Know where you stand

Belong Italy helps you track your journey from residence to Italian citizenship.

Belong Italy tracks how far you are from Italian citizenship. It is honest about the part you control and the part you do not. Below is what each tab does.

Built around the rules that apply in Italy.
Fully available in English and Italiano.
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Everything lives on your iPhone and nothing is sent anywhere.

On device only. No account, no tracking and your data never leaves your iPhone.
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One tracker, two looks

Choose the classic Midnight dark look or the new Mediterranean light theme with a warm coral accent. Switch any time from the You tab. Everything else stays exactly the same.

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Dashboard

How far am I, really?

The Dashboard splits the journey into the part you control and the part you do not. The bar shows how close you are, and below it Belong Italy lists the routes open to you: the general ten year route, the two year route for descendants of Italian citizens, the three year route for people born in Italy, the four year EU route, the five year refugee and stateless route and the marriage route, each carrying its own status. Italy decides citizenship administratively through the Ministry of the Interior, so your route reaches a real finish line.

Your fastest eligible route always rises to the top. Routes that don't apply to your situation fold away below.
What ifNew

What if I passed the B1 tomorrow?

What if sits on the Dashboard and answers that without touching your file. Flip the B1 to passed, add a marriage to an Italian citizen, spend six months abroad, and watch your finish line move under the real Italian rules. It runs on a copy of your situation, so nothing you try is saved and nothing you entered changes.

A sandbox, not a promise. The same rules that drive your Dashboard drive the scenario, and the Ministry's own queue still belongs to the part you do not control.
Path

What stands between me and the decision?

Path opens your route and lays out every requirement in order. A green tick is met and a blue dot is in progress: ten years of legal, continuous residence, Italian at level B1 from a recognised body — CILS, CELI, PLIDA, CERT.IT or Ce.Co.L — sufficient declared income over the three preceding years, and a clean criminal record. Each item explains the rule in plain language and links to the official source, the Ministero dell'Interno or the Università per Stranieri di Siena.

Long-term EU permit holders and holders of an Italian school qualification are exempt from the B1 certificate, not from the income and record requirements. Path knows the difference.
Standing

What could set me back?

Standing watches the moving ground, your time abroad and your record. Italian law sets no statutory day count, continuity is judged on your anagrafe registration staying unbroken, so Belong Italy measures your longest stay abroad against a six month line and tells you honestly when a trip could put your continuity in question. That figure comes from the permit rules and from how comuni handle long absences, not from the citizenship law, which fixes no number of days. Your record sits here too with a plain read on the clean record requirement.

Short, documented absences do not break your residence. Standing is where you keep the proof straight.
Practice

Which certificate actually counts?

Practice gives the language requirement its own place. There is no citizenship knowledge test in Italy — the requirement is Italian at level B1 — so instead of inventing a quiz, the tab tells you exactly what counts: reading, listening, writing and speaking at CEFR level B1, the shorter B1 Cittadinanza format CILS runs for citizenship applications, and the five recognised bodies — CILS, CELI, PLIDA, CERT.IT and Ce.Co.L. The official material sits one tap away, and a certificate from anywhere else does not count.

Long-term EU permit holders and holders of an Italian school qualification are exempt from the certificate. Belong Italy points you at the real requirement instead of a test that does not exist.
News

What just changed?

News is getting a partner. A collaboration with The Local Italy is in the works: the immigration and citizenship news that actually affects your path, filtered to Italy, in plain language and delivered inside the app. Until it lands, the News tab says exactly that — and nothing pretends to be live before it is.

No fake feeds. What you see in the tab today is the honest state of what is coming.
You

What drives all of this?

You is where every number comes from. Set the month you became resident and a short list of honest toggles: permanent residence, marriage or civil union with an Italian citizen, your citizenship background, the income line and the B1. Change one and the Dashboard updates right away. Your language choice lives here too, English or Italiano with one tap, and so does the legal disclaimer, because Belong Italy tracks the rules but does not give legal advice.

Start here on day one. The rest of the app is only as honest as what you enter.
Coming up

One subscription, iPhone and web

A Belong Italy account arrives in Q3 2026, together with the web app: sign in with your email and use the same subscription in any browser. On your iPhone the tracker stays on your device. What you enter on the web will be stored on our servers, so it is waiting at your next sign-in.

iPhone app + Web app

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