You should lodge your application when you have all the required documents as detailed in the checklist: SPORT – SCHENGEN or NATIONAL VISA
- Residence: SOUTH AFRICA
- Length of stay: Up to 90 days
- Reason for stay: Sports competition
Documents and forms :
- Entry visa application form (View)
- recent passport-size photograph
- valid travel document whose expiry date is three months longer than that of the visa requested
- return ticket (or booking) or evidence that the applicant has their own means of transport
- proof that the applicant has sufficient means of subsistence as required by the Directive of the Ministry of the Interior dated 1st March 2000 (View)
- health insurance covering a minimum of €30,000 for emergency hospitalisation and repatriation expenses, valid throughout the Schengen area
- invitation letter from either CONI, the relevant Italian Sports Federation or the organising body that certifies the person concerned is attending the event and requests the issue of the visa
- proof that the applicant has accommodation in Italy: hotel booking, Declaration of hospitality, declaration of payment of accommodation costs by the hosting Federation or Sport discipline etc. (View)
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PLEASE NOTE
Citizens of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine need to provide full names of mother and father and it must result from a birth certificate or Consular declaration.
THE INFORMATION OUTLINED ABOVE MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE. NO LIABILITY CAN BE ACCEPTED FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH CHANGES.
THIS CONSULAR ADMINISTRATION HAS FULL AUTHORITY TO EVALUATE AND REQUEST ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION, IF DEEMED NECESSARY, IN ADDITION TO WHAT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED. FURTHERMORE, THE APPLICANT, IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT SUBMITTING ALL THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION, DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ISSUANCE OF ANY PARTICULAR VISA.