Travel document (passport)

Travel document valid for at least 3 months after the date of the visa expiry, issued not later than 10 years ago.
The passport must have at least two adjacent blank pages to affix the visa and for border stamps. It should be provided in original and in copies of page with personal data and of all pages with stamps and visas.

Each applicant, including minors, must have their own travel document. The Consulate will no longer accept visa applications for minors endorsed into their parents’ passports.

The expired/annulated passports (copies of page with personal data and all pages with stamps and visas+original shoul be provided (if applicable)). In case your surname was changed, additional supporting documents should be provided (for example: Marriage certificate or Certificate of change of name).

If an applicant has two valid international passports, including cases when an applicant has TWO CITIZENSHIPS, it is necessary to provide both passports when submitting documents (originals +copies (pages with personal data and all pages with stamps or visas).

If you are planning to use your valid ‘second’ passport to  trip to the third country (before Italy), when submitting documents it is required to provide an original and copies of pages with personal data and all pages with stamps or visas  of the ‘second’ passport as well as documents confirming the trip (air tickets reservation, hotel booking in the third country, etc.).

KINDLY NOTE

Some  Member States do not recognize non-biometric ordinary passports issued by the Russian Federation.
For details please click here (table on recognition of travel documents on European Commission’s website ).

There have been some cases of Russian tourists crossing Schengen borders using the automatic gates. In such cases, no border crossing stamp is affixed to the passport of the person involved. The situation is sometimes complicated by the fact that Russian citizens also use the same electronic border crossing system for entering and leaving the Russian Federation. In all such cases, the applicant must prove that they have travelled to Italy by presenting copies of their boarding passes, which will also allow us to calculate the number of days spent there. The applicant must request the cancellation of the visa that has been used but not stamped – and is therefore apparently unused – should the travel dates still be valid.