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The Pakistan document path
Since March 2023 Pakistan uses the apostille. The Italian Embassy in Islamabad now accepts only apostilled documents; it stopped consular legalization in November 2024. So your family's income and asset documents no longer need the old embassy stamp chain. Each document is issued in Pakistan, apostilled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), and translated into Italian. Then you take the full set to a DiSCo-approved CAF. This path is simpler than before — but it is new. Start early, and ignore older web pages that still tell Pakistani students to use consular legalization.
Next: Sign it in person at a DiSCo-affiliated CAF once you are in Italy. Its deadline comes after the application.
What the ISEE parificato measures
The is worked out from your family's 2024 income and the assets they held on 31 December 2024. To qualify you must stay at or below €28,339.88 ISEE and €61,608.48 ISPE.
You sign it in person at a DiSCo-approved by 10 December 2026 ( ). This deadline is hard — miss it and you are excluded, with no fix.
The apostille route
Pakistan joined the Hague Apostille Convention in 2023, and Italy accepts the apostille. So each document needs one apostille from Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs plus a certified Italian translation — no more embassy legalization. Kazakhstan documents use the .
- 1Get each document from the issuing office in Pakistan (below). Some documents must first be attested by another Pakistani body before MOFA will apostille them.
- 2Have each document apostilled by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), through apostille.mofa.gov.pk or a MOFA camp office (Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar or Quetta).
- 3Get a certified Italian translation of every apostilled document.
- 4Take the full set, in person, to a DiSCo-approved CAF in Lazio for the ISEE parificato.
The documents to gather
Each in Pakistani rupee’s language and Italian, apostilled where required. Amounts are stated in Pakistani rupee (PKR).
Family composition
The NADRA Family Registration Certificate (FRC). It lists every family member with name, relationship and date of birth. NADRA documents are apostilled directly by MOFA. If one parent is missing, add the divorce or death document of the other parent.
Housing
Either the property document for the family home (it must show the size in square metres), or the rental contract, with the monthly rent in rupees. Note: MOFA does not apostille raw land registry or sale-purchase papers. So ask your CAF and MOFA which property document they will accept before you pay for anything.
Income
For each working family member, income proof in rupees for the reference year. For salaried members, an employer salary certificate. For tax filers, an income or taxpayer certificate from the FBR (Federal Board of Revenue). FBR documents are verified by the FBR before MOFA apostilles them, so allow extra time.
Bank balance
A Pakistani bank statement, signed and stamped by the bank officer, showing the account balance in rupees on a day in December of the assets year, plus the yearly average if the bank can give it.
Student's Italian bank (if any)
If the student held an Italian account, its balance on 31 December of the assets year and the yearly average.
Use the apostille, not the old embassy route — and ignore stale instructions
Pakistan only switched to the apostille recently, and the Italian Embassy in Islamabad stopped consular legalization on 18 November 2024. Many university and agency pages still tell Pakistani students to legalize documents at the Italian Embassy, or to get a 'declaration of value' (dichiarazione di valore). That route is now closed and those pages are out of date. Before you spend money, confirm two things with your CAF: that they want each document apostilled by MOFA, and which exact documents they need for the ISEE parificato. If anything is unclear, the CAF or DiSCo Lazio is the office to ask.
Each document has its own Pakistani attestation chain — start early
An apostille is one stamp, but many documents must be attested by another Pakistani authority first. The FBR verifies its income certificates, the bank officer must stamp the bank papers, and NADRA issues the FRC that MOFA then attests directly. Collecting these papers, apostilling them at MOFA, and translating them into Italian takes weeks. Begin as soon as you decide to apply.
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The route is solid. Pakistan acceded to the Hague Apostille Convention (in force 9 March 2023), Italy did not object to that accession, and the Italian Embassy in Islamabad now accepts only apostilled Pakistani documents. So the apostille — not consular legalization — is the current, correct route. Less settled is the fine detail: the switch is recent, some Pakistani documents (such as land registry papers) are hard to apostille, and each document type has its own prior-attestation steps that can change. Confirm the exact document list, and the property-document question, with your CAF before you begin.
Sources
- HCCH status table, Convention of 5 October 1961 (Apostille) — Pakistan acceded 8 July 2022, in force 9 March 2023; the states that objected are Greece, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Austria, Poland, Czechia and Germany — Italy is not among them
- Italian Embassy Islamabad, public notice (November 2024) — from 18 November 2024 only apostilled Pakistani documents are accepted
- Italian Consulate General Karachi, notice (September 2025) on Pakistani students' documents — apostille plus Italian translation; declarations of value no longer issued
- Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs apostille portal (apostille.mofa.gov.pk) — attestation and apostille chain, including NADRA and FBR document rules
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice, ISEE parificato document list — Pakistan in the apostille group (Group B)
- Accademia di Brera 2026/27 foreign-income document list — apostille for Hague Convention countries; family composition, housing, income and bank documents
- Country path checked 13 July 2026.