{"id":53229,"date":"2016-06-07T12:46:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T10:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2016\/06\/portale-il-visto-per-l-italia-premiato-2\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T12:46:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T10:46:40","slug":"portale-il-visto-per-l-italia-premiato-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2016\/06\/portale-il-visto-per-l-italia-premiato-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s visa portal wins Innovation Prize at SMAU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs&#8217; portal &#8220;Visa for Italy&#8221; will be awarded the Innovation Prize for excellence at the SMAU exhibition in Bologna, an international IT and office furniture fair to be hosted at Bologna Fiere on June 9 and 10. &#8220;Visa for Italy&#8221;, which recorded over two million hits since it first began in April 2015, is the result of a cooperation between the Directorate General for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies &#8211; DGIT, and the Directorate General for Management and Information and Communications Technology- DGAI.\u00a0 It is currently available in Italian, English, Russian and Arabic ( the four most common languages used by people applying for a visa to Italy), and will soon be available in Chinese, too.<\/p>\n<p>Italy issues more than 2.5 million visas every year through its 160 embassies and consulates. The website has a user-friendly portal designed to provide visa-related information for foreigners wishing to visit Italy for tourism, business or other reasons. The portal sets out a few questions and provides a personalised response.<\/p>\n<p>The site provides information on both Schengen and Italian visas, but it also allows for the\u00a0downloading of forms applicants need to\u00a0fill in, so to streamline the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs&#8217; portal &#8220;Visa for Italy&#8221; will be awarded the Innovation Prize for excellence at the SMAU exhibition in Bologna, an international IT and office furniture fair to be hosted at Bologna Fiere on June 9 and 10. &#8220;Visa for Italy&#8221;, which recorded over two million hits since it first began [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}