Recent News On Italian Citizenship Applications

With the approval of Law Decree No. 130/2020, which en-tered into force on last October 22, 2020, the Italian Go-vernment has partially amended the provisions that had been introduced at the end of 2018 with Law Decree No. 113/2018 (the so called "Decreto Salvini" on safety and im-migration).

These amendments resulted in the reduction of the proces-sing time of Italian citizenship by marriage and by residency applications, which have been reduced from 48 months to 36 months.

The new timing applies to applications that are submitted on or after October 22, 2020, therefore to any application submitted before such a date the "old" 48-month term con-tinues to apply.

This change is a step forward in the direction of simplifying and streamlining Italian citizenship applications, even if it does not bring back the initial timing provided by law befo-re the "Decreto Salvini", according to which Italian authori-ties had up to "only" 24 months to complete the process.