Italian citizenship

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Passport of the Republic of Italy from 2006

The Italian citizenship ( Italian cittadinanza italiana ) is the legal affiliation of a natural person for the Italian Republic , which in the Constitution is regulated and in the Citizenship Act. The basis of the Italian nationality law was the Italian Nationality Act of June 13, 1912. This was changed in many aspects by the law of February 5, 1992.

Acquisition

The determining principle is the principle of descent : If the mother or father is Italian, the child also acquires citizenship at birth. While the old law required children with dual citizenship to choose one of the nationalities when they reached the age of majority, the new law now allows these persons to retain multiple citizenship permanently. Subsequent acquisition is possible in the case of adoption (immediately for minors, after five years of residence in Italy for adults) and marriage. Here is (to marriages to prevent) prerequisite for naturalization that the spouse for half a year has his legal residence in Italy and is not delinquent. The acquisition of citizenship through naturalization is tied to a four-year legal residence for EU citizens or a ten-year legal residence for non-EU citizens. There is no automatic naturalization, but the naturalization requires the application. In addition, the Italian Council of State can also grant citizenship at the request of the Interior Minister if these requirements are not met. Minors receive citizenship if they have lived legally in Italy for at least two years on their 18th birthday and apply for citizenship. Multiple citizenship has been accepted for naturalization since 1992.

The process of acquiring citizenship for people of Italian descent has also been greatly simplified since then. The so-called oriundi are estimated at around 60 million worldwide. Between 1998 and 2007, around 800,000 people of Italian origin worldwide applied for an Italian passport, most of them from Latin America.

All persons who lose the Vatican citizenship without having another one will receive the Italian citizenship.

loss

According to Article 12, citizenship is lost if the Italian government has been asked to do so by accepting or performing military service in a public body or public office in a foreign country and who fails to comply with the Italian government's request to leave this service within the deadline or Anyone who, in the event of a war with a foreign state, accepts or does not give up a public office or a public office of this state or does military service for this state or voluntarily accepts its citizenship. According to Article 11, those who acquire foreign citizenship can renounce Italian citizenship if they reside abroad or are relocating there.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nina Isabel Goes: Mehrstaatigkeit in Deutschland, 1997, ISBN 3-7890-4724-4 , pages 108–119
  2. ↑ Giovanna Zincone: The case of Italy In: Giovanna Zincone, Rinus Penninx, Maren Borkert (Ed.): Migration Policymaking in Europe. The Dynamics of Actors and Contexts in Past and Present. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2012, pp. 247–290, here: p. 257.