Friday, October 01, 2010

ADMISSN IN ITALY (Non-EU citizens living abroad)

ADMISSION IN ITALY

Non-EU citizens living abroad

Non-EU citizens living abroad can come to Italy with a study visa within the "quotas" set up by each Italian University in the month of March.A pre-enrolment through the Italian diplomatic Representation is compulsory usually between the month of April and May of each year. Every year, towards the end of April, the timings are set by the Ministery of Education By the end of July Italian Universities confirm by fax the admission to the University and send to the Italian Embassies the calendar of the admission exams, the rules on how to apply for benefits to Opera Universitaria and all necessary information for the on-line registration to the University of Trento. 

Please, make sure to get all necessary information.
 
An Italian admission exam is to be taken at the beginning of September except for:

- Master's courses in English language
- students holding an Italian Secondary School leaving ("maturità italiana)
- students with an official certificate of Italian language of at least B2 level,

given by University of Siena or Perugia or by the Italian Cultural Center within an agreement with these Universities.

Students have to be in Trento anyway for the last days of August 2010.
The reference office is for any communication is:
Welcome Office – University of Trento
Via Verdi 6 - 38122 Trento (Italy)
e-mail: welcome@unitn.it
Useful links
Ministerial Circular 2008-2011
Italian Diplomatic Representations abroad

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Voluntary Return

Voluntary return
For information desk can be contacted by the Return of the Veneto Region.
Pension rights in case of return:The Immigration Act provides that in case of definitive return, to hand over the residence permanently to the border authorities, foreign workers who had an employment relationship of permanent and temporary, preserve the rights and welfare Accrued social security in Italy and will be entitled, at the age of 65 years of age, the retirement pension paid by the contributory scheme, although they have less than five years of contributions required of the law.
When you can apply for recognition of the contributions of the work:

You can apply for recognition of the contributions already paid in addition to those paid by Italy in their own country or latro only if there is an international agreement between Italy and their country of origin.These agreements allow each country to settle the pension according to their national legislation. To this end, the right to a pension is assessed by considering the contributions from all states, if not overlapping.
Italy has signed bilateral agreements on social security with the following countries:

Argentina, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada-Quebec, Croatia, Jersey, Channel Islands, Macedonia, Monaco, the Republic of Cape Verde, Republic of San Marino, Republic of Yugoslavia, Slovenia, United States of America, Tunisia , Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela. The agreement between Italy and Yugoslavia in 1957 will remain in force with the Republic of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (including Kosovo), even after the declaration of independence of those States.

From 1 August 2002 is in force a new agreement with Slovenia.
At the moment, however, there is no such bilateral agreement and between Italy and Ukraine and Moldova.
Normative reference:Immigration Consolidation Act (Legislative Decree 286/98) supplemented and updated in August 2009 (rules of Law 94/2009)

Temporary return (May include temporarily)




1. Foreigners legally resident in Italian territory

which allowed the temporary move abroad, with the possibility of re-entry in Italy.An alien lawfully resident in Italy and transferred abroad, can return to Italy by presenting a passport at border control or equivalent document and a residence permit or a residence permit or EC long-term resident permit valid.The residence permit can not be renewed or extended if it appears that the alien has interrupted his stay in Italy for a continuous period of more than six months or, in the case of residence permits of at least two years, for a continuous period of more than half the period of validity of residence permit, unless such interruption is dependent on the need to fulfill their military obligations or other serious reasons.
2. foreigners pending renewal of residence permitthat can come from Italy and re-enter if they have:

    
* The receipt issued from Italian SpA attesting to the `application has been lodged for renewal of their residence permit or residence card,
    
* The permit expired,
    
* Passport or equivalent document.
3. aliens who have applied for the first issue of a residence permit for employment, self-employment or family reunificationprovided that:

    
* The exit and return to take place through the same border crossing;
    
* The alien to show your passport or other travel document equivalent, together with the entrance visa from the results expressed as the reason for the stay (employment, self-employment or family reunification) and the Italian Post Office receipt SpA;
    
* The trip does not include transit through other Schengen countries (see note), the same being prohibited.


Note - The Schengen Area is the set of national territories of countries applying the Schengen Convention: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Malta and Switzerland.


Also:With its circular dated 27 June 2007, it was determined that the alien with children under 14 can ask the police to issue a residence permit and provisional license valid only on paper. On the title to be entered with minor children in this way can leave temporarily to Italy.


Normative reference:Immigration Consolidation Act (Legislative Decree 286/98) supplemented and updated in August 2009 (rules of Law 94/2009)