Welcome to a new episode of Integration or ReImmigration, I’m immigration lawyer Fabio Loscerbo.
Today I’d like to explain to a UK audience a debate developing in Italy that touches broader European questions on migration governance.
Part of the discussion around Italy’s 2026 immigration bill still looks at five years of lawful residence as a possible threshold for more stable immigration status.
My argument is that this is a structurally weak criterion.
Time alone does not prove integration. Five years may show duration of stay, but it does not necessarily show social participation, respect for civic norms, linguistic integration or meaningful contribution to the host society.
And that is why I believe the reform should move in another direction.
Rather than a purely time-based model, I argue for an integration-based criterion, centred on what in Italy is called an Integration Agreement.
The key legal question should not be: how long has someone been here?
It should be: has this person integrated?
For a British audience, one might see this as shifting from a passive residence threshold toward a model based on measurable civic integration.
And that has practical implications — for residence rights, protection statuses, and the broader architecture of immigration law.
This is also where my broader framework, Integration or ReImmigration, comes in.
The principle is straightforward: those who integrate remain; where integration fails, return policy becomes part of the system.
Not time as automatic entitlement, but integration as the governing legal standard.
And for that reason, replacing the five-year threshold with an integration criterion is, in my view, the only reform that truly makes sense.
Thank you for listening, and I’ll see you in the next episode of Integration or ReImmigration.
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