The next step is toobtain a residencepermit, which must be applied for within eight days of entry into Italy. The Law Firm provides assistance and consultancy for the purpose of requesting the issue or renewal of a residency permit, again without any limit of type (permit for medical treatment, study, work, religious reasons, etc.).
If the application for the issuance or renewal of a residence permit is denied, or if the foreigner has his residence permit revoked, or if the deadline set by law for the conclusion of proceedings is violated, we provide legal aid before the competent judicial authority.
We also deal with application procedures for the conversion of residence permits, e.g. from study to work, and provide assistance and advice aimed at applying for or updating a long-term resident's EC residence permit (former residence card) .
The firm dedicates an important space to practices aimed at obtaining family reunification, assisting the client both in the phase of presenting the application for a nulla osta at the Sportello Unico per l'Immigrazione (Single Desk for Immigration) and in that of applying for an entry visa at the competent Italian Embassy.
We also deal with family cohesion practices, which are identical in terms of requirements to family reunification, but differ from this in that the foreigner is already present in Italy and that the first phase of the application for the nulla osta is missing: we proceed directly to the application for the residence permit.
Finally, assistance and advice is provided in favour of family members of EU citizens (e.g. Italians), pursuant to Legislative Decree 30/2007, either to be admitted to Italy or already present in Italy, for the issuance of a residence card for family members of EU citizens.
We also practice in Schengen practices, aimed at obtaining the cancellation of the client's name from the Schengen Information System (SIS): an obstacle to entry into the Schengen Area.
We assist foreigners in the procedure aimed at clearing their criminal record and the charges resulting from the law enforcement database.
The firm assists the foreigner in the procedure aimed at eliminating the prejudices of a criminal conviction, with the aim of increasing the chances of acceptance of a future application to be submitted to the Public Administration. The intervention consists of two stages: theapplication for rehabilitation, and, in the event of a successful outcome, the application to obtain the obscuring of the criminal record (relating to the criminal record subject to rehabilitation) from the Police Force Data Bank.
The prejudices entailed by the measure of registry office cancellation are well known, in particular for the purposes of the application for Italian citizenship. In order to try to avoid this serious prejudice, we propose a multi-stage legal intervention, which starts with a request for access to the acts, the aim of which is to obtain the revocation of the registry office cancellation order, either spontaneously (in self-defence) by the same municipality that adopted it, or through the intervention of a judge, in the event of a dispute.
Our range of action has no boundaries or preferences: foreigners who wish to have a fundamental right recognised in Italy (e.g. the right to health of a foreigner who requires an entry visa for medical treatment because he or she cannot be treated adequately in his or her country of origin), foreign entrepreneurs who wish to apply for an investor visa or who wish to purchase property in Italy and require real estate consultancy, or even retired foreigners who wish to enter Italy with a visa for elective residence, can all turn to us.
