Italy, like almost all European countries, is included in the Schengen Agreement and for Russians and the CIS countries to visit this country need to receive a visa.
The list of necessary documents is standard, nothing new is invented there. But in practice, it is the issuance of Italian visas delayed. It must be considered and as soon as possible to collect and take the necessary documents. And they need to serve them in Italian visa centers. But it must be said that the Italian government encourages lovers of this country and if the tourist has already visited Italy for the past few years, then he can give the annual multivitz. And if such a thing happened, he visited her tourist several times, the Italians can be cleared at all and give a visa for a period of two or three years.
Like any visa, this one can be issued through a travel agency and independently.
For a visa through a travel agency, the following documents will be required:
- The term of the passport must be at least three months from the end of the alleged trip. And there is also such a nuance - if the visa is drawn up in St. Petersburg, then clean pages in the passport should be at least three. And in other visa centers it is enough to have one. You also need to make a copy of the first page of the passport
- All old passports canceled too
- From the Russian passport you will need a copy of pages with a photo and registration
- One photo, including this concerns the child who is entered into the passport of parents
- Questionnaire filled in English or Italian. If the child is entered into the passport of the parents, then it will also have to fill out a questionnaire and incur in the photo
- Also, it is also not going anywhere from a reference from the place of work, where it is written in detail when you settled it there, what position do you have a salary and whether you have gathered in Italy to pay.
For a schoolchild, there will be a certificate from school, for a student - a student card, for a pensioner - a pension certificate. And also for all of them will need to present a sponsorship and a document that the sponsor is his relative.
Its financial consistency can be confirmed by extracting from the personal account, a copy of the savings record or travel checks.
For people up to 18 years old, you also need to have a birth certificate and permission from parents for departure in two copies.
If there is a desire to do the design yourself, then the following documents should be prepared:
- Original and copy of tickets, electronic version too
- Confirmation of hotel booking and its payment
- Invitation from a citizen of Italy, if you drive to this country to visit
- Medical insurance, the sum of its coating should be at least 30,000 euros.
To submit documents, you must contact the Italian visa center in Moscow.
There you must first sign up. And also this can be done at the Consulate of Italy.
The consular fee for a conventional visa costs 35 euros, and the line 70.
But there are categories of citizens who are liberated from this collection. These are children under 6, close relatives of EU citizens, disabled and some other categories. In my opinion, very humanely from Italy.