Notice to Users
A phishing campaign (scam email) targeting foreign citizens in Italy has been detected. The campaign aims to fraudulently obtain personal data by cloning the Foreign Ministry’s official website https://vistoperitalia.esteri.it/
We therefore recommend always carefully checking the reliability of incoming email communications and, when in doubt, manually typing the website addresses, without clicking on the links contained in suspicious emails.
Link to the original AgID alert: https://cert-agid.gov.it/news/phishing-sulla-verifica-del-permesso-di-soggiorno-prende-di-mira-i-cittadini-stranieri-in-italia/
At the end of a gradual process of adaptation to the common visa policy laid down in the Convention Implementing the Schengen Agreement, Italy entered the Schengen system on October 26, 1997.
The strengthening of the common external border was therefore followed by the parallel and gradual abolition of internal border controls. Hence the so-called Schengen Area was achieved with full freedom of movement throughout the countries of all the signatories to the Schengen Agreement.