Golden passports: even in Italy you can! by Silvio Ceci

How many people in the world dream of moving to Italy? And how many emigrants dream, after so many years, of being able to return to their homeland? In the world, a large slice of the population dreams of our country, aspires to a beautiful house in the hills of Tuscany or an apartment with a sea view in Sicily or Sardinia. With the arrival of the pandemic, much of the world aspires to move to healthier areas, where it is possible to walk freely on the streets, exercise without restrictions and even breathe without fear. In this Italy is an example and it is for this reason that many foreign entrepreneurs would be willing to invest their resources in the Bel Paese.

What limits them then? The local bureaucracy and, in particular, the failure to implement the Golden Visa project, which has met with considerable success in Portugal.

But what is the Golden Visa?

The Golden Visa project is in effect a permanent residence permit that guarantees its holders the right to live in the country that grants it and participate in the naturalization process in compliance with local regulations, obtaining dual citizenship. The idea of ​​the Golden Visa was born to be the so-called "plan B", ie the possibility of living well even away from the place where one was born. To date, the program has been particularly successful in Portugal, which in ten years has collected 54 billion euros from foreign investors who, thanks to this program, have obtained residency. In fact, Portugal is the most sought after place by families with the highest purchasing power in the world.

A few examples? In Cascais, called the Monte Carlo of Portugal: in this town 35% of the population is foreign and has arrived there thanks to the Golden Visa program and the tax regime offered by the country. In Cascais there are more than ten international schools, a myriad of bilingual schools and in some of them there are waiting lists of over five years. Furthermore, thanks to the Golden Visa, a vast real estate sales market has opened up, making it almost impossible to find a property to buy. The average price of houses per square meter has risen in Lisbon from € 500 in 2010 to over € 6000 to date.

Foreign investors are investing in all of Portugal's economic activities (hotels, farms, etc.).

Portugal has become the safest place to live in Europe, climbing the world rankings very quickly and this thanks to the desire to welcome foreigners, offering social integration, a lean bureaucracy and tax exemption for ten years.

Couldn't Italy do the same? Precisely in this the Gobbi family believes, which for over twelve years has fulfilled the dream of many foreign investors, having already helped them to have the recognition of citizenship and fighting for the recognition of the iuris sanguinis rights of many Italians who emigrated abroad.

The Gobbi Consultoria and Assessoria, based in San Paulo Brazil, whose overseas manager is Fernanda Micheli Gobbi, is very proud to devote itself more and more to breaking the boundaries for all those who have the right to dual citizenship. Gobbi Consultoria e Assessoria has offices in Brazil and Portugal, has a team of dozens of employees and is consolidating itself as one of the most reliable consulting companies in the world in this field, being the fourth most important company in the world in this sector, also mentioned among the leading companies in the world by the prestigious Forbes magazine.

After years of dreams come true and results obtained, Fernanda Micheli Gobbi and her team have embarked on a new challenge: they have created a Golden Visa Italy project that fits perfectly with Italian culture and is competitive with other Golden Visa. Gobbi believes in the freedom of movement of people through citizenship or residence. Fernanda Micheli Gobbi, who is an Italian living abroad, believes she can bring to Italy the benefits that the Golden Visa introduced in Portugal.

For this reason, the President of the Gobbi Group recently flew to Italy and proposed to various groups of parliamentarians the introduction of the "Gobbi Decree", that is a decree that takes its name from the family, which emigrated to Brazil, which aims to modify and improve the current legislation on the Italian Golden Visa, so as to streamline bureaucracy and allow foreign investors and Italians residing abroad to enter Italy.

What advantages would derive from the introduction of an "improved Golden Visa" in Italy?

This new model would obviously bring great economic well-being, an increase in population density, the creation of new jobs, an increase in tourism, a better performance of the real estate market.

Furthermore, no less important, there would be a massive return to the origins of many emigrants, who would return their capital to the banks of their native soil. The implementation of an Italian Golden Visa would introduce a new vision of residency, namely the concept of "non-habitual residence", a special tax regime that will allow those who bring high net worth to Italy a non-tax regime.

This has led to Portugal, referring to 2020 data, over ten thousand French families, seven thousand British and six thousand Brazilians, many of which have obtained the recognition of the iuris sanguinis.

Italy is the most loved country in the world and, if the Golden Visa reformulated by Gobbi were activated, most foreign investors would not hesitate to choose it for their residence.

In addition to Portugal, there are only four other nations in Europe that have approved or are approving the project, it would seem that there is a race to grab new investors and new citizens who come from all over the world to live the European dream. From a recent study, the Italian passport is one of the most loved in the world and for this reason we cannot afford the luxury of not taking advantage of this opportunity.

So why lose it? It would be a new beginning for Italy and the Gobbi family is ready to give everything to make it possible.

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