Fiona May, Olympic Games and world championship athlete (cropped)

The Naturalized athletes of Italy are those

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citizens who are part, or have been part, of the

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The

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and consequently

FIDAL The Italian Athletics Federation (Italian: ''Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera'', FIDAL), is the governing body for athletics in Italy since 1906. The Italian Federation, founded on 21 October 1906, on initiative of ''La Gazzetta dello Sp ...

firstly, and than the

IAAF World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for ...

, grants Italian

citizenship Citizenship is a "relationship between an individual and a state to which the individual owes allegiance and in turn is entitled to its protection". Each state determines the conditions under which it will recognize persons as its citizens, and ...

, than the Italian passport, therefore the

naturalization Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-citizen of a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country. It may be done automatically by a statute, i.e., without any effort on the part of the in ...

, to those citizens of foreign origin born in Italy (Italians therefore of second generation), or who have contracted marriage with an

Italian citizen Italian nationality law is the law of Italy governing the acquisition, transmission and loss of Italian citizenship. Like many continental European countries it is largely based on '' jus sanguinis''. It also incorporates many elements that are ...

for the following reasons. *Automatically **

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: for birth; **If an Italian citizen recognizes, at a time after birth, a minor child; **For

adoption Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from ...

; **To obtain or re-obtain from a parent. *Following declaration **By descent; **

Ius soli ''Jus soli'' ( , , ; meaning "right of soil"), commonly referred to as birthright citizenship, is the right of anyone born in the territory of a state to nationality or citizenship. ''Jus soli'' was part of the English common law, in contras ...

: by birth or descent in Italy; *By marriage or naturalization **By marriage: the foreign or stateless spouse of an Italian citizen may acquire Italian

after two years of legal residence in Italy or, if residing abroad, after three years from the date of marriage; **By naturalization: the foreigner can apply for Italian citizenship after ten years of legal residence in Italy, reduced to five years for those who have been recognized as stateless or refugee and four years for citizens of countries of the

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(However, in the case of children born in Italy from foreign parents, citizenship is obtained by the eighteenth birthday).he Italian law allows to obtain the Italian citizenship at the end of the eighteenth year, even if the parents, of foreign origin, are already Italian citizens and their son was born in Italy. You are Italian citizens from birth if even one of the two parents is Italian. When there is is last update verified naturalization.

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