Declaration of desire to become a citizen<\/strong><\/p>\n If the foreigner is of Italian descent (up to the 2nd degree) he\/she can obtain citizenship in any of the following cases:<\/p>\n – by residing legally in Italy for at least two years after reaching legal age.<\/p>\n If the foreigner was born in Italian territory he\/she can obtain citizenship by residing legally and uninterruptedly in Italy from birth up to legal age.<\/p>\n Marriage to an Italian citizen<\/strong><\/p>\n The requirements include:<\/p>\n absence of criminal record;<\/p>\n absence of impediments associated with national security.<\/p>\n Applications for citizenship are to be addressed to the Ministry of the Interior and presented to the Prefecture in the Province of residence, if residing in Italy, or the diplomatic-consular authorities if residing abroad.<\/p>\n Naturalisation<\/strong><\/p>\n requirements include:<\/p>\n sufficient income;<\/p>\n absence of criminal record;<\/p>\n renunciation of original citizenship (where foreseen).<\/p>\n <\/dir>the number of years can be reduced to:<\/p>\n 4 years of legal residence for citizens of European Community Member States;<\/p>\n 5 years of legal residence for displaced persons or refugees, as well as for legal-age foreigners adopted by Italian citizens;<\/p>\n 7 years of legal residence as the child of an Italian parent;<\/p>\n no period of residence is required for foreigners who have served the State for a period of at least 5 years, even abroad.<\/p>\n Application for naturalisation must be addressed to the President of the Republic (Presidente della Repubblica) and presented to the Prefecture in the Province of residence.<\/p>\n <\/dir><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Applying for citizenship Declaration of desire to become a citizen If the foreigner is of Italian descent (up to the 2nd degree) he\/she can obtain citizenship in any of the following cases: – by serving in the Italian armed forces;– by becoming a subordinate employee of the Italian State, even abroad; – by residing legally […]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":236,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274\/revisions\/1280"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshochiminh.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}