{"id":17439,"date":"2020-12-14T15:41:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuranceitaly.it\/?p=17439"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:41:39","slug":"ius-sanguinis-ius-soli-e-ius-culturae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuranceitaly.it\/zh-hans\/news\/ius-sanguinis-ius-soli-e-ius-culturae\/","title":{"rendered":"IUS SANGUINIS, IUS SOLI E IUS CULTURAE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Obtaining the citizenship<\/a><\/strong> of a country does not only mean receiving a piece of paper, documents and being able to vote for one’s representatives in elections, which is also a very important right, above all it means belonging to a community whose values, culture, the history, the behavior are shared … to sum up, everything! Every citizen of a nation belongs to a large family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your family, your parents have not always lived in Italy and are not Italian, becoming Italian becomes a bit complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, in Italy, the IUS SANGUINIS<\/em> is in effect. What does it mean? In other words, it means that you can take Italian citizenship if one of your parents can pass it on to you being Italian himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the law in effect, the children of foreign parents, therefore who do not possess Italian citizenship<\/a><\/strong>, can become citizens only at the age of 18, provided they wish it and have always had residence in Italy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand there is the IUS SOLI<\/em>, two Latin words that mean “law of the soil”. With the Ius Soli, in fact, anyone born “on the soil” of a certain nation automatically becomes a citizen. Several times, this law has also been proposed in Parliament but unfortunately it has never been approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a discussion over the “tempered” version of this law which dictates that anyone born in Italy from foreign parents, and at least one of them is in possession of a long-term residence permit<\/a><\/strong> and has resided in Italy legally and continuously for at least five years, automatically becomes an Italian citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it happens that this law is applied in Italy in particular cases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n