The final go-ahead arrived yesterday evening for the conversion of the Decree Law on the reacquisition of citizenship for persons of Italian descent residing abroad, passed by the government last March 28 to restrict the requirements needed to obtain a passport in light of the huge volume of applications lying especially at consulates and embassies in Argentina and Brazil, limiting to two generations within which one can claim a relative who is an Italian citizen. The measure introduces a preclusion to the automatic acquisition of citizenship for those born abroad with other citizenship, while a 2-year residency requirement for children of Italian citizens was introduced in the Commission and the elimination of the extendibility of up to 36 months for some proceedings. It also intervenes on evidence in disputes and opens up the possibility of out-of-quota employment for descendants of Italian citizens and with citizenship in countries with strong Italian emigration. Several amendments were also proposed in Montecitorio in particular by opposition elected deputies abroad, from Nicola Carè to Toni Ricciardi, from Christian Di Sanzo to Federica Onori, all of which were rejected by the majority. The only exception, Onori explained, "was my agenda that asked at the very least, having made all these sudden substantial changes with considerable timeframes, to make sure that the Italian Community Abroad is made aware of it, because when you have a child born and you have a year to register it and outside this window everything becomes much more complicated, if not impossible, this thing has to be communicated clearly”.