{"id":2105,"date":"2023-07-26T10:51:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T15:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/?page_id=2105"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:32:49","slug":"religious-reasons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero\/visti\/religious-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visa Applicants for\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">RELIGIOUS REASONS<\/span> (MORE THAN 90 DAYS) must book an appointment for a NATIONAL visa here: <a href=\"https:\/\/prenotami.esteri.it\/\">https:\/\/prenotami.esteri.it\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please see the checklists: <a href=\"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RELIGIOUS-VISA.pdf\">RELIGIOUS VISA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visa Application available here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/NATIONAL-VISA-APPLICATION-FORM-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NATIONAL VISA APPLICATION FORM 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please check the \u201c<strong>General information<\/strong>\u201d section to be informed about the amount of the VISA fee.<\/p>\n<p>The Office accepts <strong>only USPS Money Order<\/strong> payable to the Consulate General of Italy. Other forms of payment will be rejected.<\/p>\n<p>One return envelope per household is sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Processing can take up to\u00a0<strong>90 days<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"456\">Please note that <strong data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"282\">family members of a religious visa applicant<\/strong> (such as spouses, children, or dependents) <strong data-start=\"326\" data-end=\"363\">cannot apply for a religious visa<\/strong> unless they personally perform official religious functions within a recognized institution.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"691\">Family members who are <strong data-start=\"481\" data-end=\"524\">dependents or accompanying persons only<\/strong> must instead <strong data-start=\"538\" data-end=\"603\">apply for family reunification (<em data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"600\">ricongiungimento familiare<\/em>)<\/strong> through the <em data-start=\"616\" data-end=\"652\">Sportello Unico per l\u2019Immigrazione<\/em> (Unified Immigration Desk) in Italy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"835\">The family visa application may be submitted <strong data-start=\"738\" data-end=\"752\">only after<\/strong> the <em data-start=\"757\" data-end=\"769\">nulla osta<\/em> (authorization) has been <strong data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"832\">issued by the Italian authorities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"837\" data-end=\"1063\">For additional information on the <em data-start=\"871\" data-end=\"883\">nulla osta<\/em> and the family reunification process, please refer to the official website of the <em data-start=\"966\" data-end=\"990\">Ministero dell\u2019Interno<\/em> or contact the relevant <em data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1051\">Sportello Unico per l\u2019Immigrazione<\/em> in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visa Applicants for\u00a0RELIGIOUS REASONS (MORE THAN 90 DAYS) must book an appointment for a NATIONAL visa here: https:\/\/prenotami.esteri.it\/\u00a0 Please see the checklists: RELIGIOUS VISA Visa Application available here:\u00a0NATIONAL VISA APPLICATION FORM 2021 Please check the \u201cGeneral information\u201d section to be informed about the amount of the VISA fee. The Office accepts only USPS Money Order [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":279,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7564,"href":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2105\/revisions\/7564"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}