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<ol><li>In 2015 the UN, in their '<em>Trends in International Migrant Stock: Migrants
by Destination and Origin'</em> report, estimated that 64,986 British people were
living in Italy.</li><li>As of October 2016 we have two permanent Consular Offices
in Rome and Milan. These offices are supported by a network of five Honorary Consuls
operating in Venice, Genoa, Catania (Sicily), Cagliari and Naples.</li><li>The processing
of passport renewal applications from Italy was transferred to the Regional Passport
Processing Centre in Paris in 2009<em>. </em>On 1 April 2011 an accord was signed
between FCO and the Home Office to transfer responsibility for overseas passports
to the Identity and Passport Service, now known as Her Majesty's Passport Office (HMPO).
The transition of application processing from the Regional Passport Processing Centre
in Paris to HMPO began in June 2013. This included all applications made from Italy.
This process concluded in March 2014. As part of this process, all records were transferred
to HMPO, and the FCO does not hold records of the numbers of passports issued overseas.</li><li>In
2015 we issued 1,261 emergency travel documents from our Consular offices in Italy.
83 of those emergency travel documents were issued because of expired passports.</li></ol>
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