Two amendments inspired by Giorgia Meloni’s government aim to change immigration rules regarding family reunification and repatriations. The proposals enter the Constitutional Affairs and Justice committees of the Senate, where the justice and migrant decree is under discussion, with rapporteurs Marco Lisei of Fratelli d’Italia and Erika Stefani of the Lega. The line is clear. On one hand, a fast track for managers, researchers, university professors, and highly qualified non-EU workers, who will be able to request reunification immediately. On the other hand, a crackdown on detentions: up to twelve additional weeks in cases of risk of escape or obstruction to repatriation.
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The majority aims to bring the decree to the Chamber with a mandate to the rapporteur. But over 500 amendments and obstructionism from the opposition can slow down the examination and lead the measure to the Assembly without a mandate.
Family Reunification
A manager will be able to bring their family to Italy immediately. A bricklayer will have to wait. The same line will separate a researcher from a shop assistant, a university professor from a caregiver: for highly qualified non-EU workers, family reunification will be immediate. For others, the requirement of two years of residency will remain before even being able to submit the application. A fast track designed to “incentivize the entry of specific categories of workers particularly in demand by the market.”
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Derogation from the two-year period. The principle established by the amendment is to broaden “the sphere of foreign citizens entitled to request the reunification of family members identified by current legislation, in derogation from the minimum two-year period of stay in Italy for the applicants.”
Beneficiaries and eligible persons. Until now, the exception applied only to “beneficiaries of international protection.” Now the Government wants to extend it to professions considered most useful and most difficult to attract.
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