The citizenship reform bill approved by the Italian Parliament at the end of 2015 has finally been put on the agenda for approval in the Senate. The law has faced great opposition by center-right parties such as Lega Nord, which tried to slow its progress by proposing over 8,000 amendments. The reform is extremely important because of its content: it proposes to base citizenship not on ius sanguinis, as it has been so far, but on ius soli. This would be a major change for over one million people born, raised and educated in Italy, but considered foreigners because their parents are.