Exactly one year ago, families, firms or factories started all pardon procedures to regularize workers up to then irregularly employed.
Today very few Prefectures were able to evaluate all applications and complete proceedings. Venice Prefecture is one of them, in fact about a thousand forms are still awaiting to be studied. Anyway this city Prefecture can boast one of the highest number of contracts signed compared to other councils.
Few words are however necessary in order to understand which matters prevent regularization proccedings from being over (and I think the problems we are to talk about are all over Italy the same).
First of all, many hearings are still to be called. Summertime made signing some contracts difficult since many employers and employees didn’t come to the hearing since they were on holyday. Unfortunately, this makes another hearing necessary and workers must wait for it to be appointed.
Other two problems must be taken into consideration: during regularization many letters sent to call employers/employees to the hearing never reached final destination or arrived too late and then – since many months passed by from the day applications were given in – working relations often changed in status (because of employers death or dismissals). This sometimes makes interested people hard to be found.
I therefore would like to appeal to all those ones who have never received any information on their regularization application and proceedings: in case you were not called for the hearing, in case you changed address or job, I suggest you to refer to Venice council information desks which are still working and handing out news on regularization proceedings on basis of an agreement reached with local Prefecture.
Now that application forms are decreasing in numbers, the so called “complex or difficult” cases become an unavoidable matter. We are talking about all those people who cannot be regularized according to law 189/2002 and law 222/2002 (people who were expelled via deportation, people charged of crimes connected to criminal code articles 380 and 381, foreign citizens, signalled by international agreements, who cannot be accepted in Italy).
In case of regularization denial, we suggest that interested people, via a lawyer, ask to verify the reasons of the denial through their papers. In fact information police headquarters receive from the national police data system on complex cases seem not to be particularly detailed and it sometimes happened that while police stated that a migrant citizen had to be taken to borders the interested person could prove via showing documents that he/she left Italy alone.
Another way of taking time and maybe reaching regularization is appealing to court against expulsion orders, which are not anyway suspended. A lawyer can appeal against those articles that state that regularization cannot be completed on basis of their constitutional lawfulness (it is for example the case of people reported and charged because of having stoled an apple).
Last but not least, it has sometimes occurred that some foreign workers regularizations were stopped because their employers had legal problems in the past and therefore cannot employ foreigners as police headquarters evaluation proved. This is a very delicate situation, we sincerely hope that good sense prevails and that these people are to be regularized and residence papers (even looking for a job temporary ones) are handed out. Otherwise, people, who so longly waited for papers to come, would be “punished” because of being employed by “wrong” employers. This would clearly be a prank.