I have heard of a program that pays Americans to teach English in Italy and provides housing and pay, how does that work? How do i go about getting a dual citizenship?
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To work in Italy you need a work permit, which must be applied for by your employer in Italy. AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN because Italy is part of the EU and they have to give priority to any citizen of the EU first. To study in Italy you must enroll in a university and obtain a student visa. This is relatively easy but requires a few months of logistics. To become a citizen of Italy, there are several ways. The best way is to prove that you are of Italian descent and satisfy all the criteria of citizenship "by blood". Other ways include: - by marriage to an Italian citizen (after 6 months in Italy or 3 years outside of Italy) - by naturalization (after several years as a permanent resident)
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In order to go to school here you would need to to be accepted to a school here and have an education visa; this is the visa site for Italy: http://www.esteri.it/visti/home_eng.asp . The site has links to the application and information about the requirements and other supporting documentation you need to supply. A work visa is different. I am not aware of any program that pays Americans to teach English in Italy and provides housing. This may be something through a US university program if it exists - something like a semester or year abroad. However, it is illegal for you to work here without having a work visa (that's on the site above too). European regulations require that employers advertise jobs and demonstrate that there are no viable European candidates before they can get a work permit for someone else. Europeans have the right to live and work here. In the town where I live, there is a language school which hires young people on short term contracts to teach English. However, the teachers are always from the UK or Ireland because they can work here without all the overhead involved in hiring other foreigners. When I got my visa for Italy, the process took 8 months and that was just for a job that was transferred from the US to Italy that I had already been doing for several years. Be aware that as an American expat, you would need to file income tax returns both in Italy and te US if you were working here. Citizenship is another matter. That's a long process that takes years with some exceptions if you have direct Italian heritage.
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you would need a psychologist :) I'm Italian and I would do "somersaults" to live in California!
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Do ragione al tizio sopra di me, in tanti vorrebbero trasefirsi a Malibu'.
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Ok, first of all, do you have any family members that have lived in Italy? Because my sister went through a citizenship process that took over a year... It is really annoying, but if that's where you dream of living, go for it... but it helps if you speak italian :)
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hahahaha you live in L.A and you wanna go in italy???? hahahahahahah stay here...
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You may have heard of the program that pays people to teach English but then, taken by the excitement, you must have forgotten to wonder HOW MUCH DO THEY PAY you to do that. I can grant is not much. (Sometimes below 1000 euros a month, with maximum peaks at 1300/1400 euros for really good teachers in really good schools) Also, as many others stated, due to a series of laws EU created, priority goes to EU citizens. All that said, provided you have the requirements to teach, you may apply to the various English School chains we have in Italy (although i am almost sure they are sourcing staff from UK and Ireland, with an US minority). Last but not least, Italy is undergoing a really bad economic crisis and there is a certain lack of jobs, which may make your life hard. That detail, combined with the high living costs caused by Euro and underpaid jobs without warranties, makes life really uneasy in Italy, which is not that Heaven it used to be BEFORE euro and EU begun to take over the country. If i were you, i'd look into Asian countries, where teaching if definitely better paid, flexible and life is bubbly and without worries. A plus is, IT IS FULL OF AMERICANS FED UP OF AMERICA AND THE LACK OF A WELFARE SYSTEM who come here to live, study, enjoy a more relaxing life and GET FREE HEALTH CARE. Cheers
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To start with you would need such a vast amount of luck you'd probably drain the whole of California just to find a job. Trust me, come on holiday to italy, but think long and hard before coming over. It's seriously tough for natives, just think for someone who needs to get their grips with a new tax system, a new health system, a new language, new bundles of red tape, etc etc etc... as well as finding a job.
