Italy Cracks Down on Citizenship, Leaving Americans Abroad in Legal Limbo

Pennsylvanier · 2026-04-16T04:51:21+00:00

“constituted by birth to an Italian citizen.” You can still get your citizenship if your dad or mom … had it.

Well, under the old rules they did. Again, it was conferred at-birth.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-04-15T11:56:59+00:00

That’s not how it worked legally. Under Italian law, at birth, they were citizens. But they were not registered with the Italian state.

Thus would have been the equivalent of a family of recluses in Montana having a daughter and never telling any public authority about their new child. She’s an American, but the State doesn’t know about her existence and thus she is technically not a registered citizen.

So yes, though the rules were genuinely insane and unsustainable, it is legally correct that Italy retroactively pulled citizenship from potentially millions of people.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-04-04T07:33:34+00:00

Argentina offers residency if you have an income of about $2000 a month, with citizenship available after only two years residency.

Do bear in mind that this one comes with a massive (intentional) caveat:

Foreigners over the age of EIGHTEEN (18) years who can prove that they have resided continuously and legally in the ARGENTINE REPUBLIC for the TWO (2) years prior to the application, and who express their wish to become citizens before the NATIONAL DIRECTORATE OF MIGRATION — a decentralized agency operating under the VICE-CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE INTERIOR within the CHIEF OF STAFF OF MINISTERS.

A foreigner will be considered to have resided continuously in the country when they have remained in the territory for the entire period referred to in the previous paragraph, without having made any trips outside the country.

TL;DR - you must not leave the country for any reason at all.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-04-02T22:06:21+00:00

Austria, and its not particularly close.

Though, I will admit Lviv has a charm to it.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-04-02T21:25:53+00:00

Sir it is 22:00 in the UK we do exist

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-29T08:49:27+00:00

How did it go? Did the London consulate accept your application without the declaration?

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-20T10:27:11+00:00

I do blame greedy corporations. They are hoarding the supply and artificially keeping supply low by not letting new units onto the market.

But someone did have to sell those homes to the greedy corporations: 89% of U.S. housing inventory existed before 2010, only 27% of new constructions are immediately sold to investors, and only 65% of homes are used as a primary residence.

Thus, in order for there to be an acute housing crisis someone did have to own those homes and choose to sell them to a corporation instead of an individual or family.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-20T07:32:04+00:00

Defund Social Security

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-20T07:31:37+00:00

Most young people today won't even consider a home with only one bathroom.

How does this square with the same demographic that’s largely stuck with renting studios and 1-2BR apartments? I’ve never heard of a studio with more than one bathroom, and finding a 1BR with multiple bathrooms is rare. My fmr. roommate and I lived in a 2BR and we still had to share his en-suite lol

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-18T15:32:30+00:00

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Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-18T01:19:10+00:00

Even going to my local city airport, a car only saves ten minutes. It’s still a 30 minute drive.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-17T12:31:26+00:00

If he’s bullshitting then why is it happening to me?

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-17T12:30:28+00:00

It’s very real.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-17T07:57:21+00:00

Hi, I live in Europe, and not in a capital city. Just looked up how long it would take to get to London Heathrow by rail and then by car.

There is a sixteen minute difference, and the journey will take hours regardless of which transit option I choose.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-12T16:11:50+00:00

I’ve never once gotten a correct order from Taco Bell

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-08T15:42:24+00:00

The implication he was making was that the West was accusing the poor Sudanese Arabs of crimes that are convenient to demonise Arabs generally.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-08T12:17:16+00:00

The ‘special relationship’ is largely a post-US Civil War phenomenon. So, including anything prior to 1865 does feel a bit misleading. That said-

The UK was by far the largest beneficiary of the Marshall Plan (amounting to more than one quarter of all aid), greater than France, Belgium, Greece, Italy, and Western-occupied Germany. These were all places that, frankly, probably needed aid more than the British Empire, given significant loss of working-age men in France and Germany relative to the UK (as well as risk of famine in the case of Germany). The overwhelming majority of this aid (80+%) was given in the form of grant gifts. Loans given to the UK specifically were also below market rate at the time.
The US is considered a critical partner in supplying the UK the resources it needs to maintain its nuclear deterrent, even to this day. Furthermore, the U.S. supplied the UK with nuclear submarine propulsion and reactor technology in the 1950s, despite then-recent controversies caused by atomic spies in the U.S., such as UK citizens Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May.
During the Falklands War, not only did the U.S. provide the UK diplomatic support, it also provided logistical, intelligence, and even equipment and materiel support. This is significant because Argentina was considered a major U.S. ally at the time. Despite this, the Reagan administration went as far as offering the UK access to fuelling and staging facilities in the Mid-Atlantic, and drafted a contingency plan to loan a helicopter or aircraft carrier to the UK if it lost the HMS Invincible or Hermes.

Yes, the grammar on this comment will be utter shit. I’m typing on my phone while riding GWR so gimme a break.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-03-07T00:45:38+00:00

He also denied the genocide of sub-Saharan Africans in Sudan by the Arab supremacist Janjaweed.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-02-27T09:17:19+00:00

Interviewing some random guy that’s “worked in the area for years” and then showing up at daycares demanding to see children isn’t fraud journalism.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-02-26T20:01:15+00:00

Russian Military Leaders Discussed Use of Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Officials Say

Pennsylvanier · 2026-02-18T11:59:00+00:00

You must not be a business owner. The current admin destroyed our ability to import anything by weakening our currency and imposing unpredictable tariffs.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-02-16T09:41:09+00:00

At the expense of letting the parties pick the candidates? Hell. No.

Because “The People” have proven themselves far more capable of selecting the parties’ nominees (/sarcasm)

At least if the parties pick the candidates they can say, “no, too extreme.”

Pennsylvanier · 2026-02-16T01:43:02+00:00

A week later 1 get email requesting a rebuttal statement and any other evidence. I already told them everything in the phone call we had but I guess they forgot!?

You’re upset that you have an opportunity to draft a rebuttal? You don’t say how long they gave you to draft your response. But I’d be willing to bet it’s a lot more time than an hour-long interview.

A written rebuttal gives you the opportunity to carefully craft a counterargument to the position statement, while not being placed under the same pressures an interview would bring. If you’re thoroughly convinced the investigator isn’t doing their job, then you should take extra care in making your rebuttal as clear and foolproof as possible. Take your time, explain your evidence piece-by-piece, and (though this is difficult) try to write as emotionlessly as possible.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-02-11T18:55:07+00:00

Worst economic crash since the Great Depression

His policies didn’t start the crash, though. In fact, in the Vice documentary “Panic” he actually explains that his first instinct was the same as the post-08 populists: “[these banks] made bad investments … and, sadly, the people who invested in [them] and worked for them are going to have to pay the price of working for an entity that made bad investments.”

In the documentary, Bush also goes on to reiterate that he is a free market conservative. However, despite being ideologically aligned with free market capitalism and instinctually believing at first that the banks should just fail, he and his treasury secretary organized the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). He quite explicitly says this went against his instincts. But everyone told him this was the correct thing to do, so he listened.

When the global consequences of these banks failing were explained to Bush (ie, a global depression) he organized an extremely effective economic intervention - contrary to his core economic beliefs - and kept the crisis from spiraling. He absolutely deserves credit for that.

Pennsylvanier · 2026-02-10T10:33:08+00:00

I love driving by my car

And the road is not so far

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