{"id":17435,"date":"2023-08-28T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/?p=17435"},"modified":"2023-07-29T17:41:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T21:41:49","slug":"card-carrying-italians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/card-carrying-italians\/","title":{"rendered":"Card-Carrying Italians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a three-year-long process (somewhat quick comparatively), but the journey for recognition of Italian citizenship was as complete as it was going to be &#8211; passports were in hand! What began as a discovery, turned into 10 months of research and documentation gathering before an appointment at the Italian Embassy in April 2021 (see last pic). After two years of waiting, three of us were recognized as Italian citizens (oddly finding out while in Jamaica), and just a couple months later, passports were in hand!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-07-13-10.46.51-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"17441\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-07-13-10.46.51-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17441\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Racing to our appointment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-07-13-10.49.41.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"17437\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-07-13-10.49.41.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17437\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Biding our time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-07-13-11.56.46-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"17439\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-07-13-11.56.46-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17439\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Passports in hand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-07-13-12.00.55.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"17438\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-07-13-12.00.55.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17438\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Double trouble<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-07-13-17.35.06-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"17436\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-07-13-17.35.06-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17436\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">All official<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2021-04-28-13.47.35-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2250\" height=\"3000\" data-id=\"17440\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2021-04-28-13.47.35-2250x3000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2021-04-28-13.47.35-2250x3000.jpg 2250w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2021-04-28-13.47.35-900x1200.jpg 900w, http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2021-04-28-13.47.35-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2250px) 100vw, 2250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flashback to 2021 when the clock started<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a three-year-long process (somewhat quick comparatively), but the journey for recognition of Italian citizenship was as complete as it was going to be &#8211; passports were in hand! What began as a discovery, turned into 10 months of research and documentation gathering before an appointment at the Italian Embassy in April 2021 (see&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/card-carrying-italians\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-17435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-picture","tag-italia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17444,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions\/17444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}