Quote: (05-03-2016 03:30 PM)Roger Wrote:
You can get easily an italian passport after 5-7 years of legal staying in Italy ( unfortunately)
The same can be said of almost anywhere, that isn't odd.
To stay
legally in a country for years is no easy feat. You would need a visa beyond the tourist variety, which means you are employed, studying, own a business etc, and must meet the minimum financial requirements, and must continually qualify to be renewed.
Staying
legally for 5-7 years in a country and then being able to get citizenship is not a shortcut, that is the normal way to get a second passport, and expensive and difficult.
If you had said one could get an Italian passport by simply being in Italy, legally
or illegally, then yes that would be an "easy" way and would be bad policy.
As it stands however, that is not the case.