Migrants are eligible for long-term residence permits under the best rules of all 28 MIPEX countries (see box). Applicants must prove that they have sufficient income and insurance, but the conditions do not impose an integration test. Migrants' security as long-term residents is halfway to best practice, since they cannot leave the EU for more than a year at a time. In making an expulsion decision, only some elements of migrants' personal lives are taken into account. Even children and those born and socialised in Italy can be expelled. Italy would reach best practice on rights if long-term residents were allowed to also hold long-term residence permits in other EU Member States.
