united-states citizenship dual-citizenship italy
is it possible to have a dual citizenship even if I&#39;m not a national of these countries?
<p>I am planning to apply for Italian citizenship after having lived here for three years, but I am also about to marry a US citizen.</p>

<p>Will it be possible for me to have Italian citizenship and in the future to obtain US citizenship?</p>

<p>The problem is that I am not a national of either of the two.</p>

<p>Your caveat about not being a national of either country is a bit puzzling, because your question is about acquiring the countries' nationality, which implies as a matter of course that you do not presently have either nationality.  After acquiring each country's nationality, of course, you <em>will</em> be a national of that country, so by the time you are a dual citizen of Italy and the US, it will no longer be true that you are not a national of either country.</p>

<p>In other words, it's analogous to asking "Will I be able to get a driver's license after I learn how to drive? The problem is that I don't have a driver's license."</p>

<p>US law does not require you to renounce Italian citizenship if you naturalize as a US citizen.  I don't know Italian law on the matter very well, but the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_nationality_law#Dual_citizenship" rel="nofollow noreferrer">relevant section in Wikipedia</a> says, without citations, that naturalizing elsewhere does not cause loss of Italian citizenship.  Assuming that is true, and that neither country makes any relevant changes in its nationality law, then the answer to your question is <em>yes:</em> you can be a dual citizen of both Italy and the United States.</p>

<p>(In fact, you may at that point hold three or more citizenships if your current country or countries of citizenship does not or do not have laws causing you to lose citizenship when you naturalize in Italy or the US.)</p>
