Practical instructions: First assistance contribution for asylum seekers
Who may ask for contribution
The foreigner that required international protection recognition and has the right to reception and for whom it’s not possibile to find a place among the centres financed by the “Fondo Nazionale per le Politiche e i Servizi dell’Asilo” (= National Fund for Asylum politics and services) namely the government centres.
The applicant then must be in a poverty state verified by the Police Office.
How to ask for contribution
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[ 2 June 2008 ] |
Practical instructions – The procedure for the recognition of international protection
Who can introduce the request for the recognition of international protection
The request can be done by the foreigner that intend to ask Italian State protection because he/she escapes from persecutions, tortures or from war, even if he/she entered irregularly in Italy and devoid of documents.
The applicant will have to justify in the request the circumstances of persecution or serious damage which caused his/her escape.
The agents of this persecution or serious damage may be the (...)
[ 27 May 2008 ] |
Leaving and re-entering Italy while waiting for the renewal of the visa (Permesso di Soggiorno) – The old rules will become effective from the first of April.
The transitory rules established by the Ministerial Memorandum from the 12 December 2007 will expire the 31 of March 2008.
Once again, facilitations to leave and re-enter Italy for visa holders waiting for renewal (those who hold only the receipt testifying that the application for the renewal of the visa has been submitted), are un-understandably destined to expire.
The Ministerial Memorandum from the 12 December 2007 stating that visa holders waiting for renewal are allowed to cross (...)
[ 28 April 2008 ] |
Leaving and re-entering Italy while waiting for the renewal of the visa (Permesso di Soggiorno)
Practical instructions updated the 14th of December 2007
Temporarily, until the 31st of March, 2008, visa holders waiting for renewal are allowed to cross terrestrial, maritime, or aerial borders within the Schengen area.
The Poste Italiane receipt (given to a visa applicant upon submitting an application for visa renewal) will be sufficient in order to exit and re-access Italy.
This right had been granted by a directive of the Interior Ministry from the 5th of August 2006. There are further and more specific ministerial memorandums.
First (...)
[ 28 April 2008 ] |
A information guide for market mendors
Consequences from penal and administrative point
A information guide for market mendors.
"Risk a street vendors takes when working without a licence"
Index :
1°The consequences from all the administration point of view
1.1 What possible actions can be taken against the administrative sanctions
1.2 Practical advise to follow if administrative sanctions are incurred
2° Consequences from penal point of view sales of imitation goods, cd, dvd, bags ect.
2.1 Consequences from the penal point of view with respect to migrant citizens with a (...)
[ 5 October 2006 ] |
A detailed guide on contraception
By Regione Emilia-Romagna
Know how to choose: a detailed guide on contraception
1. How to choose method 2. How we are done 3. The natural methods 4. Coitus interruptus 5. ‘The pill’ 6. The condom 7. Emergency contraception 8. Contraception via injection 9. IUD (Intrauterine device)
[ 30 April 2004 ] |
Apostille
This is a possibility that only citizens coming from countries which signed October 5th 1961 Aja Convention concerning the abolition of public acts legalization are entitled to. This convention has been signed and accepted by many countries in the years following its enactment, it provides for that documents legalization can be substituted by the so called apostille (in English: marginal note).
What exactly is the apostille? The apostille is a marginal note that must be written on the (...)
[ 6 December 2003 ] |
Legalizing foreign documents
Legalizing documents (certificates, acts, etc.) that come from foreign countries is a problems all foreign citizens face when they need them in Italy. This means that legalizing documents as provided for by law is particularly difficult.
Example - Someone wants to get married in Italy, this person needs his/her birth certificate and the authorization to marriage. These documents must be legalized since self-certification is not allowed.
Self-certification is generally accepted in Italy by (...)
[ 21 November 2003 ] |
Legal aid in 15 questions
FIRST OF ALL
The right to legal defence. The Constitution of the Italian Republic Clause 24. “Everyone is allowed to take legal action for the protection of her/his rights and legitimate interests. Defence is an inviolable right at any grade of the proceedings. The means of action and defence before all Courts are guaranteed to the indigent by public institutions.The law determines the conditions and legal means to remedy miscarriages of justice”
- GENERAL INFORMATION
1) What is legal aid? (...)
[ 2 October 2003 ] |
Naturalization and citizenship assessment
It is very importont to distinguish between assessment and concession of Italian citizenship, the two things are completely different. Law n. 91/1992.
Italian citizenship concession also said naturalization – this is what happens to foreign citizens whose parents are NOT Italian. Law provides for that the ones having regularly lived in Italy for at least 10 years can apply for Italian citizenship and the state can choose to release it or not. This is a discretional measure and releasing (...)
[ 20 September 2003 ] |
Inps memorandum on social assistance
Financial aids cannot be moved abroad. If the person moves abroad he/she loses the cheques. These cheques are a sort of a pension, an assistance measure that goes to people who cannot work anymore but do not hold the right to a pension. An example: Financial aids also go to migrant citizens holding residence paper. Unfortunately the full parification of rights to all citizens was partially boycotted by 2001financial law (388/2000) which says that ONLY residence papers holders can run for (...)
[ 20 February 2003 ] |
Family rejoining: what has Bossi-Fini law changed?
Changes to immigration set of rules, introduced by law 189/2002, do of coarse strongly modify instructions on family rejoining matters. These show changes under many aspects:
1) people allowed to family rejoining; 2) requisites needed; 3) documents that must be given in and proceedings to follow;
Law 189/2002 restricts subjects allowed to family rejoining (1). Previous laws let regularly residing migrants to ask for the rejoining of the following relatives: a) husband or wife (not legally (...)
[ 20 February 2003 ] |
Dependency benefits
If the person entitled to the receival of such benefits moves abroad, he/she loses the right to dependency benefits. Inps states so and explains this social help as well.
Dependency benefits are a pension service recognized by precise anagraphical and income requisites. Its own peculiarity is that it is “non-exportable”. Therefore in case the holder changes residence abroad, the service is not paid out anymore.
The right to dependency benefits is allowed when the following conditions are (...)
[ 20 February 2003 ] |
Obtaining Italian citizenship in case of marriage
A person can become an Italian citizen:
if he/she is married to an Italian person
when having regularly lived in Italy for at least six months
after three years of marriage when living abroad (of coarse no divorce nor annulment can occur).
Where to go
Five copies (the original needs to have a 10 euros revenue stamp on it) of the application form must be given in at local Prefetto, or at the Italian consular authorities when living abroad, and then the application form must be (...)
[ 20 February 2003 ] |
Marriage between an Italian citizen and a foreign citizen holding no residence papers
Italian law states that the bureaucratic procedure to follow is quite simple. Civil Law provides for that a foreign citizen marrying an Italian man or woman needs to give few documents in.
Which documents are needed?
An internationally valid ID (identity card), this is to say a passport.
A translated into Italian birth certificate coming from the person country of origin, the certificate must be certified at the local Italian embassy.
The country of origin authorization (this document (...)
[ 20 February 2003 ] |
