{"id":53,"date":"2015-01-28T04:26:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T04:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2015-04-03T12:54:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:54:16","slug":"the-italian-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"The Italian Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/taylor-visa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55\" src=\"http:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/taylor-visa-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"At the Italian consulate to apply for the long-term visa.\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/taylor-visa-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/taylor-visa-1024x978.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/taylor-visa.jpg 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the Italian consulate to apply for the long-term visa.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most tourists don&#8217;t need a visa to visit Italy for a short period of time.\u00a0 However, if you are going to be there for almost 2 years, a visa is required.\u00a0 Italy is a little different on this score.\u00a0 Most countries let you send them your passport and they will send it back with a visa.\u00a0 Italy requires that you show up at a consulate, in person.\u00a0 There are only 2 Italian consulates in the U.S.:\u00a0 New York City and Chicago.\u00a0 Any missionary going to Italy must report, in person, to one of these locations to obtain the required visa.<\/p>\n<p>We were there today, so there is another item checked off of the checklist!\u00a0 We are lucky to live in Illinois where a visit to the consulate is just a day trip in the car.\u00a0 Missionaries from Utah and other places have to fly to Chicago for their visa appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Most tourists don&#8217;t need a visa to visit Italy for a short period of time.\u00a0 However, if you are going to be there for almost 2 years, a visa is required.\u00a0 Italy is a little different on this score.\u00a0 Most countries let you send them your passport and they will send it back with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-preparing-to-enter-the-mtc","7":"entry","8":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorgarrett.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}