At the Italian consulate they said that the father’s permission will be required for the child to leave for permanent residence. We have been divorced for a long time; he lives in another country. Does anyone have a ready sample text of such a permission in Russian?
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I also had my father’s permission — notarized. It wasn’t checked on entry, but the consulate required it to be included with the documents. The notary drafted the text himself; it’s the standard wording.
Thanks for the tips. Do I need to have an apostille attached to this permission if the father lives in another country, or is a notarization and a translation enough?
Consular certification is sufficient; an apostille isn’t mandatory. If you want an apostille, take the notarized copy to the Ministry of Justice (it’s the Ministry of Justice, not the MFC, that apostilles notarized documents), then have an accredited translator do the translation and submit everything to the Italian consulate. The route with an apostille and without one is essentially the same.
In my experience in the south — the consular stamp is accepted everywhere without an apostille. At the questura and at the ufficio immigrazione they accepted documents with consular certification; nobody asked for an apostille. An apostille just adds weeks of waiting, and for Italian officials it makes no difference — what matters to them is that there’s an official stamp.