I now have finally gained my Italian citizenship and received my passport, in Italy what will this entitle me?

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Maria Fontaneda

Now you are Italian so you have all the rights an Italian person has. You can vote in the elections, you can work in all the countries of the Europeen Union and have free medical assistance in every country of the EU, you can travel to Europe without a visa.... You should ask in the Italian consulate in your country. They will provide you all the information.

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I'm sorry to contradict you Genius Cook, but we do have free medical assistance in Italy. It doens't cover everything and in some regions you have to pay a small amount of money for a specialistic visit, but there are lot of free services. And you can always go to another UE country to get medical services for free.

Education is free from 3 to 18 years-old and you have to pay for University or private education.

Free college education at a public university.
Also free healthcare
You can work and live in italy now, or anywhere in the european union for that matter

Nice, I'm workin on my paperwork now. how long did it take you?

giovannivincenzocurcio

well ur Italian now
you can vote i guess and have medicare

midknight_6

You get to go through the shortest line in customs at any airport in Europe and snicker at all the tourists still waiting to show their documents.

j-fet

no healthcare is free inly virtually. If you will have to make an exam like blood test you will have to wait for a long time, pay a fee and then you will find a better solution to dio this test privately, such as if you were in US without any insurance.
Healthcare free in Italy? try to need a dentist.
now you are italian you will be forced to pay taxes on virtual income and you will discovered that taxes you paid are woth of nothing

Genius Cook

There is nothing free - nothing at all is free in Italy. Not the health care not the universities. You get taxed to death for these services.
with this out of the way i can tell you that you can now vote in Italy.... but to tell you the truth I don't know how much of a privilege that is seeing the crap that there is (always) running for (re) election.
The best thing abt having the passport is being able to move freely and work anywhere within the Euro-trade zone. This is the real entitlement - Movement within the "United States of Europe".

I know for a fact that Medical Assistance isn’t free in Italy. Besides the near 40% tax taken out of your stipend (if you work for a company and don’t free lance) you also have to pay a “ticket” which can run as much as 35Euros... True, you can get medical service in other EU countries. All the same, with the high taxes paid ALL medical services should be free. Dental for example. Try and schedule a dental exam for yourself. It takes 6 months to see a specialist. At that point you just go to a private dentist and pay (through the nose) The same for eye care – get yourself an appointment with an optometrist and you’ll be seen 3 to 6 months down the road.
School – “tasse d’iscrizione” (enrolment tax) & “contributo all’istituto” (contribution to the institution – aka school). This can sum up to near 150.00 euros + the terribly high costs for books! To top things off publishers (with consent of the teachers and or the government) change school texts every school year leaving you to have to dish out 300 to 500euros in text books!

Take it from me – I’ve been in and out of Italy, have worked in Italy, for nearly 30 years. There ain’t nothing free in Italy.

Popinjay - 300 euros a month is not free. that's lots of money!

Popi?jay

I wholly agree with Maria.

Health care is free, totally paid by everyone thorugh part of taxes. There's a little amount of money you have to pay in hospital for some exams or specialistic visit - it's called 'ticket'. Nothing much, almost everyone can afford it (normally it's from about €15 to €100). If you do have some cronic disease visits and medicines are for free (or you pay 2€ every 3 packets, sort of thing).

Education is free, well kindergarten is not that much, here in Veneto a 2 yrs old kid who goes to school has a fee of about €300 per month. The Government helps families with many kids or low incomes.
Higher grades schools have a once-a-year tax that's normally paid by the families to sustain the school' costs (that would be about €50).
University is sort of free too - you do have to pay much more taxes than before, but nothing like private American or English Uni/Colleges (that goes up even to 20,000 pounds per year and such for US dollars, for what I know).

You can live in Italy and work in Italy. You can go everywhere in EU without your passport - just need your ID.

You can vote (yeah again!) for the Government! Next elections are on the 13th and 14th of April. Yahoo (...) !

Well you gotta pay taxes too if you permanently live in Italy (that's not so good though).

You have privileges and disadvantages =)

Hope I haven't got anything wrong...
Welcome and ciao! =D

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