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Flows decree – Watch out!

In the past days we received a mail of a foreign lady that asks us for explanations about flows decrees. The question concerned the problem of people trying to make money out of flows decrees.

QuestionHello,
I need your help. My son is in Moldova and I have been trying to have him come to Italy for years. He could neither obtain a tourism visa. I was recommended a lawyer and I explained him of the situation. The lawyer told me that the only way of having my son come to Italy is to find an employer and to apply to flows decree quotas. I asked a friend of mine (and her lawyer) to help me. She accepted, she will sign all necessary documents but she will delegate her lawyer at Local Labour Department. Everything was prepared… and one year and a half passed by but my son has not come to Italy yet. Past summer I received a letter from the lawyer and the letter contained his fee: 1,082 Euro!
I haven’t signed anything when the lawyer started working and I was never told I had to pay. In addition to this no-one has ever applied to have an entry authorisation issued. Later I got to know that the application could be given in via registered letter and that they were ready without the need of a lawyer.
I would like to know why I should pay for that sum! Help me!

Answer – The only thing I noticed in the fee you attached is that the object for which you should pay is not described. Papers do not say that this lawyer worked to have an entry authorisation issued.
In case this sort of professional assistance was meant to apply to flows decree quotas, the employer should pay for it – from a strictly legal pint of view. It is the employer that signs the application to flows decree and no-one else could instead.

We studied this situation, which is one of the many we are signalled of: citizens that are proposed sort of professional assistance in order to apply to flows decree, they ask for money and they guarantee “a hundred per cent regularisation”.
From a technical and professional point of view, the fulfilment of application is rather easy: citizens need to fill in forms that are downloadable at our web-page. Then they just need to send forms. In addition to this granting the success of the application is not very serious because – as we well know – available quotas are very few if compared to applications. The only way of obtaining an entry authorisation is that forms are correctly filled in and that they are sent as soon as possible.

Be careful!
We tried to simplify the matter in order to suggest everyone to be very careful because there are some subjects that guarantee more than they can actually realise, they ask for money and they of course cheat people.