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Who gets told about your Italian case

Avv. Massimo Romano · updated 18/08/2026

Who gets told about your Italian case is decided by the provision below, by how the facts are qualified, and by what is done in the first weeks. Sentence, criminal record and right of residence follow from that. We answer on your own facts, at any hour, and you need not be in Italy.

Provision: Art. 36 Conv. Vienna 1963 sulle relazioni consolari
Checked 18/08/2026.

What this page covers

Whether Who gets told about your Italian case ends in a conviction, and with what sentence, depends on how the facts are qualified and on decisions taken in the first weeks — long before any trial.

Governing provision: Art. 36 Conv. Vienna 1963 sulle relazioni consolari

The questions that decide the outcome

  • Effect on your right to stay in Italy
  • Longer-term consequences
  • Your options
  • What to do now

What people ask us about this

  • Can I call my embassy from an Italian police station?
  • Will my Italian employer be told about the case?
  • Will my embassy be informed if I am arrested in Italy?

Avv. Massimo Romano — Italian criminal defence lawyer, Naples Bar no. 14553, admitted to plead before the Court of Cassation since 23 October 2015.

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