Police certs and citizenship confusion

[Linos 69]

This is a random one but hoping someone has some knowledge on this:

 

I am preparing for my CR1 interview next week and while double checking the documents I need to prep I noticed this "POLICE CERTIFICATES:  Each applicant aged 16 years or over is required to submit a police certificate from all other countries where the applicant has resided for at least six months and any country they are a           citizen of. 

My father is Italian and I have had italian passports as a child (last one expired around 10-15 years ago) I am not sure what my status is (if I am an italian citizen/national by blood). I have never lived in Italy...Do I need to obtain an italian police certificate?

[Boiler 45,467]

Have you renounced your Italian Citizenship?

[Linos 69]

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

Have you renounced your Italian Citizenship?

I have never formally renounced (completely clueless about how these things work). I haven’t renewed my Italian passport since my last one expired and never lived in Italy, I am unsure what my status actually is but I will request police certs from Italy just in case it comes up at the interview. 

[Linos 69]

Updating the thread to help others who might be in a similar situation as I attended my interview today:

 

I was approved 🎉💕 but need to send my Italian police certificates to the embassy along with my passport. This didn’t come up at the NVC stage.

 

TLDR dual citizens need police certs from both countries even if you never lived there