Italian citizenship can be obtained by continuous residence or by descent or link with an Italian citizen.

The application is submitted through the Citizen Services Portal with access via SPID

It is necessary to have a few years of continuous residence depending on the reason (for example 10 years due to residence, 2 years due to marriage).

It is also necessary to present a birth certificate and a criminal certificate for the countries in which one has resided, these documents must be legalized and translated.

In applications for marriage with an Italian citizen it is necessary to submit the registration of this marriage act in Italy in those for residence you must also have a minimum income calculated at 8263.31 € per year for the last three years if you do not have dependants, 11362,05€ with one dependent person and 516€ for every other dependent person.

The citizenship application foresees two or three years before a response that will take place through the portal. But it can also take longer.

A reminder can be submitted after two years.