{"id":23682,"date":"2018-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuovowww.collaudo.istat.it\/non-categorizzato\/non-eu-citizens-presence-new-inflows-and-acquisition-of-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T21:51:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T19:51:37","slug":"non-eu-citizens-presence-new-inflows-and-acquisition-of-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/press-release\/non-eu-citizens-presence-new-inflows-and-acquisition-of-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign residents in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of January 2018, non-EU foreigners holding a residence permit in Italy were 3,714,934. Citizens from Morocco (443,147), Albania (430,340), China (309,110), Ukraine (235,245) and Philippines (161,609) accounted for a significant share.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, new inflows of non-EU foreigners were 262,770 (+16% new permits over the previous year). Permits issued for family purposes were 43.2%, while new permits issued for work only accounted for 4.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Inflows for asylum and other humanitarian reasons (101 thousand people) grew by nearly 30%. The large majority of new permits issued in 2017, involved people from Nigeria, Albania, Morocco, Pakistan and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, after more than ten years of growth, acquisitions of Italian citizenship (135,814) decreased by 26.4%. Almost 37% of acquisitions of citizenship concerned Albanians (27.112) and Moroccans (22.645).<\/p>\n<p>People that acquired the Italian citizenship between 2013 and 2017 were likely to remain in Italy. In fact, 87.8% of the \u201cnew Italians\u201d were still resident in our country on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>With regards to households, families with at least one non-EU-citizens were 1.3 million, while 321 thousand families were composed by at least one Italian citizen and one non-EU person.<\/p>\n<p>Unipersonal households accounted for 33.8% of families with non-EU-citizens, families with two persons accounted for 15.9%, families with three persons for 16.3%, families with four components for 17.5% and families with more than four persons for 16.5%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs5.istat.it\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Cittadini-non-comunitari_EN.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #999999;\" title=\"Non-EU Citizens: presence, new inflows and acquisition of citizenship\" src=\"http:\/\/docs5.istat.it\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Cittadini-non-comunitari_EN.png\" alt=\"infografica\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 90%; text-align: right; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px; display: block;\">Click the image to download pdf<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>For information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cinzia Conti<br \/>\nPh. +39 06 4673.7366<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:ciconti@istat.it\">ciconti@istat.it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fabio Massimo Rottino<br \/>\nPh. +39 06 4673.7589<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:rottino@istat.it\">rottino@istat.it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 1st of January 2018, non-EU foreigners holding a residence permit in Italy were 3,714,934. 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