{"id":3257,"date":"2016-06-21T12:39:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambhanoi.esteri.it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2016\/06\/il-portale-il-visto-per-l-italia-2\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:39:57","slug":"il-portale-il-visto-per-l-italia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambhanoi.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2016\/06\/il-portale-il-visto-per-l-italia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ITALY&#8217;S VISA WEB PORTAL WINS INNOVATION PRIZE AT SMAU FAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs&#8217; portal &#8220;Visa for Italy&#8221; has been awarded the Innovation Prize for excellence at the SMAU exhibition in Bologna, an international IT and office furniture fair hosted in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Visa for Italy&#8221;, which recorded over two million hits since it first began in April 2015, is the result of a cooperation between the Directorate General for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies &#8211; DGIT, and the Directorate General for Management and Information and Communications Technology- DGAI. It is currently available in Italian, English, Russian and Arabic ( the four most common languages used by people applying for a visa to Italy), and will soon be available in Chinese, too.<\/p>\n<p>Italy issues more than 2.5 million visas every year through its 160 embassies and consulates. The website has a user-friendly portal designed to provide visa-related information for foreigners wishing to visit Italy for tourism, business or other reasons. The portal sets out a few questions and provides a personalised response.<\/p>\n<p>The site provides information on both Schengen and Italian visas, but it also allows for the downloading of forms applicants need to fill in, so to streamline the process.<\/p>\n<p>On the link\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=K2L_xbpZYy4\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=K2L_xbpZYy4<\/a>\u00a0it is available a short tutorial describing how to handle with it and allowing an easier navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs&#8217; portal &#8220;Visa for Italy&#8221; has been awarded the Innovation Prize for excellence at the SMAU exhibition in Bologna, an international IT and office furniture fair hosted in. &#8220;Visa for Italy&#8221;, which recorded over two million hits since it first began in April 2015, is the result of a cooperation [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambhanoi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambhanoi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambhanoi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambhanoi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambhanoi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ambhanoi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambhanoi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambhanoi.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}