Immigration Law

Italian citizenship applications are being submitted with escalating frequency, but the process of receiving citizenship has evolved in recent years and, in some ways, become more complicated. A drastic drop in the percentage of applications accepted has resulted, contrasting with the increase in re...

For British citizens residing in Italy, measures have been designed to guarantee them a peaceful stay post-Brexit. Italy was the first country in the European Union to provide guarantees to British citizens in post-Brexit europe, even in the case of “no deal”. To do this, the Italian gov...

With the recent December vote reaffirming the United Kingdom’s intention to leave the EU, the decision made on June 23, 2016 in the Brexit referendum is materializing day by day. The landslide vote won by Boris Johnson’s conservative party utilized a program clearly projected towards an Amer...

The amendment to the Budget law providing for an amnesty for the regularization of foreigners who are already working in Italy, although without the proper documents to do so, has been admitted and is ready to be voted on. While public opinion is strongly divided between welcoming and refusal of imm...

The United Kingdom is organizing itself to allow European citizens, and those who, like them, previously had freedom of movement rights, to remain in the country without fear of discrimination. The Settlement Scheme promises ease and swiftness. The Settlement Scheme is a program through which citize...

The Italian financial maneuver for 2019 provides incentives for foreigners who choose to move to the southern regions. Why should a foreign pensioner decide to move to a small town in southern Italy, perhaps with less than twenty thousand inhabitants, and perhaps with an unknown name? From the fanta...

Recently enacted Law 132/2018 has lowered tolerance in regards to those travelling with foreign license plates. Law 132/2018 (conversion of the Security Decree containing urgent provisions on international protection, immigration and public security) reviews the situation of those travelling in Ital...

The time is being lengthened to obtain Italian citizenship by judicial means, and how to carry on if citizenship efforts are already underway. Italian citizenship is obtained through descent or can be acquired in the presence of specific circumstances: be born or have been adopted in Italy; being de...

A guide to aid in the navigation of intra-corporate transfers after the implementation of the Legislative Decree no. 253/2016, which has changed entry and stay conditions for employees from non-EU countries which are employed by intra-EU transfer companies. This guide addresses how intra-corporate t...

Those in Europe live in uncertainty as to what the effects of Brexit will be on both Europeans permanently residing in the United Kingdom, and for UK nationals permanently residing in the EU. There was once a united Europe, but as one of its most influential and powerful members gives up its member...