One Regime Reaches Italy From Outside, and It Does Not Reach This Corpus
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Guyana on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
98 exceptions recorded across 37 countries · none match Guyana to Italy · Residency under a regional treaty
Italy belongs to the European Union's free movement regime, which reaches nationals of member states, of the European Economic Area and of Switzerland and nobody in this corpus. There is no Ibero-American or Mediterranean equivalent: nothing lets an Argentine or a Brazilian enter and stay in Italy on nationality the way a Mercosur national can inside South America. What Italy has instead is descent, and that is a question of citizenship rather than of residence - the ancestry record carries it, including the 2025 article that closed it.
At a glance
- A regional movement treaty that reaches Latin America
- None
- The Union regime
- Reaches member states, the European Economic Area and Switzerland
- What Italy offers instead
- Descent, now limited by article 3-bis of Legge 91/1992
The numbers are the article and the year of Legge 91/1992, quoted on the ancestry record, not quantities.
- Naturalisation for EU citizens
- Four years instead of ten
Article 9(1)(d) of Legge 91/1992, on the citizenship record.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Guyana
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Nationals of third countries listed in Annex I shall be required to be in possession of a visa when crossing the external borders of the Member States.»Quoted to show what the Union does decide for a third-country national arriving in Italy: the visa, and nothing about staying.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text is explicitly not authentic - EUR-Lex says so on the document - and only the Official Journal version has legal force. It also says nothing about how any member state applies the act: a regulation is directly applicable but the border practice, the evidence an officer may ask for and the national exceptions are in national law, which is published elsewhere.
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Practical notes
This record says what is not there, which is the honest answer for a reader who expects Italy to work like Mercosur. The movement answer is on the entry, work and family records.
Italy has bilateral agreements with several Latin American states on social security and on driving licences; those are recorded, where they are recorded at all, on the topic they belong to.
- consolidatesRegulation (EU) 2018/1806, consolidated version
EUR-Lex, Publications Office of the European Union · consolidated to 2025-12-30
About this source
The Union's legal database. Publishes each act as adopted in the Official Journal and, separately, a consolidated version carrying every amendment to a stated date, identified as 0YYYYRNNNN-YYYYMMDD. The consolidated text marks each amended passage with the instrument that changed it.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text is explicitly not authentic - EUR-Lex says so on the document - and only the Official Journal version has legal force. It also says nothing about how any member state applies the act: a regulation is directly applicable but the border practice, the evidence an officer may ask for and the national exceptions are in national law, which is published elsewhere.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source