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# 78 APRIL 18 , 2016
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THE INTERVIEW:
Carlo Piccolo and
Lauren Hopkins
An Italian passport
to officially recognize being Italian
We don’t know how many
of you know this, but there
is a thing called «Passport
Index» which ranks the
passports of the world,
based on their Visa Free
Score. The higher the Visa
Free Score, the better the
Passport Power Rank. Italy
is ranked third : not bad,
right? Still, this is not why
so many Italian Americans
apply for their Italian passport: a tough, expensive, sometimes almost impossible procedure, that
requires a lot of patience no mistake, they ALREAand committment.
DY ARE Italians, who are
just applying for the offiThe reason why so many cial recognition of this :
Italian Americans want but they are Italians even
their Italian passport is without a piece of paper
love, passion and pride of that certifies it. Our guebeing Italians: and this is sts today, Carlo Piccolo
something amazing. Make
46 | WE THE ITALIANS
www.wetheitalians.com
By Umberto Mucci
and Lauren Hopkins, are
in the business of helping
in achieving this goal, with
their project called Your
Italian Passport. Dual citizenship is a huge topic
for our readers, and we’re
glad to have two beautlful