The Italian Government will carry out greater controls in embassies and consulates in Latin America due to the high demand for appointments.
Italy reported that it will carry out more controls for citizenship applications from South American countries. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that the measure will mainly affect Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Venezuela. The modification alerted those seeking to emigrate because the change added to the complications of receiving a turn for the citizenship process.
Many Argentines are looking for a better economic passage abroad, with Europe being the continent most chosen by them. Italy is usually a popular destination to emigrate because it is usually the nation of the ancestors of young emigrants. This condition makes it easier to obtain the necessary documentation to enter and settle legally in the European country.
Italy’s new measure for Latin Americans seeking citizenship
The EFE Agency reported that began to carry out new controls on embassies and consulates in Latin America. These measures were generated by the great demand for appointments to obtain Italian citizenship. The large number is due to the high volume of Italian descendants who emigrated to this region in the past.
The Italian Government indicated that it seeks to combat and prevent illicit phenomena by supervising the correct functioning of consular offices. The services provided will be supervised to avoid irregularities in the citizenship procedures. The measure seeks to stop the sale of shifts and inconsistencies in documentation, but it does not seek to stop the nationalization of Argentines.
What the Italian Embassy in Argentina said about the shifts
The Italian Embassy in Buenos Aires and the network of consular offices published a statement in response to the viralization on social networks, where users discussed possible cancellations of appointments.
The group of institutions indicated that: “The cases of cancellation of shifts are not random, as some communications maintain. On the contrary, it is precisely about safeguarding the right of individual users to freely access appointment bookings.”
The cancellations reached the reservations made by “managers”those who seek to benefit through the acquisition of shifts and who violate the personal nature required by the regulations for reservations.
Italian citizenship: what documents do I need
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To access citizenship, you must present the following original documentation, legalized and translated into Italian.
- Application for recognition and form completed by the applicant and signed on the day of the shift before the consular official.
- Birth certificate of the last Italian ancestor.
- Marital status records or certificates.
- Argentine “non-citizen” certificate issued by the National Electoral Chamber.
- Marital status records of all those who continue in the line of succession until reaching the applicant for nationality.
- Copy of ID.
- Records of the applicant’s marital status.
- Proof of residence within the region of the corresponding Consulate.
Source: Ambito
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