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ily’s data (name, surname, address and Italian
phone number) and forward it to the IOM office
in Rome;
The IOM office in Rome will call you as soon as
it receives your file from the IOM office or from
the Italian Embassies in the countries where
your family members reside and will ask you to
pay for the test. The cost is 230€ per person, to
be paid in Italy for all the persons who will undergo the test (including the family members in
your country of origin). The IOM staff in Rome
will contact you and provide you with all the
information you need to do the payment (bank
account, total amount etc.);
After the payment, you will be given an appointment in Rome or Milan for the DNA test. The test
(saliva sample) will be performed in front of IOM
officers, in order to ensure the identity of those
who take the test;
After the DNA sampling is done in Italy, your
family will be tested at the local IOM office in
their country of residence. In countries where
there are is no IOM office, the test will be carried
out at the Italian Embassy;
DNA samples will be compared at a genetics and
molecular biology laboratory in Rome;
The results of the DNA test will be communicated to you by IOM officers in Rome and subsequently forwarded to the Italian Embassy of
reference;
Once the biological relationship is verified, the
Italian Embassy will issue the VISA to your family.
In exceptional circumstances of proven financial
difficulties and objective impossibility to cover
the costs of the DNA test, which needs to be certified by protection or assistance organizations,
the cost of the DNA test for those who have been
granted international protection (refugee status
or subsidiary protection) may be covered, fully or
partially, by IOM.
Contact Information to IOM in Rome:
tel: 0644186 225/233/234 - fax: 064402533
e-mail: [email protected] - Internet: www.italy.iom.int
Facebook: www.facebook.com/OIMfamilyreunification
Contact Information to IOM
in countries of origin
IOM Dhaka (Bangladesh)
+880 2 55044811
IOM Yaoundé (Cameroon)
+237 22 20 32 78
IOM Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
+225 22 52 82 00
IOM Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
+251 11 661 10 96
IOM Accra (Ghana)
+233 302 74 29 30
IOM Nairobi (Kenya)
+254 20 422 10 00
IOM Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
+60 3 92 35 54 00
IOM Lagos (Nigeria)
+234 709 882 0688
IOM Islamabad (Pakistan)
+92 51 230 7841
IOM Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
+243 81 032 55 33
IOM Dakar (Senegal)
+221 33 869 62 00
IOM Khartoum (Sudan)
+249 156554 600
IOM Kampala (Uganda)
+256 414 423 66 22
IOM Lusaka (Zambia)
+260 1 25 67 01
Family
Reunification
Family Reunification is the right of families to
maintain or regain family unity, which is recognized, under the conditions provided for by the law,
to foreigners with a residence permit in Italy.
Who has the right to apply for Family Reunification and what are the requirements:
If you have one of the following residence permits,
you may apply for Family Reunification:
1. Working permit (self-employed or employed), or
permit for religious, family or study reasons, with a
minimum validity of one year. Family reunification
is allowed also for those holding a residence permit
for scientific research regardless of the duration of
the permit;
2. International protection (refugee status or subsidiary protection);
3. Long-term EU residence permit or
4. Residence permit for pending citizenship.
Who does Family Reunification involve:
Adult spouse, not legally separated;
� Unmarried minor children1, including those of your
spouse or born out of wedlock – with the consent of
the other parent;
� Dependent children over 18 – years of age, if, for objective reasons, they cannot provide for their own
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essential needs because of health reasons involving
total disability (100%) or
� Dependent parents, if there are no other children in
their country of origin, or parents that are over 65, if
there are no other children that can provide for them
for documented serious health problems.
What you need:
Accommodation (rental contract and certificate of
habitability);
� Minimum annual income from legitimate sources no
lower than the annual amount of the Social Allowance
increased by 50% of the amount of the Social Allowance for each family member to reunite and
� For Reunification with a parent who is over 65 your
parent must have health insurance or join the National Health Insurance Plan.
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If you have a residence permit for asylum or subsidiary protection, there are no income or accommodation
requirements.
What to do to obtain permission for Family Reunification:
First you must register at the website
https://nullaostalavoro.dlci.interno.it/Ministero
(telematic submission service);
� After the registration you can submit your application
for Family Reunification through the computerized
procedure at the Sportello Unico per l’Immigrazione
at the Prefecture of the district where you reside.
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DNA test - how and why:
Italian Embassies in charge of issuing visas may request
a DNA test to verify biological relationship2.
The DNA test may be necessary if:
you come from a country at war;
your family is located in a country other than its country of origin, after having escaped, and does not have
any documents;
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your country is not able to issue any valid documents, because there are no more offices able to
do so or
� you or your family have never had any identification documents.
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Since 2001, the International Organization for
Migration (IOM) has been collaborating with the
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in carrying out DNA tests for
Family Reunification purposes between foreign
citizens in Italy and members of their families in
their countries of origin or residence.
How it works
A DNA test may be required by the Italian Embassy
from the moment Family Reunification is authorized before a visa for Italy is issued.
The DNA test is at your own costs and is voluntary.
However in some cases the DNA test is the only
way to prove the family relationship and to facilitate the issuance of the visa for Family Reunification by the Italian Embassies.
If you agree to submit yourself and your family
to the DNA test for Family Reunification, your
family needs to go to the local IOM office to initiate the procedure and pay 35€ per person.
The IOM staff will collect all your and your fam-
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1 Minor age is required at the time the application for Family Reunification is submitted at the Sportello Unico per l’Immigrazione.
2 As provided for by Article 29, Paragraph 1 bis, of the Consolidated
Law on Immigration, if the family relationship cannot be proven with
certainty by certificates or attestations by the competent foreign
authorities, if there are no recognized authorities, or if there are
reasonable doubts as to the authenticity of the above mentioned
documents, the diplomatic or consular representatives shall issue
certificates, as provided for by Article 49 of the Decree of the President of the Republic No. 200 of 5 January 1967, on the basis of DNA
(deoxyribonucleic acid) tests, which are carried out at the expense
of the concerned party.