Immigration Law

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...

The British exit from the European Union marks a shift in European politics – one of the most influential and powerful partners giving up its membership. Those in Europe live in uncertainty as to what the efects of Brexit will be on both Europeans residing in the United Kingdom, and on UK nati...

The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, is at the centre of the dialogue between the “soft” and “hard” Brexit factions, and the European Union, which wants answers on its future relations with Britain. The UK’s divorce from the EU is getting messier and messier every d...

Italy could not do without both its home-grown and foreign-born talent. To get accomplished people involved, it is looking to become “low tax”. On the 22 March 2018, the Italian Agency of Revenue published a guide (Fiscal incentives for attracting human capital) detailing which tax break...

Family reunification as the recognition of the right to family unity for foreign nationals. Family reunification represents one of the possible ways to legally enter and reside in Italy and is regulated by artt. 28 – 29 – 29bis and 30 of the TUI (Testo Unico sull’Immigrazione), which is the re...

After the success of Expo, Milan is ready to accept London’s orphans and to become the future headquarters of the EMA, The European Agency for Medicines. Milan’s candiacy for the headquarters of the EMA is official, the European Medicine Agency. The headquarters will inevitably move from...

Obtaining citizenship via the female successor line Can a law established before the constitution be unconstituional? In 1912, when legislation on citizenship was drafted in Italy regarding the tranfering of citizenship from parents to children, it maintained a distinction between the transfering of...