00:00It's a small village where everyone wants to eat food.
00:10In our Gujjati, we say that it's a river and a river.
00:13The river feels good, but it's not fun.
00:21My request is that it's not a relative to it.
00:24It's not a relative to it.
00:30More than 5,000 kilometers away from their homes in Gujarat and Punjab,
00:36Mehul and Pammie are making rotis in a gurudwara on the outskirts of western Rome.
00:43Pammie stays and works at the gurudwara. His visa expired three months ago.
00:50Mehul, who frequents the Sikh temple, is waiting to hear back on his visa application too.
00:55Unsure of what lies ahead, they now await the decision of the Italian government.
01:25I have not considered that and they are asking me that India has a big country because I am the west part of India, Gujarat.
01:34So in Gujarat, we are not like the critical situation like Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan, you know.
01:45So that's why they reject my application.
01:50So I have taken my documents here and taken my documents here.
01:56Italy has the third highest Indian diaspora in the European Union.
02:01Mostly from Punjab, migrants come searching for better paying jobs.
02:06Georgia Maloney, the Prime Minister of Italy, who belongs to the Brothers of Italy Party,
02:12has for long campaigned against migration.
02:16Illegal, but also legal.
02:18I've been explaining many times, telling many times to my colleagues,
02:23that we've had for a long time, the first nationality of illegal migrants coming to Italy was from Bangladesh.
02:29They came to a boat from Tunisia, on a boat from Tunisia or Libya,
02:37but they were passing four, five countries.
02:42However, in an unexpected move in July of this year,
02:46the far-right PM announced plans to issue 500,000 visas to non-EU immigrants between 2026 and 2028.
02:56Perhaps in a bid to meet the early demand of 280,000 workers needed in Italy.
03:06Back at the Gurudwara,
03:09Mehul, who is waiting for a residence permit,
03:11is optimistic after Maloney's announcement,
03:14but admits that grass is greener on the other side.
03:18In our Indian community,
03:23they say that the grass is good.
03:28The grass is good.
03:29When the grass is good,
03:30it's very good.
03:31When the grass is good,
03:32you know how big the grass is.
03:34It's a red grass is a red grass,
03:37when everyone wants to eat.
03:40to just just like I have to do is go up to me and I'll be able to do so I'll be able to do
03:50it I'm going to do it I'm going to do it I'm going to do it I'm going to do it I'm going to do it
03:56When he first moved to Italy, the Gurudwara helped him.
04:16But the head priest Inderjeet knows that here, life is not what it seems.
04:21And many a times, the migrants' vulnerability is exploited.
04:26Because there is no work permit in Italy, there is no work permit.
04:33Donkeys are allowed to do it.
04:38And the people who are working, they don't know that there is no work permit.
04:44Because the people who don't have 10 euros without a document,
04:49they don't have 4-5 euros per day.
04:51That's why they are not allowed to do it.
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05:23While Mehul, Pammi and many others await regularization and hope for the best, Inderjeet
05:49makes a request to his people back in his homeland.
06:19I can't do it, but I can't do it.
06:26So, people can't do it and they can't do it.
06:28They do it and they will do it.
06:31They will get out there.
06:32So, someone wants to help them.
06:38help
07:08more than the people who are listening to the family,
07:11the people who listen to their families,
07:15they have many mistakes,
07:19while they are getting out of trouble and they do not have to make it.
07:24But the majority of our families are doing the good stuff,
07:29they get the support of their families,
07:33They are related to the
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