BOLOGNA INSIDE Second Edition - IWF Bologna
BOLOGNA INSIDE Second Edition - IWF Bologna
BOLOGNA INSIDE Second Edition - IWF Bologna
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Documents which have been notarized by a notary public and then certified with a<br />
conformant apostille are then accepted for legal use in all the nations that have signed<br />
the Hague Convention.<br />
Any documents and apostilles written in a foreign language will have to be translated<br />
into Italian by an authorized translator, registered in the albo (guild). A list of authorized<br />
translators is available at the front desk of the Tribunale (City Courthouse) on<br />
Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 6. <strong>IWF</strong> members have recommended the following translator:<br />
Lucia Gaudenzi<br />
Tel. 051.6153453<br />
Cell. 347.3221840<br />
E-mail: lu_gaude@hotmail.com<br />
HELPFUL RESOURCES<br />
For help with long-term paperwork, visit the city’s URP in Piazza Maggiore, see Chapter 1:<br />
Plugging In. The URP website contains useful information in Italian on citizenship,<br />
marriage and other long-term issues.<br />
The City of Turin has an excellent English-language version of its site. While some of the<br />
information is city specific, many of the procedures for preparing for the long term are<br />
similar to <strong>Bologna</strong>: www.comune.torino.it/en.<br />
CITIZENSHIP<br />
If you qualify, there are numerous benefits to acquiring Italian citizenship. For non-EU<br />
citizens, Italian citizenship will allow you to travel freely within the EU and to work in<br />
any of the member states. While EU citizens already enjoy the above privileges, becoming<br />
an Italian citizen will enable you to vote in the democracy in which you live and most<br />
importantly, make you an equal under Italian law.<br />
There are four ways of automatically receiving Italian citizenship: birth to an Italian<br />
parent; being born in Italian territory; being adopted as a minor by an Italian citizen; or<br />
judicial recognition of paternity or maternity of an Italian citizen. There are also ways of<br />
requesting Italian citizenship. These include demonstration of bloodline or descent (if<br />
certain conditions are met), marriage to an Italian citizen and naturalization. Note that in<br />
the cases of marriage and naturalization, the decision to award citizenship is at the total<br />
discretion of the authorities.<br />
CITIZENSHIP BY MARRIAGE<br />
You can apply for citizenship by marriage after having resided legally in Italy for six<br />
months after the date of the official Italian registration of your marriage. You will have<br />
to demonstrate that you have never been convicted of certain crimes. If you marry an<br />
Italian citizen but do not establish residency in Italy, you must instead wait three years<br />
from the date of your marriage to qualify. When you apply, you will complete a modulo<br />
(form), downloadable online from the Prefettura (Prefect). You will also need to submit<br />
the following documents:
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