Friday, November 19, 2010

Residence card (Carta Soggiorno), does the Italian test?

Rome - November 16, 2010b-On December 9, 2010 comes into force the Decree of 4 June 2010, establishing new rules for issuing residence permits CE.

In fact, the decree laid down the procedures for conducting the test of knowledge of Italian, under Article 9 of Legislative Decree 25 July 1998, No 286, introduced by Article 1, paragraph 22, letter i) of Act No. 94/2009.

From 9 December 2010, foreigners applying for residence permit EC should undergo this test in Italian language, for the law "the alien must have a level of knowledge of the Italian language that allows you to understand sentences and frequently used expressions in current fields, corresponding to level A2 of the Common European Framework for knowledge of the language approved by the Council of Europe. "

So before applying for the permit need to ask the EC to carry out this test in Italian.

Not all are required to conduct this test, in fact, are excluded from this requirement children under fourteen years of age, (also born out of wedlock, and their spouse), foreigners with severe limitations on the ability 'of language learning arising from 'age', from disease or disability, in this last case should be issued with a certificate from the public health facility.

They are also exempted those who had studied in Italy that have graduated from secondary school in the first or second degree, or studying at university or attending a master or a doctorate.

Even foreigners who have attended courses, including evening, held in Italian language Permanent Territorial Centres for adult education, working with educational institutions of all levels and are in possession of knowledge of Italian language no less than so-called level A ". Even the lecturers, academics, performers and journalists are officially accredited entered with Article 1 letter c 27 cm q.

The request for conducting the test must be submitted to the competent Prefecture Teleservices, according to domicile.

The regional authority shall convene the alien within 60 days of the request by sending a notice which shall be recorded the time and place where the test will be performed in Italian.

The test can be done either by computer or written in a manner in any case, the contents of the test and the time given is equal and even assessment. On the day of the stranger is identified and must show the call received.

Both in the case of a positive or negative to the Prefecture inform the foreigner, and will put the result in the information system of the department for civil liberty and immigration ministry of the interior, so that the police shall satisfy the level of Italian language for issuing residence permits CE.

If the test fails the alien will have to reapply again at the Prefecture to make the language test.

In the event that the alien must not perform any tests to verify competence is the police who will check through the certified copies of diplomas or certificates

Mortgages. Rate suspended thanks to the Solidarity Fund

Up to eighteen months on the sidelines. Here are the requirements to submit an application

Rome - November 16, 2010 - Helping low-income families and struggling with the mortgage. It finally became operational on the Solidarity Fund of the State yesterday in the bank allows you to submit an application for suspension of payments, but only under certain conditions.

The facility is who reimburse at least a year for the first home mortgage not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand euro and in family economic situation indicator (ISEE) not more than thirty thousand euro. It must also use one of the following conditions set by the government:

- Loss of job;

-The death of a family that received at least 30% of their income;

-Medical expenses of at least five thousand euro;

-Restructuring charges, maintenance or adjustment of the house at least five thousand euro;

-Increase the mortgage payments on variable rate by 25% if the rates are half or 20% if monthly.

The suspension may be asked twice and a total of more than eighteen months. Interest during this period is paid by the Solidarity Fund, but remains with the spread of the casino loan, ie the gain on each installment of the bank. The precise conditions and application forms are available at the Treasury Department, www.dt.tesoro.it.

The Solidarity Fund is now available for twenty million euro, which finished the end, even the facilities. This does not concern those who have already obtained the suspension of payments from your bank under the "Family Plan" in February triggered by the Italian Banking.

Meanwhile, the consumer association Codacons rejected the Solidarity Fund. "The conditions are too restrictive, Regulation and 'an insult will affect a small portion of 530 000 households would need to suspend your mortgage payments. Even - Codacons-estimated the number will be lower than the 31 000 who have managed to suspend the moratorium by Abi. "

A million children 'foreign', more than half were born here


Rome - November 18, 2010 - There are 932,000 foreign children living in Italy. 6 out of 10 of them are second generation (so-called G2), that 'born in Italy. Meadow with 19.7% under the second generation of its total foreign population, Mantova (17.2%), Cremona (17%), Brescia and Reggio Emilia (16.9%), South Trapani (14, 2%) and Palermo (12.7%) are the provincial capitals with the most 'high percentage of G2.

