{"id":430,"date":"2023-02-15T04:19:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T03:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/?page_id=430"},"modified":"2023-05-23T06:53:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T04:53:45","slug":"consular-assistance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-italiano\/consular-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Consular assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Consulate General can provide assistance to Italian citizens temporarly or permanently residing in Victoria and Tasmania in a proven state of distress or financial hardship.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary><strong>SUBSIDIES<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To be eligible for a subsidy, the applicant must be an Italian residing abroad and must give evidence of both urgent material need and insufficient personal means. The applicant must provide information about his\/her personal financial situation, supported by relevant documentation such as tax returns, pensions receipts or subsidies provided by local Authorities, invoices of medical or pharmaceutical expenses, bank accounts etc.<br \/>\nA home visit by one of our Consular Officer may be necessary in order to ascertain financial distress.<br \/>\nPlease note that subsidies are given only in exceptional circumstances.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong>LOANS<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Loans can be provided to Italian nationals who are temporarily abroad and find themselves in exceptional need of financial support.<br \/>\nBefore extending such a loan, the Consulate General will contact the relatives of the concerned party in Italy, who are required by law to provide financial support in such a circumstance, unless they can prove that they are unable to do so (their situation may be verified with a home visit by officials from the Italian Police).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you need legal assistance, you can consult a list of private Italian speaking professionals in Victoria and Tasmania, by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/chi-siamo\/contatti\/italian-speaking-doctors-and-lawyers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Consulate General can provide assistance to Italian citizens temporarly or permanently residing in Victoria and Tasmania in a proven state of distress or financial hardship. SUBSIDIES To be eligible for a subsidy, the applicant must be an Italian residing abroad and must give evidence of both urgent material need and insufficient personal means. The [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":118,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-430","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430\/revisions\/1079"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}