Police Certificate Italy - my experience

[ABertozzi 25]

Hi all,

 

I thought I'd share an alternative method of getting the Italian police certificate.

 

Instead of sending a letter to the addresses in Rome, I decided to go a different route. I had lived in the province of Bolzano, in South Tyrol, which is bilingual (German and Italian). Since my interview is going to be in Austria, I wanted to get around having to translate the Italian police certificate. Therefore, I decided to give it a try and contact the Procura in Bolzano directly via email, explaining what I needed, that I had lived there and have friends who could pick it up for me (and who could buy those official stamps you need in Italy, marca da bollo).

They just emailed me two forms, one for applying for the certificates (the Italian police certificate consists of two separate certificates) and the other was an authorization for having my friend pick them up. I sent them back as required, they then contacted me by email shortly afterwards, letting me know that they are ready and then my friend went to pick them up.

 

Unfortunately, only one of them was available in German, the other one not, but at least that is one less document to translate. Plus, I didn't have to worry about any letters with money in them arriving at the correct place etc.

 

I hope this can help someone in the future!