Go Global

PalmBeachPost.net recently posted an article about dual-citizenship that I thought was interesting.

As more and more US corporations go global, why not have more and more Americans go global? An estimated 40 million Americans are eligible for some form of dual-citizenship. The real question is: are you eligible?

UPDATE: ItalianDocs.com -now Closed

It is with regret that I have closed italiandocs.com as a business for finding people's ancestor's birth, marriage, and death certificates. I have turned the page into a free information portal complete with the method I used for completing orders.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Leave them in the comments!

a dopo!

ItalianDocs.com

As I was compiling my documents from Italy, I used (and raved about) ICGS. ICGS has since been sold and is under new management/ownership, which in the past has had some issues. I believe most of those issues have been settled and that the site is better. One change that I did notice since the new management has taken over is the price has risen $13 to $55 from when I ordered my documents. I believe that is unreasonable, as is $125 for some other services.

This spring I started discussing with members of the Expats in Italy forum about starting a competing service at a reasonable price. Today, I would like to inform you that I am ready to start accepting orders for Vital Records (birth, marriage and death certificates) from Italy at my website, ItalianDocs.com.

I can be contacted at rick@italiandocs.com.

So I'm in Italy...

And waiting for my permesso di soggiorno. The woman at the post office said it could be about a month and that day's almost here. We've seen reports that there is a backlog of anywhere from 200,000 to 500,000 applications, so I have no idea when it'll arrive. Once I get the permesso, I'm going to go to the citizenship office in Genova to give them my citizenship documents to make an attempt at getting citizenship.

I probably won't be updating this site much, buy Emily and I have another site, www.overabottle.net with stories and information about our lives here in Genova and around Italy.

Enjoy!

Apply in Italy; sounds good to me!

For some strange reason, I just discovered this link on Expats in Italy and am hoping it is the key to my Italian Citizenship. What it basically states is that you can apply for citizenship in Italy by presenting all the same documents you would show the local Consulate. The process also *seems* to be a lot faster if it is done in Italy, which is surprising to me.

I have decided to give applying for citizenship in Italy a shot since I'm about ready for a career change, love live in Italy, and wish to become more fluent in Italian. So at the end of February I will move to Italy, go to the Questura and get my permesso di soggiorno, then go to the Comune of whatever city I'm going to live in and present my documents to apply to citizenship, then I will bring a document from the Comune back to the Questura and hopefully get a permesso di soggiorno per attesa di cittadinanza, then I will go back to the Comune and give them my documents to apply for citizenship. In case you weren't counting that's going to be 2 trips to the Questura and 2 trips to the Comune. The permesso di soggiorno per attesa di cittadinanza will allow me to stay in Italy as I apply for citizenship. I believe the permesso will allow me to work a little bit (I hope so at least) and after about 6 months (on average, I believe) I should be a recognized citizen.

I'll post again when I know where I'm going and more details.

A presto!