > citizenship, was divorced in Brooklyn in 1919. This was prior to the > marriage from which the applicant descends. The Italian consulate > requires > birth, marriage, death, and divorce records for everyone in the line > of > descent from the immigrant. > > 1. Am I correct in my understanding that since both parties to this > divorce > are long-since deceased, there is simply no way to access the divorce > record?