This chapter considers the demobilisation of the emigrant soldiers in the immediate post-war period, which was a significant and high-profile political issue. Over two-thirds of them chose to depart from Italy as soon as they were able, revealing just how weak the veterans’ ties were to the nation for which they had just spent three years fighting. Significant bureaucratic and logistical hurdles existed, including a lack of steamships to transport the transatlantic returnees. Thousands of emigrant veterans descended on Genoa and Naples, causing severe overcrowding and public disorder. As protests mounted in spring 1919, politicians began calling on the government to recognise the exceptional nature of the emigrants’ service. Some special measures were thus put in place to afford them superior treatment upon discharge. A certificate was awarded to those who had travelled from the Americas, distinguishing between the emigrant returnees by country of departure for the first time. However, as this chapter demonstrates, any post-war recognition was too little, too late. The emigrants’ experience of and treatment during and after the war definitively weakened whatever earlier feelings of attachment they may have had to the nation.