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Forum: Italy

Jul 31st 2012, 11:12 am

Replies: 38

Private Schools in Italy

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Posted By aledeniz

Re: Private Schools in Italy

Most of the kids in my borough were sent to this school: http://www.scuolamediadestefano.it/

They refused me because my parents lived 4m outside their catchment area, as taken with a compass, and...

Forum: Italy

Jul 31st 2012, 10:27 am

Replies: 38

Private Schools in Italy

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Posted By aledeniz

Re: Private Schools in Italy

Put it another way, in that city I could tell you exactly in which school I would suggest you to put your children in (which means also I would suggest you to rent an house in a specific district, as...

Forum: Italy

Jul 31st 2012, 10:23 am

Replies: 38

Private Schools in Italy

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Posted By aledeniz

Re: Private Schools in Italy

Nope.

The quality of private schools varies wildly between cities, and sometime inside the same city.

Where I grow up, some state schools were excellent and oversubscribed many times over,...

Forum: Italy

Jul 31st 2012, 9:34 am

Replies: 100

Italian Citizenship with marriage

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Posted By aledeniz

Re: Italian Citizenship with marriage

They were probably hoping he was going to show them an Italian passport full of visa stamps but with no tax sticks, and throw some hefty fine on his head, I have seen similar scenes before.

The...

Forum: Italy

Jul 31st 2012, 9:17 am

Replies: 38

Private Schools in Italy

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Posted By aledeniz

Re: Private Schools in Italy

Yes, but most Italian parents with a child born in January will send them to a private school, the so-called "primina", at the end of which, passing a specific examination, the child will be admitted...

Forum: Italy

Jul 30th 2012, 5:29 pm

Replies: 100

Italian Citizenship with marriage

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Posted By aledeniz

Re: Italian Citizenship with marriage

I must add that there is an Italian law stating that they have to grant citizenship to spouses of Italian citizens in less than 730 days. I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that if they don't...

Forum: Italy

Jul 30th 2012, 5:12 pm

Replies: 100

Italian Citizenship with marriage

Views: 29,161

Posted By aledeniz

Re: Italian Citizenship with marriage

My wife applied 2 years ago, she got the code to check its status (codice k) in their website 15 months later (only because I went to ask it in person, and produced at their request a handwritten...

Forum: Italy

Jul 30th 2012, 3:13 pm

Replies: 21

Planning to retire to Sicily - need advice

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Posted By aledeniz

Re: Planning to retire to Sicily - need advice

I am a Sicilian born and bred, who moved in London in his thirties.

I hold a degree from a northern Italian red brick university (I'd daresay the, in the specific field), I like to think about...

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