TikTok sensation Khaby Lame granted Italian citizenship TikTok: khaby.lameTikTok\u2019s most-followed creator Khaby Lame has been granted Italian citizenship, having lived in Italy since he was one year old after his family moved there. 22-year-old Khaby Lame is a comedy creator on TikTok, where he has over 140 million followers. He surpassed the former most-followed creator Charli D\u2019Amelio in June, and he has continued his reign in top spot ever since, much to fans\u2019 delight. The TikToker was born in Senegal in 2000, but his family moved to Chivasso, Italy when he was just one year old. Now, after living in the country for 21 years, Khaby has officially been granted Italian citizenship. The star took his oath of citizenship on August 17 in Chivasso. According to the European Commission, Italian law says that, \u201cthose born to non-citizen parents can acquire citizenship if they were born in Italy, have had uninterrupted residence until turning 18, and have submitted a statement of intent within one year of their eighteenth birthday.\u201d However, these regulations continue to prompt debate among critics, due to the number of people who are denied citizenship. In a now-deleted tweet from June, Italy\u2019s deputy interior minister, Carlo Sibilia, said: \u201cDear @KhabyLame, I wanted to let you know that the decree granting you #Italiancitizenship was issued in early June by the Interior Ministry. Soon you will be contacted by the local office notifying you about your oath. Good luck.\u201d Speaking to reporters about being granted citizenship, Khaby reportedly said that he\u2019s \u201cvery proud\u201d and that he feels \u201ca great responsibility for the oath\u201d he took. He added: \u201cIt is not that before, before signing, I didn\u2019t feel Italian, so very little has changed. But now I am officially Italian, on paper.\u201d Khaby is best known for his hilarious wordless reactions to some of the internet\u2019s most useless life hacks and craziest videos, and he has racked up an astonishing amount of views and likes on his content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikTok sensation Khaby Lame granted Italian citizenship TikTok: khaby.lameTikTok\u2019s most-followed creator Khaby Lame has been granted Italian citizenship, having lived in Italy since he was one year old after his family moved there. 22-year-old Khaby Lame is a comedy creator on TikTok, where he has over 140 million followers. He surpassed the former most-followed creator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}