A Story of Italian Red Passport
By Aditya Shankar
A passport is an initial identity of a citizen. It is very essential for traveling abroad. Because it carries national identity. For this, there is no alternative for travelling another country. If that passport holds a power than any other passports, then who does not take that chance to get that passport.
Italian red passport holds that power than any other countries. Many Bangladeshis spent their life to get the passport. Many Bangladeshis couldn’t get that opportunity to become an Italian red passport holder.
As time and youth passed on, they spent their last youth in their dream land Italy. In order to get passport, they have to obey some rule and for this the youth becomes old and some of them goes toheaven.
This is how the Bangladeshis spending their lives like these. In the meantime, some of them did application in showing their respect to the law and got their red passport. They feel like the whole world is in their hands.
But what is the meaning of getting a passport after a decade in their middle age. Everyone wants to come in Europe and see its beauty. Those who come to Italy in many other ways, they spend their lives in diverse ways.
To gain a red passport, a person has to wait for ten years since his arrival inItaly. Before that, he has to get a stay permit and after that, he has to get a permanent address to get the passport. If the permanent address completes ten years, then he can do an application for citizenship by law. He cannot do this process if ten years is notcomplete.
Then those who are expecting citizenship, they have to give their annual income statement, obey the law respectively, not to get involved in fraud, not to get any quarreling without any reasons, not getting involved in any treachery. By examining these conditions in migration office, a person can get their passport in two years. Before that they have to take oath in the migration office.
Legal and illegal people get desperate to get this wild goose. This passport ranks in 3rd position in scale of power. This passport is free from visas of 28 Schengen countries. If a passport holds an Italian visa then they can travel easily ibn 28 countries. This is why everyone is passionate for the red passport.
Besides, it is on 157 position in global ranking. An Italian red passport holder can travelin 124 countries without any visa. In a report of World Tourism Organization which waspublished on 15 January, 2016 says that, Italian red passport holds 1st potions in theworld. Two lakhs Bangladeshis with other immigrants waits to get this passport.
Racism is very normal thing in Italy but this country is the only European country which has human rights. That is why they don’t send back illegal immigrants easily. For this many people uses Italy as a transit to get in Europe.
Italy has a little country. It is the Vatican City where the almshouse of Christians was built. Many people around the world come to see the Vatican City. Many Bangladeshis lived for decades in this country of prosperity and thousands of Bangladeshis got its citizenship.
Jamir Hossain
