Lara Olivetti
Licensed Italian Lawyer with experience in citizenship and migration law, dedicated to empowering individuals and families to understand, claim, and protect their Italian and European citizenship with confidence.
My mission is to bring clarity where the law creates confusion.
My work has been guided by a simple conviction: citizenship is not a privilege — it is a right that must be accessible, understandable, and protected.
Across my career in public institutions, international organisations, and private legal practice, I have seen how migration and citizenship laws shape people’s lives in profound ways. Too often, the rules are opaque, intimidating, or applied inconsistently. Families are left without guidance. Rights are lost because information arrives too late.
Smart Dual Citizenship was born to change this. Today, through digital legal-guidance products, educational articles, and timely updates, I help individuals and families worldwide understand, claim, and safeguard their Italian and European citizenship with confidence and autonomy.
My mission is to bring clarity where the law creates confusion — and to ensure that people can move, live, and plan their futures with freedom and dignity.
Over 25 Years of Experience
My professional path has spanned Italy, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, and international institutions.
During this time, I have:
- guided over 5,000 families through citizenship and migration processes,
- developed strategies used in landmark cases,
- trained public servants and civil-status officers,
- and navigated the evolution of Italian and European citizenship law from both institutional and practical perspectives.
These experiences taught me that while courts can correct injustices, prevention and clear guidance empower people far more effectively.
This is why I now devote my work to creating accessible tools that allow anyone — no matter where they live — to understand and exercise their rights without fear or confusion.
From Public Service
to Legal Practice
My career began inside public administration, working in the Population Registrar and Immigration Services of the Autonomous Province of Trento. Every day, I collaborated with municipalities, judges, immigration police, trade unions, social workers, and grassroots organisations to resolve real problems for real families.
After passing the Italian Bar exam, I expanded my work to include organisations such as Save the Children, the European Commission, the Red Cross, LGBTQI+ networks, and associations supporting Italians abroad.
These experiences shaped my understanding of citizenship as a human rights matter, not merely an administrative procedure.
I learned that every case requires not only legal precision, but also empathy, patience, and a deep respect for each person’s story.
My Academic Formation
I studied law in Milan and Maastricht during a period in which the European Union was transforming — moving from economic integration toward a broader legal and social framework. During these years, I focused on:
- EU equal treatment law;
- gender justice and labour rights;
- protections for migrant women;
- the fight against discrimination, violence, and exploitation.
I graduated from the University of Trento with a thesis on the legal protection of migrant women — a topic that has continued to influence my work ever since. My academic path gave me the tools to analyse the law critically and to understand how legal systems affect people’s lives beyond the courtroom.
My Origin
I grew up in a small town on Lake Garda, in northern Italy.
My father built houses; my grandfather grew grapes; my mother and the women in my family held everything together — often without the freedom to care for themselves in the same way they cared for others.
Their strength, combined with the unspoken memories of wars that shaped our family, taught me to value life, to work hard, and to reject injustice wherever I saw it. It also taught me that independence of thought and means — especially for women — is not given; it is built.
Those early lessons nurtured my curiosity about inequality and my determination to study the law, travel, and become an international lawyer.
My work today is still rooted in those first intuitions: that every person deserves dignity, fairness, and the freedom to shape their own future.
OUR VALUES
TRUSTWORTHY
We don’t just know the law, we respect your story.
You can trust us to be clear, honest, and realistic about your path.
No fake promises. No shortcuts. Just strategic, legal support that delivers.
OUR VALUES
INNOVATION
Bureaucracy is old-school, we’re not. We use smart tools, global collaboration and digital solutions to simplify what others complicate.
Innovation for us means making citizenship more accessible, not more expensive.
OUR VALUES
HUMAN
We’re not just a team of lawyers, we’re migrants too. We’ve felt the fear, the frustration, the delays.
That’s why we treat every case with care, empathy and full respect for your roots, identity and journey.
