Problems with documents - Italian citizenship through marriage (Us citizen residing in Italy)?

Question

I'm a US citizenship living in Naples, Italy. I'm trying to applying for my italian citizenship since I live, and work here. I lived in Boston, Mass. for 4 yrs for academic reasons and I grew up in NY. I got my city/state/and FBI documents from both states. Ii got them notorized/and apostilled. Now they are saying that I needed to legalize them at the italian consulate in ny/and boston and also that I needed to translate and legalize the translation as well at the consulate. any idea if I can have this done in Naples, Italy since I've just flown back from ny.

Answer 1

Every document issued in a foreign country that needs to be produced to an Italian authority needs to be legalized, but the "apostille" eliminates the need for legalization. That's what is written in the webpage of the Italian Consulate General in NY (the link of the English page is not working).

For the translation, I think that you could get a "sworn translation" (traduzione giurata) in Italy, that means the translator has to take a written oath at the court house (Cancelleria del Tribunale) stating that the Italian translation is faithful to the English original.

Try asking the Citizenship Office at the Prefettura (I imagine that's "they", right?) if a "traduzione giurata" would do just fine.

Naples is literally teeming with translation agencies which provide this kind of service (they take your document, translate it into Italian, attach the translation to it, put all the necessary revenue stamps on it and get the thing done at the court house), but you have to find out which ones are reliable.

Good luck! (in bocca al lupo...)