Italian citizenship

Italian Citizenship

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If you have the possibility of obtaining Italian citizenship, you will be interested in knowing the facts before you apply for it. The Italian State allows citizenship to both European and non-EU foreigners according to precise regulations and laws that have been set up both in Europe and Italy. Rome-Explorer.com has put together the following article to suggest to you how you can obtain Italian citizenship, the documents that are required, the cases of double citizenship where they apply, and obtaing Italian citizenship through marriage to an Italian citizen. We recommend that you do your research carefully.

Italian Citizenship: What Exactly Is It?
Unlike other countries, if a child is born in Italy, he or she is not automatically an Italian citizen. In fact, the Italian State recognizes citizenship on the basis of the blood line. In general a child is Italian when his or her parents, an din some cases even the grandparents, have Italian citizenship with the exception of children of unknown parents or stateless people. Italian citizenship will give you the possibility to vote in elections and pass on Italian citizenship to your children.

Italian Citizenship: How to obtain It
Foreigners that can achieve the Italian citizenship status are non-EU foreign citizens who have lived in Italy legally for at least 10 years or more, EU citizens have to live in Italy for 4 years, foreign adults adopted by an Italian citizen and living in Italy for 5 years; foreign citizens with at least an Italian parent by birth or who were born in the Italian Repubblic; in both cases it is required that they have been living in Italy for at least 3 years, or foreigners who have served the Italian State for at least 5 years.

Italian Citizenship: The Documents You Will Need
Your request for Italian citizenship has to be submitted to the prefecture of the area in which you are a resident. You have to show the correct filled in form, your birth certificate, and the penal certificate where applicable in Italian, in addition to other specific papers that may be required.

Italian Citizenship: Citizenship by Marriage
Foreigners can become Italian citizens through marriage as well. They have to be married for at least six months, and have taken up residency in an Italian town for at least six months before marrying. The applicant has to have a stay permit or ''permesso di soggiorno'' visa, and be registered at the registry office. To achieve citizenship there can't have been the dissolution of the marriage, legal separation, and the civil marriage can't have been declared not valid.

Italian Citizenship: Double Citizenship
The Italian law allows to keep Italian citizenship when you achieve another foreign citizenship. Who requires, achieves or regains a foreign citizenship can keep the Italian one, children whose parents have a different citizenship can achieve double citizenship. There are some exceptions regarding Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Norway: If you want to be naturalized in these countries, you lose the Italian citizenship.

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