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Italian Citizenship The waiting time to get Italian citizenship is rather long. In addition to the period required to meet the legal conditions , foreign citizens are expected to wait for further 2 / 3 years  before having their application to become Italian citizens accepted (4 years with Salvini Law). However, the facts amply demonstrate that two years are not enough and deadlines are hardly ever respected. Foreign citizens may have to wait up to five or six years before receiving a “yes”. The reason for these long bureaucratic waits is the rising demand from foreigners to get  Italian citizenship . On the other hand, there is an inadequate number of people in charge of processing the requests, implemented for this reason a few months ago. Although new laws were made to speed up the process, the waiting time is still extremely long. So here are two tips to help you reduce it or, at least, not exceed the limit of 2 - 3 years required by law. How to speed

Becoming Italian citizens after getting married is possible , however, this can only be done if one is to respect and follow the rules provided by the Act 91/1992 .  According to the act 91 of 1992 , which is currently in function, Italian citizenship can be obtained through matrimony. The request must be submitted to the Prefect of the territory where the residence of the applicant currently is. Meanwhile, if the foreigner consort is residing abroad, the submission must be presented to the consular office of the territory in question. In addition to that, the decree granting citizenship will be signed by the Head of Department for Civil Liberties and Immigration. As stated by the act, precisely at the article 5: “ The consort, foreign or stateless, of an Italian citizen may acquire Italian citizenship after having been legally (for a period of two years ) in the territory of the Republic following his marriage. Or, after three years from the date of the marriage if l

Question: What is the minimum income required to submit the application for Italian citizenship? In the case of application for Italian citizenship for residence under Article 9 of Law 91 of February 5, 1992 it is necessary to possess a personal or family income in the last three years amounted to EUR 8.263,31 for the sole applicant. If the citizenship applicant is part of a family unit, so if he is married or has children, then the minimum income for citizens is increased from € 8.263,31 to € 11.362,05. To the new minimum income of € 11,362.05 requested by the applicant with spouse , you will add up more euro 516,46 for each dependent child. They must accompany the application for Italian citizenship tax models CUD, UNICO, 730 relative to the income of the last three years. And possible to take into account the income of the entire family unit to which the applicant belongs Italian citizen when it is clear that there are other resources that form the income. For th

The 2021 Decreto Flussi is underway. The Flows decree 2021 will be published in the Official Journal in a matter of days. Applications can be presented from 9 AM on the tenth (and fifteenth) day from the publication in the Official Gazette. The decree provides access to the labour market for 69,700 non-EU foreign citizens. The numbers will be divided as follows: - 17,000 non-seasonal employees in transporting goods for third parties, construction and tourism/hotel sectors from the following countries : Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Korea (Republic of Korea), Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Philippines, Gambia, Ghana, Japan, Guatemala, India, Kosovo, Mali, Morocco, Mauritius, Moldova, Montenegro, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of North Macedonia, Senegal, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tunisia, Ukraine; - 3,000 non-seasonal subordinate workers in the sectors of freight transport for third parties, construction and hotel tourism from countries w

  2021 flows decree to be issued as soon as possible The Agriculture Commission of the Chamber of Deputies is pushing for the issuing of a new seasonal flows decree for 2021. The extension of the expiry date of residence permits to 31 July 2021 is a positive step, but it is not enough! "The extension to 31 July of residence permits expiring for about 30,000 regular non-EU workers, who arrived with the past 'flow decrees', is an important support for agricultural businesses who complain of a lack of seasonal labour due to the Covid-19. It is now necessary to issue the ' flows decree 2021' as soon as possible and to push for the 'active quarantine' that has worked in other European countries". Foreigners' amnesty: only five hundred foreign farmers registered "It is estimated that the 'amnesty of the invisibles', about which we expressed all our perplexity from the beginning, has allowed the regularisation of just 500 agricul

How to apply from 18th to 19th birthday (Council) A person born in Italy of immigrant parents has a privileged procedure to follow in becoming an Italian citizen. This privilege, however, is only valid for a year, from the moment the person reaches the legal age. According to Italian Law, whoever is born in Italy of immigrant parents doesn’t automatically acquire Italian citizenship. The child maintains the parents’ citizenship until he/she reaches the legal age. Let's see in detail the legal procedure to be followed by one who was born in Italy to immigrant parents and would like to become an Italian citizen. The Italian citizenship is regulated by Law no. 91/92 which states that a foreigner who was born in Italy, and has been residing legally and uninterruptedly in the country from birth up to the legal age, becomes an Italian citizen by making an explicit statement of will to acquire Italian citizenship within a year of reaching the legal age. (Article 4, paragraph 2 of