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Much of the office is also dedicated to the recognition of new Italian citizens by checking the blood lineage.
Although our services are mainly dedicated to our compatriots living abroad, a considerable amount of work originates from the many (over 3,000) requests for entry visas of foreign nationals, mostly American college students who apply for a semester of study in our country. As part of the services offered, the objective is to make possible the completion of some operations without physically going to the Consulate. Meanwhile, where the physical presence is still needed, it is possible to make an appointment and talk online with operators to be prepared and have in advance of all the data of interest (documents to submit, amount to pay, the estimated time needed to work the papers, etc.).
It should be emphasized that during the last decade, besides the traditional tasks have been added functions of a different nature which led to an inevitable increase in the number of the users of consular services: the influx of immigrants to our country that continues to grow, the new requirements arising from the law on voting abroad, the new mode of release of the e-passport. To this we must add the work in support of compatriots abroad, for both measures of protection and rescue in emergency situations, both in serious situations and in less conspicuous ones, sometimes simply psychological distress, but important too. We have then to consider the needs of the "new emigration": often with high levels of education, Italians with different prospects of mobility from previous generations.