POLICE CERTIFICATES ITALY / Sharing my experience

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30th dec 2015

I wanted to share my experience with everybody about asking police certificates/police records from Italy for my K1 visa.

There are forums that talks about this topic, there is references here and there, but I never came across a full experience and full description of the process. So I will tell about my experience with the hope it helps some VJ folks.

The official information about this process is from the website of the Italian minister of justice: https://www.giustizia.it/giustizia/it/homepage.wp

NOTE/ The following post is only based on my own experience and what I have learn from this process. My post may contain mistakes and inaccuracies. Your situation may differ from mine and I encourage you to check all the information and your own personal situation that may have variations from mine, to avoid delays and problems that I cannot be accounted for.

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Definition and Process:

The Certificato Generale del Casellario Giudiziale is a certified national record of final court convictions and decisions regarding mental incompetency and bankruptcy or a statement that no such record exists (Nulla).

The Certificato dei Carichi Pendenti is a certified record of pending criminal charges, or a statement that no such charges exist, from the office of the Procura della Repubblica.

. I requested Both certificates for my K1 visa in Paris.

Persons within Italy can obtain the Casellario Giudiziale by applying in person or by mail at any office of the Procura della Repubblica. Those who apply in person must submit a written request, a photocopy of a photo ID and all fees; the certificates are usually provided the day of the request.

Persons outside of Italy can obtain the Casellario Giudiziale and the Carichi Pendenti by writing to:

Ufficio del Casellario Giudiziale della Procura della Repubblica
Piazzale Clodio
00195 Rome (RM) Italia

Those requesting the certificate by mail, whether from within or outside Italy, must submit a written request, a photocopy of a photo i.d., and all fees, along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Mail requests are normally processed within three working days.

Information concerning fees and application procedures is available from any office of the Procura della Repubblica or online at https://www.giustizia.it which is the website of the Ministry of Justice.

My experience:

Asking an Italian police record if you are not born in Italy and don’t live there can be quite epic.

I personally needed for my k1 visa at the Paris embassy:

1-The Certificato Generale del Casellario Giudiziale

1-certificato dei carichi pendenti (certificate of outstanding criminal proceedings)

There are four major challenges that I faced during the process:

-The demand must be asked by written letter or directly at the office in person or by a delegate.

-You need fiscal stamps that can only be purchased in Italy at specialized tobacco shops or at the procura office.

-Rome postal services are unreliable, broken, not working, any adjective that describes a complete mess.

-Rome office made a mistake on birth place on my certificate.

I made a trip to Italy on the 7^th of dec 2015 to buy directly the duty stamps needed at a Tabaco shop since I can’t buy those in France.

7DEC 2015/ I sent from Venice my letter to the Ufficio del Casellario Giudiziale della Procura della Repubblica -Piazzale Clodio -00195 Rome (RM) Italia.

The letter was containing:

<>-Official form completed.(can be downloaded here: https://www.giustizia.it/giustizia/it/mg_3_3_3.wp?tab=m )mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><>-Photocopy of passport<>-Letter with my address for the return of the certificates (without postal stamps)mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><>-two Marca da bollo di 19.84 € for the two certificates I asked.<>-two Marca da bollo di 3.84 € for emmergency feesmso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><>-two Marca da bollo di 0.93 € for the expedition of the certificates.mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><>-(check the fees on the official website, the fees can change, and you may need less stamps or more depending of your situation)mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><>-

10DEC 2015/The Procura of Rome received my letter.

11DEC 2015/ The procura sends my certificates to my address in France.

Meanwhile I used the following email address to ask the procura if my certificates have been sent and they answered me in the day: procura.roma@giustizia.it

2JAN 2016/I finally received my two police record, the general and the pending charges. The second one had an error on my birth place, I was suddenly born in a French city in Argentina.

At that point I decided to personally go to the procura to have the record be corrected.

13JAN 2016/ I took a flight from Paris and went to Rome at the procura that is precisely at this address below:

PROCURA DELLA REPUBBLICA PRESSO IL TRIBUNALE DI ROMA

UFFICIO DE CASELLARIO GIUDIZIALE

Via Mario Amato, 13-15
00195 ROMA (RM)

The office of police records in Rome is like a big waiting room. There are kiosks and you have to pick a number and wait your turn to present your demand.

I directly went to a kiosk for explaining my situation and an officer came and asked me to come in his office. He apologized for the mistake and made directly a correct and new police record in front of me.

At the Paris American embassy, all documents that are not written in English or French need to be translated.

I then asked a competent translator for having my two Italian police records being translated in English.

I hope my long post will help some people that need these precious documents.

Finally, I may have made mistakes and inaccuracies. Your situation may differ from mine and I encourage you to check all the information, fees, address etc on the official website of the Italian ministry of justice. Good luck.