It is more difficult for Italian immigrants to apply for family reunion.

The Italian Council of Ministers recently adopted a new regulation on family reunion, according to which it will become more difficult for immigrants to apply for parents and 18-year-old adult children to reunite in Italy. However, the new regulations still need to wait for the opinions of Congress before they can finally take effect. At the same time, according to the statistics of the Italian Ministry of the Interior, by the deadline of May 365,438+0, about 60,000 Italian labor applications were approved in 2007.

According to the EU Times, if the new regulations come into effect, the regulations on family reunion will return to those in 2002, and it will be more difficult for immigrants to apply for parents and adult children over 18 to reunite in Italy. At present, family reunion is the second channel to enter Italy legally after the application of labor, and 35.6% of immigrants hold family residence.

The new regulations are stricter and difficult to apply.

If the new regulations come into effect, the applicant spouse must be at least 18 years old. For adult children, the current rule is that if the child has health problems and cannot support himself, one parent can apply to go to Italy. In this case, if the child is mildly mentally retarded but can do some simple work with help, but he is definitely unable to live completely independently, he can apply to go to Italy. The new regulations require that children must be severely disabled and completely unable to take care of themselves before they can apply to Italy.

The new regulations are stricter for parents who need immigrant support. Immigrants can only apply for their parents to be in Italy if they have no other brothers and sisters in China, and their parents must be over 65 years old. For immigrants who have brothers and sisters in China, they must show proof that their brothers and sisters cannot take care of their parents due to serious health problems. This reform eliminates the situation that although the applicant has brothers and sisters in China, he is unable to support his parents because of poverty and unemployment.

Finally, the new regulations stipulate that the Italian consulate can require the applicant and the respondent to do DNA tests without proof of kinship and in case of doubt about the authenticity of kinship. At present, this test is voluntary.

If the new regulations come into effect, it will not affect applicants who have submitted their applications according to the existing regulations but have not received a reply, and those who have obtained nulla osta will not be refused visas because of the changes in the regulations.

Completed 60,000 labor service applications

According to the statistics of the Italian Ministry of Interior, as of the deadline of May 3 1, about 729,000 applications were submitted in 2007, and about 60,000 applications were approved, accounting for 8% of the total, of which 34,000 applications were sent to nulla osta, and 2,000 applications were put on hold due to the cancellation of employment by employers. The remaining 23,000 applications were rejected by the police (6,000) and the regional labor department (17,000). As in the previous data, it is difficult to pass the application in the regional labor department because they will strictly check whether the applicant meets the employment conditions.

Nulla osta, which has been issued, is not the last pass to legally enter Italy. To apply for immigration, you must apply for an entry visa at the Italian consulate in your country of origin. Although 34,000 copies of nulla osta have been issued, only 6,000 applicants have been granted entry visas, because some of them are already in Italy, and they are still hesitant to risk being deported at the customs to get visas back to their original country of residence, while others have been delayed to get entry visas because of the delay or non-compliance of consular offices. According to the data, it is difficult to complete the examination and approval work in a short time.