Directorate General for Italian Citizens Abroad and Migration Policies

Director General
Cristina Ravaglia

Acting Deputy Director General/Central Director for Services to Italians Abroad
Francesco Saverio Nisio

Deputy Director General/Central Director for Migration Issues and Visas
Marco del Panta Ridolfi

Telephone 06 3691 2814
Fax 06 3691 3816

Office I – Enhancement policies for Italian citizens abroad

• Promotion, coordination and policy guidelines for Italians abroad;
• legislative proposals;
• relations with the General Council of Italians Abroad (CGIE), contributions to the Committees of Italians Resident Abroad (COMITES) and assistance bodies;– assistance for indigent Italian nationals abroad;
• Italian associations abroad;
• Members of Parliament of Italian descent throughout the world.

Office II – Language and culture promotional activities for Italian citizens abroad

• Educational and academic initiatives for Italians abroad, for the dissemination of Italian language and culture;
• informational, cultural and recreational activities;
• monitoring of the broadcasting of RAI ITALIA programmes abroad;
• vocational training and related activities in non-European countries.

Office III – Consular services concerning citizenship, civil status, travel documents and navigation

• Citizenship and stateless status, civil status;
• ordinary and temporary passports, identity cards, Emergency Travel Document (ETD), driving licenses;
• social security agreements;– pension payments and war pensions;
• relations with national social security bodies;
• consular services in navigation matters.

Office IV – Protection and assistance of Italians abroad, measures to address the international abduction of minors, international judicial cooperation

• Coordination of consular activities regarding the protection and assistance of Italians abroad and of EU citizens not represented in third countries;
• assistance to detainees, repatriations;
• measures to address the international abduction of minors;
• recovery of loans with the promise of restitution;
• international judicial cooperation (extradition, prisoner transfers, letters rogatory, notifications, transmission of extra-judicial documents);
• administrative notifications, coordination of notary services, legalisation and non-contentious proceedings.
  

Office V – Consular Services, Register Office and voting for Italians abroad (absentee voting)

• Maintenance of the central register of Italian nationals abroad (AIRE);
• coordination of procedures regarding voting abroad for general and European elections and referendums, in liaison with the other ministries concerned;
• procedures regarding elections in organisations representing Italians abroad.

Office VI – Entry Visas for Italy and the Schengen area.

• Central Italian authority for implementation of the Schengen agreements;
• application of Italian and European Union provisions on issuing entry visas for Italy and the Schengen area;
• legislative proposals on these matters in association with the other ministries concerned;
• assistance for the diplomatic-consular network in matters concerning visas;disputes pertinent to visa denials.

Office VII – Bilateral and multilateral cooperation on migration, refugees and international adoptions

• Legal questions concerning foreign nationals in Italy;
• issues related to the implementation of international protection measures in Italy;– protection of foreign minors in Italy;
• bilateral migration agreements in liaison with the other ministries concerned;
• analysis of foreign communities in Italy and migration flows in liaison with the other ministries concerned;
• participation in interministerial planning of incoming flows of foreign nationals;
• multilateral social and migration cooperation (UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), International Labour Organisation (ILO), International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and Council of Europe) and management of ILO-IOM financing.