And 'what emerges from' Treasure Island-Atlas of children (at risk) in Italy 'for Save the Children, presented today along with the new interactive website www.atlanteminori.it at the Bank of Italy.

But there are also children and adolescents almost nameless and faceless, almost 'invisible' cause their lives are partly or completely hidden and clandestine, hundreds of mostly minor 'and only foreigners who stay for short periods in the community' to then run away, or who end up in circuits of labor exploitation, sexual deviance. In 2010 are at least 4,500 unaccompanied foreign minors in Italy.

One thing sure to default, which does not include, for example, children new EU citizens. And foreigners are thousands of child workers: 9% of all working children, estimated at about 400,000. They are mostly Chinese, in Rome, Milan and Florence, Prato, Romanians and Albanians, Roma and Bari, young North Africans in Sicily and Calabria.

Carlino (IDV), "Extension of residence permits to those who lose work through no fault"


Italy of Values amendment to change the law on the crime of illegal immigration

Rome - November 18, 2010 - "The current legislation on the crime of illegal immigration is absurd and must be changed: for the immigrants who remain without employment for reasons beyond their responsibility, IdV requesting the extension of a residence permit for another 12 months ".

The proposal was presented yesterday by Senator Julie Carlino, leader of Italy of Values in Work Commission, who announced the amendment to change the text only currently governing immigration.

"We believe that this amendment could be decisive, by law, the situation that has unfortunately been created and which threatens to escalate and explode all over Italy, as was the case in Brescia and Milan" in the senator concluded.

Bill in the House. Turkish: "The exasperation of immigrants do not end up on the crane"

Rome - November 6, 2010 - We extend the adjustment in the economic sectors where the stronger is the presence of foreign workers, to give "to Italian citizens and immigrants who live and work in our country the tools to do so regularly."

It is believed Livia Turkish, responsible immigration and social policies of the Democratic Party, which has just filed a bill in the House for a new regularization. A text which "wants to build on the positive measures adopted in 2009, which allowed the legalization of hundreds of thousands of workers involved in helping families."

The proposal of the Democratic Party takes over almost verbatim to the procedure already used last year to bring out three hundred thousand chores, but applying it to other areas. These, says Turkish, "will be chosen from time to time by the Ministry of Labour in consultation with the Interior in order to avoid unnecessary steps or generalized amnesty."

The parliamentary initiative comes in conjunction with the noisy protests of Brescia and Milan. "We do not want the aggravation of immigrants end up on the crane. To insist with the Bossi-Fini law, which does not include regular entries, which provides for deportation after serving six months without employment contract and that only brought an increase in clandestine means continue to cause serious social and economic damage to the country, "concludes the Immigration Officer of the Democratic Party.

UIL: "A solution for the undocumented workers"


Rome - November 12, 2010 - A solution "just and possible" for those who, having a job, stayed out of the regularization. This is the appeal of the UIL in the face of extreme forms of protest in place in Brescia and Milan.

"There are many cases of foreigners who participated in the process of emergence and were deluded that their application was accepted, even if they had been hit by a warrant of deportation. Unfortunately, at the beginning the rules were not clear, and as such were required subsequent judgments to clarify who was entitled to the adjustment or not, "said William Loy, confederal secretary of the UIL.

"Today - said the union - the situation could get complicated in the absence of proposals for the reasonable solution."

According to the UIL, the way forward "is not one of despair." It serves instead "a comparison of the merits of legislation to improve in order to respond to the reality of thousands of people who work honestly, even without having a valid residence permit."

"We call on the government - concludes Loy - to take control of the situation immediately and find a just and possible."