Italian Embassy for Slovakia - Address / Phone Number

Italian Embassy in Slovakia

Address: Palisády 49, 811 06 Bratislava 1
City: Bratislava (Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +2 hours)
Tel.: (+421-2) 59 80 00 11
Fax: (+421-2) 54 41 32 02
Emergency tel.: +421 (0) 903 422 085

Working hours: Monday to Friday, 8.30 - 13.00, 13.45 - 17.00
Consular hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9.00 - 12.00, Tuesday 14.30 - 16.00

Consular services are furnished on an equal, impartial, efficient and transparent basis. Consulates ensure all co-nationals protection against the violation of their fundamental rights and the limitation or privation of their personal freedom. They also ensure emergency assistance; help in locating family members, inheritance procedures initiated abroad and for the repatriation of mortal remains.

The Italian Embassy in Bratislava provides the following services:

• Registry 
• Assistance 
• Citizenship 
• Military service 
• Electoral services 
• Pensions 
• Civil status 
• Study 
• Adoption
• Visas, etc. 

NOTE that the following consular services will be provided only with an appointment in advance, tel. 02-59800012:

• Passports
• Identity Cards
• Attorney

Italian citizens living in Italy are registered in the A.P.R. ‘Anagrafe della Popolazione Residente (Resident Population Registry) of an Italian municipality and must refer to this office for refer directly to that municipality for all registry-related procedures. Italian citizens living abroad are registered in the ‘Anagrafe degli Italiani Residenti all'Estero' A.I.R.E. (Registry of Italian nationals residing abroad) of their Italian municipality of origin, or where they most recently resident before expatriating. Those citizens must refer to the Consular Office of their place of residence abroad for all registry-related procedures. The Consulate acts as go-between for citizens residing abroad and the Italian municipality in which those citizens are registered.

If an Italian citizen finds himself/herself in an emergency situation (e.g. a tourist must depart from Norway and he/she has lost his/her passport or it was stolen) and there is no time to start the procedure for the issuing of a new passport, the Consular Office will issue a provisional travel document (ETD European Travel Document). The latter is valid only to return to Italy, to travel to the foreign country of residence or, as an exception, to travel to another destination.

The Embassy is closed on the following holidays:

• January 1 New Year 
• January 6 Epiphany 
• March/April Good Friday
• March/April Easter Monday 
• April 25 Liberation Italy 
• May 1 Labour Day 
• June 2 Italian Republic Day 
• July 5 Saints Cyril and Methodius 
• September 1 Feast of the Slovak Republic 
• December 25 Christmas 
• December 26 Santo Stefano