naturalization

Bologna mayor Matteo Lepore on the balcony of Palazzo D'Accursio in Bologna | Photo: ANSA/Max Cavallari
Foreigners living in Germany could get a German passport within five years if new proposals are passed into law | Photo: Winfried Rothermel/picture alliance
From file: The scheme came after months of public lobbying and activism | Photo: Cate McCuryy/PA Wire/picture alliance
Legal immigrants have to usually spend eight years in Germany before qualifying for citizenship | Photo: B. Fishman / picture-alliance / dpa
Refugees after arriving in Denmark from Germany in September 2015 | Photo: EPA/Jens Noergaard Larsen
The vote in the Senate did not come without its controversies | Photo: ANSA/Fabio Frustaci
People at a demonstration in Rome, Italy, in November 2017, demanding that anyone born in Italy should be able to get the Italian citizenship | Photo: ANSA/Giuseppe Lami
Kimia Alizadeh hopes to compete in the Olympic Games again - but it is uncertain how soon that dream may come true | Photo: picture-alliance/AP Photo/M. Meissner
Pesaro mayor Matteo Ricci conducted a ceremony for 150 locals who had become Italian citizens in 2019 | Photo: Municipality of Pesaro
IOM's regional office for the Middle East and North Africa and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) launched the 2019 edition of the Situation Report on International Migration in the Arab Region on December 4, 2019 in Cairo | Credit: ESCWA
Each European nation has its own set of laws and rules one must follow before becoming a citizen | Credit: picture-alliance/dpa/ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU
Earning citizenship makes working and living in Europe much easier | Credit: Picture alliance/dpa/B. Fishman