Italy Golden Visa Family Planning: A Legacy That Lives Across Borders

For families planning with the next generation in mind, Italy’s Golden Visa offers more than just a residency permit. It’s a way to create meaningful access to opportunity, stability, and a European way of life.

This isn’t just about paperwork. It’s about giving your children and loved ones the chance to live, study, and grow in a country rooted in history, culture, and continuity, without needing to change everything about how you live today.

Under Italy’s investor visa framework, a single qualifying investment enables not just the principal applicant, but also their spouse, minor children, and dependent adult children or parents to apply for residency. There are no additional investment thresholds. No need to restructure the family portfolio.

That means one well-structured investment can unlock:

• EU healthcare and education for your children

• A stable, Schengen-wide foothold for elderly parents

• A pathway to citizenship for future generations who choose to reside

It’s important to understand what this really entails. While full-time relocation isn’t mandatory for the initial residency permit, a consistent presence in Italy is required to qualify for permanent residency or citizenship. And while citizenship can extend to future generations, it’s subject to Italian law at the time of birth.

Still, Italy’s policy remains one of the more inclusive and family-aligned in Europe. Immediate family members are eligible with proof of relationship or dependency, and the requirements, including income and accommodation, are attainable for most families already considering investment-level capital deployment.

Ariete Capital’s structure was built with this in mind. Our investment company qualifies as a regulated pathway under Italy’s investor visa. But more importantly, it provides real ownership in Italian public equities, cultural assets, and selected alternatives, a portfolio that can hold meaning across generations.

And for many families, the residency is just the beginning. Children who choose to study or work in Italy can apply for permanent residency after five years and for citizenship after ten, provided they meet integration requirements. That citizenship, once granted, may be passed on to future generations born abroad, depending on Italian nationality law.

This is a long-term foundation, one that creates continuity and resilience for families thinking decades ahead.

In a time when mobility, identity, and jurisdictional safety matter more than ever, that foundation can become part of the family story.

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