{"id":211,"date":"2023-04-03T19:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T02:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-italiano\/assistenza-ai-cittadini-allestero\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:28:49","slug":"assistenza-ai-cittadini-allestero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-italiano\/assistenza-ai-cittadini-allestero\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistance to citizens abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social assistance service is intended for Italian citizens who find themselves in a situation of poverty. Italian citizens can receive (exceptionally) financial or other help from the Consulate to overcome a temporary difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Requests for consular assistance (NOT IT assistance) must be sent to the address <a href=\"mailto:sanfrancisco.assistenza@esteri.it\">sanfrancisco.assistenza@esteri.it<\/a>, specifying any information which might be useful for the Consular Office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emergency Number &#8211; ONLY FOR ITALIAN CITIZENS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between 6pm and 10pm Pacific Time Monday through Friday, and from 8am to 10pm Pacific Time Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays\u00a0for\u00a0<strong>EMERGENCIES ONLY (<em>accidents, arrests, serious medical problems, etc.<\/em>)<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>1 (415) 999 0094<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between the hours of 10pm and 8am Pacific Time\u00a0please contact the emergency line of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome:\u00a0<strong>011 39 06 3691 2666<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Inquiries from foreign nationals and in any case inquiries for general information and\/or consular services (including appointment requests for passports, visas, etc.) received on the emergency hotline or the Consular Assistance Office mailbox will not be answered.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR LOSS OR THEFT OF AN ITALIAN PASSPORT<\/strong>, please see the &#8216;Emergency Travel Document&#8217; section of the Passports page.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit the website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/it\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/italiani-all-estero\/assistenzacittadiniestero\/\"><u>Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The social assistance service is intended for Italian citizens who find themselves in a situation of poverty. Italian citizens can receive (exceptionally) financial or other help from the Consulate to overcome a temporary difficulty. Requests for consular assistance (NOT IT assistance) must be sent to the address sanfrancisco.assistenza@esteri.it, specifying any information which might be useful [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":204,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211\/revisions\/5415"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}