{"id":3547,"date":"2025-04-07T16:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/?page_id=3547"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:09:07","slug":"minors-0-to-11-years-of-age","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-italiano\/passaporti-e-carte-didentita\/passports\/minors-0-to-11-years-of-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Minors 0 to 11 Years of Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In order for the parents of the minor (or the guardians of parental authority) to request a passport on his\/her behalf, they must:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>have previously registered the birth of the child in Italy (for the procedure, please refer to the information in the <a href=\"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-italiano\/stato-civile\/register-divorce-decree\/\">CIVIL STATUS<\/a> section);<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>both parents must be present <\/strong>at the Consulate<strong> WITH THE MINOR CHILD<\/strong>,<strong> with a valid passport (Italian and\/or foreign); <\/strong>If the minor is not present, the parents must provide two passport-sized photographs, taken no more than 6 months prior, one of which must be certified using this <a href=\"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AUTENTICA-FOTO-MINORENNE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FORM<\/strong> <\/a>by either a Justice of the Peace, a General Practitioner, or a Police Officer, in accordance with the instructions provided in the form<strong>;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>to present the expired\/expiring passport of the minor or, in the case of issuing the first Italian passport, their Italian identity card, or their foreign passport<\/li>\n<li>complete and sign the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Passaporto-Domanda-rilascio-per-minori.pdf\">application form for minors<\/a><\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>present the <strong>Australian residency visa <\/strong>(Visa Entitlement Verification Online &#8211; VEVO -) or the Australian naturalization certificate with the Australian passport;<\/li>\n<li><strong>ONLY FOR CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS OLD: bring 1 photograph taken no more than 6 months ago<\/strong> (frontal, in color, with a white background, 3.5 x 4.0 cm);<\/li>\n<li>For the application fee please refer to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-italiano\/consular-fees\/\">Consular Fees<\/a> Payments can be made either via eftpos (debit card only) or in cash<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Subsequently, the acquisition of the photograph will take place (<strong>fingerprints and signatures<\/strong> of <strong>minors under the age of 12<\/strong> are <strong>NOT<\/strong> taken) and the printing and <strong>SAME DAY DELIVERY<\/strong> of the new passport.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTENTION: In the absence of one of the parents, the accompanying parent must also present the <a href=\"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Atto-di-assenso_2024_06_24.pdf\">consent form<\/a> completed and signed by the absent parent according to the procedures indicated on the consent form itself. This document must be submitted regardless of one&#8217;s marital status (married, cohabiting, separated, divorced, or biological parents).<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the event that it is not possible to obtain the consent of the other parent, the interested party is invited to contact us using the following <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.zohopublic.eu\/consolatogeneraleditaliaasyd\/form\/ServiziOfferti\/formperma\/QprKKdYDRsgGBDJiDbSXRohmTRJeBP4SDYWi3IkKjaY?zf_lang=en\">form<\/a><\/strong> (select the PASSPORT service and describe the situation in the MESSAGES field).<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In case of the death of one of the parents: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>if an Italian citizen, it is necessary to present the original death certificate, apostilled and translated according to the methods described <a href=\"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-italiano\/stato-civile\/registering-a-death\/\">here<\/a> (only if the death has not already been registered with the relevant municipality in Italy);<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>if a foreign citizen, it is necessary to present a copy of the death certificate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In order for the parents of the minor (or the guardians of parental authority) to request a passport on his\/her behalf, they must:\u00a0 have previously registered the birth of the child in Italy (for the procedure, please refer to the information in the CIVIL STATUS section); both parents must be present at the Consulate WITH [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":2244,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3547","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4572,"href":"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3547\/revisions\/4572"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssydney.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}