Travel requirements to the UK are changing. This includes moving from physical immigration documents to eVisas and introducing Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) which is a digital permission to travel.
If you hold a UK visa and use a biometric residence permit or card to prove your immigration status, get access to your eVisa before you travel and make sure your passport details are up to date: www.gov.uk/eVisa
If you already have an eVisa, please tell the UK Government about the passport you intend to use for travel: www.gov.uk/update-uk-visas-immigration-account-details
If you do not need a visa to visit the UK for short stays of up to six months, you will need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). Check when you need an ETA to travel to the UK and apply: www.gov.uk/electronic-travel-authorisation
Starting from January 12, 2009, those who intend to travel to the United States using the Visa Waiver Program, which allows travel without a visa, must request an electronic travel authorization before boarding the means of transport to the United States.
To travel to the United States of America without the need for a visa, using the “Visa Waiver Program – Travel without Visa” program, the following passports are valid:
To use the “Visa Waiver Program” (Travel without visa) it is necessary to:
In the absence of one of the above requirements, it is necessary to request a visa.
We remind you that the passport must be valid: the expiration date must be after the planned date of return to Italy.
Failure to depart from the U.S. within 90 days may compromise the possibility of using the program again.
Minors can benefit from the Visa Waiver Program only if they have an individual passport, as neither their registration on their parents’ passport nor a laissez-passer is sufficient.
If the minor is registered in one of the parents’ passports, a visa will be required, regardless of the length of stay in the U.S.
The driver’s license is not valid as an expatriation document from Italy and is not valid as an identity document abroad.
All minors must have an individual passport.
It should be noted that the registration of a minor on the parent’s passport was valid until 06/26/2012. In fact, from this date, minors can travel in Europe and abroad only with an individual travel document. At the same time, parents’ passports with registrations of minor children remain valid for the holder only until the natural expiration of the document itself. Also, individual passports issued to minors before the date of entry into force of the new regulations (November 25, 2009), with a ten-year duration, are valid until their natural expiration date.
Minors are issued the new passport booklet with microchip, but the regulations provide that only from the age of 12 are fingerprints and digitalized signature acquired. On the booklets currently issued, on page 5, the personal data (also in English and French) of living parents are inserted.
For legal, religious, social, or other reasons, at the request of a parent or by order of the Judicial Authority, personal data may be omitted or deleted. For all accompaniers other than parents who are authorized by them (declaration of consent), mandatory registration (e.g., grandparents) on the booklet is not provided.
The minor can travel:
To request a passport for a minor child, the consent of both parents (married, cohabiting, separated, divorced, or natural parents) is required. They must sign the consent at the office where the documentation is submitted. In the absence of consent, a clearance from the guardianship judge must be obtained.
If one of the parents is unable to appear for the declaration, the applicant can attach a photocopy of the spouse’s document signed in original with a written declaration of consent for expatriation (pursuant to DPR 445 of 2000, Bassanini law).
N.B. We remind you that for the legalization of photos (passport, laissez-passer) the applicant must be present (even if a minor), otherwise the Officer cannot proceed as they must verify at the time that the photo portrays the person requesting it.
Every time a minor under 14 years of age travels abroad, that is, outside the national territory, not accompanied by one of the parents or by someone acting on their behalf, they need an accompanying declaration stating the name of the person or entity to whom the minor is entrusted, signed by the person exercising parental authority over the minor and endorsed by the competent authorities for issuing the passport.
N.B. On August 2, 2010, an explanatory circular was issued on the issues related to the expatriation of minors.
Therefore, every time a minor under 14 years of age is to travel abroad with an accompanier other than the parents, it will be necessary for the latter to sign the accompanying declaration, which will remain in the records of the police headquarters. The police will then issue a unified model, which the accompanier will present at the border along with the minor’s valid passport. We suggest, for any eventuality, to bring to the police headquarters, along with the accompanying declaration, a photocopy of the accompanier’s document, the parents’ documents, and the minor’s document.
To ensure greater individuality and security for minors, the regulations provide that both passports for minors and identity cards for minors have two different types of validity, in order to guarantee the updating of the photograph and the identification of the minor at border controls.
• Minor from 0 to 3 years: three-year validity
• Minor from 3 to 18 years: five-year validity
If you request a passport for a minor, the application for issuance will be signed by the parents. The bank transfer for the passport payment must be made in the name of the minor.
To travel to the U.S.A. and use the Visa Waiver Program, the minor must have only and exclusively a personal passport, that is, entry to the USA is not allowed with minors registered in the parents’ still valid passport.
For more details on documents and other useful information regarding the destination country, you can consult the relevant country’s page on the Viaggiare sicuri: website
