{"id":763,"date":"2023-04-17T03:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T01:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/?page_id=763"},"modified":"2024-04-16T03:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T01:26:19","slug":"italian-and-shengen-area-visas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero\/italian-and-shengen-area-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian and Schengen area entry visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Consulate General of Italy in Melbourne accepts applications for visas only from Victorian or Tasmanian residents.<\/p>\n<p>For more background information on visas to Italy click<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/ingressosoggiornoinitalia\/\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are\u00a0<strong><u>only two<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0categories of visas processed at this Consulate General:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero\/schengen-visasfrom-1-to-90-days-in-the-schengen-area\/\"><strong>SHORT \u2013 TERM SCHENGEN VISA<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n(to stay from 1 to 90 days in the\u00a0<u>Schengen area<\/u>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero\/national-visas-from-91-to-365-days-in-italy\/\">LONG \u2013 TERM ITALY\u2019S NATIONAL VISA<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n(To stay from 91 to 365 days in\u00a0<u>Italy<\/u>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Australian citizens<\/strong>\u00a0are allowed to visit any of the Schengen countries without a visa for a period of up to\u00a0<strong>90 days in each 6-month period<\/strong>\u00a0for purposes of tourism or study.<\/p>\n<p>EU citizens will not require a visa to enter, stay and\/or work in any of the Schengen countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong>\u00a0This Consulate General reserves the right to reject visa applications. In order to obtain any type of visa you will need to fulfill specific requirements outlined in the relevant pages of our website (see above).<\/p>\n<p>Europe is not a Federal entity. Each Member State of the EU has its own rules on visa and residency. There is no such visa that allows applicants to stay in the Schengen area for longer than 90 days. Long-stay visas can only be obtained from one specific country and allow holders to stay for more than 90 days in the country issuing the visa\u00a0<u>only<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information check our\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero\/visa-faqs\/\">VISA FAQs<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Consulate General of Italy in Melbourne accepts applications for visas only from Victorian or Tasmanian residents. For more background information on visas to Italy click here. There are\u00a0only two\u00a0categories of visas processed at this Consulate General: SHORT \u2013 TERM SCHENGEN VISA (to stay from 1 to 90 days in the\u00a0Schengen area) &nbsp; LONG \u2013 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":119,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-763","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/763","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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/763\/revisions\/3394"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consmelbourne.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}