Destinations End of stamps: European Union digitizes borders and ends symbolic era The so-called EES begins to come into effect this Sunday (12). RedactionOctober 12th, 2025
Citizenship Italians will be able to travel outside the EU without a passport An Italian identity card can replace a passport in several destinations outside the European Union. RedactionApril 9th 2025
Citizenship Italian Consulate in SP implements experimental “Click Day” system The Italian Consulate in São Paulo adopts the "Click Day" system for passport appointments on an experimental basis RedactionJanuary 8, 2025
Citizenship Portugal adopts artificial intelligence to speed up citizenship applications New digital platform promises to increase service capacity by 50% and reduce fraud in naturalization processes. RedactionOctober 1th, 2024
Varieties Italy has the 2nd most powerful passport in the world Brazilian document occupies 17th place in ranking. Redaction31 July 2024
Citizenship Italian renounces citizenship and obtains new passport From Italy to Spain: Riccardo Consoli's journey in search of a more welcoming future. RedactionMarch 23th, 2024
Citizenship The most powerful passports in the world in 2022 Henley & Partners ranking shows a change in the list that was dominated by European nations RedactionSeptember 22th, 2022
Citizenship The most powerful passports in the world in 2022; Italian is 3rd Italian passport is the third most powerful in the world; Brazil drops to 20th place RedactionJanuary 13, 2022
Daily EU health pass does not change Italy's veto on travelers from Brazil Prohibition makes an exception for residents of the European country. There is no plan to relax standards Redaction4 July 2021
Daily Italy extends restriction for travelers from Brazil Italy extends restrictive measures for travelers from Brazil due to Covid. Redaction14 May 2021
Daily European covid passport should exclude vaccines not approved in the EU The future of tourism will depend on the recognition of China and Russia's vaccines as more popular destinations. RedactionApril 27th 2021
Daily “Covid free” passport will be launched on June 1st The Green Pass will be launched in Europe from June 1st, ahead of schedule. RedactionApril 16th 2021
Citizenship The most powerful passports in the world in 2021 Italy continues to be the country with the 4th most powerful passport in the world, according to the Henley Passport Index ranking. RedactionApril 15th 2021
Destinations EU launches green Covid passport to save summer Health certificate indicates whether the bearer has been vaccinated, has recovered from the disease, or has had a negative test result. It will be "in electronic format... RedactionMarch 17th, 2021
Destinations The most powerful “passport” in the world in 2021? Vaccination Vaccination against Covid-19 will be the most powerful passport in the world in 2021. RedactionJanuary 16, 2021
Citizenship Italian Consulate in Vitória opens The goal is to serve 20 people per day. Official opening of the office will be on December 7th RedactionNovember 17th, 2020
Citizenship Why the Italian passport is wine. Understand colors Get to know all the existing colors and understand the political, economic and social meanings of each one. RedactionOctober 9th, 2020
Citizenship Dual citizenship is new American status symbol, says NYT According to an American newspaper, the pandemic has increased the demand for dual citizenship RedactionAugust 24th, 2020
Citizenship Minister wants to reduce the deadline for Italian citizenship processes Lamorgese intends to return to the previous standard, reducing the practice's waiting period to 24 months RedactionAugust 9th, 2020
Citizenship Brazilians with Italian citizenship can travel to Italy Despite the ban, anyone from the European country is accepted RedactionAugust 2th, 2020
Citizenship Email for Italian citizenship queue is down, users complain “Box full”: applicants are unable to send an email to join the queue for Italian citizenship at the Consulate in São Paulo. RedactionJune 10th, 2020
Citizenship Decree: Italy extends passport and identity card expiration date Covid-19 emergency affects deadlines for administrative services in Italy and consulates RedactionApril 4th 2020
Citizenship Italian consulate in SP has already issued more than 21 thousand passports in 2019 According to the consulate, the result was possible thanks to changes in the scheduling system RedactionOctober 19th, 2019
Citizenship Italian Parliament reopens discussion on citizenship law In principle, the proposal does not change the rules for recognizing citizenship by blood right RedactionSeptember 30th, 2019
Citizenship European citizenship for Brazilians grows 800% in 15 years Periods of increase in the acquisition of European citizenships by Brazilians correlate with moments of crisis in Brazil Redaction26 July 2019
Citizenship Salvini signs decree to issue Italian identity abroad From now on, consulates are authorized to issue the CIE Redaction26 July 2019
Citizenship Italy investigates fraud in Brazilian citizenship applications Brazil accounted for 85% of requests for recognition of citizenship by blood right in 2017 Redaction19 July 2019
Citizenship Senate committee suggests tests to apply for Italian citizenship According to Petrocelli, the proposal is in the base text that should be presented in the Senate Redaction3 July 2019
Citizenship Italy arrests 6 people for illegal Italian citizenship scheme Illegal Italian citizenship scheme took place within the Ministry of the Interior Redaction20 May 2019
Citizenship New scheduling system for Italian citizenship processes being tested New scheduling system is similar to that adopted by the São Paulo consulate Redaction18 May 2019
Citizenship Italian passport: new system to 'exterminate the scheduling mafia' Ministry creates new platform to make it difficult to sell places for passport scheduling RedactionApril 21th 2019
Citizenship Embassy increases vacancies to renew Italian passport by 50% This is the second expansion carried out by the diplomatic representation since last year RedactionApril 20th 2019