Eighteen per cent of police officers in Ancona province have formally requested transfers to other postings, according to figures released by the local branch of the police union SAP after a meeting with Questore Cesare Capocasa. While the Interior Ministry has promised reinforcements for the immigration office and for patrol units in Senigallia, Fabriano and Osimo, union representatives say the measures leave the provincial capital and the town of Jesi critically under-resourced.
The immigration directorate at Ancona Questura currently has 44 officers and two community-policing agents—insufficient, the union argues, to keep two patrol cars and a 112 emergency desk operational while managing the province’s rising volume of residence-permit applications. Some shifts this week could field only a single patrol unit, leaving personnel to choose between street policing and counter-service duties.
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The backlog already affects foreign workers hired under the 2025 Flussi quotas; appointments for first-issue residence permits are being scheduled for May, two months longer than the statutory 60-day window. Local manufacturing firms dependent on seasonal Balkan labour warn that production lines risk idling if permits are not issued before crop-harvest peaks in March.
SAP is demanding a special allocation of officers in August, when the next class of police cadets graduates, and the creation of a dedicated administrative track for immigration processing to free frontline officers for policing tasks. In the interim, relocation managers should advise new hires bound for Ancona province to collect the postal-kit receipts needed for fiscal-code activation and health-system registration as early as possible.
The situation mirrors national trends: Interior-Ministry staffing data show a 9 % vacancy rate in immigration offices country-wide, complicating Italy’s efforts to expand legal labour-migration channels under the 2026-2028 Flussi decree.
The immigration directorate at Ancona Questura currently has 44 officers and two community-policing agents—insufficient, the union argues, to keep two patrol cars and a 112 emergency desk operational while managing the province’s rising volume of residence-permit applications. Some shifts this week could field only a single patrol unit, leaving personnel to choose between street policing and counter-service duties.
Employers scrambling to bring in seasonal staff need all the procedural shortcuts they can find. VisaHQ, an online visa and immigration platform, can shoulder much of the paperwork load by pre-checking applications, securing appointment slots and monitoring status updates for Italian residence permits—services that help reduce the risk of costly delays. Companies and workers can review the options at https://www.visahq.com/italy/.
The backlog already affects foreign workers hired under the 2025 Flussi quotas; appointments for first-issue residence permits are being scheduled for May, two months longer than the statutory 60-day window. Local manufacturing firms dependent on seasonal Balkan labour warn that production lines risk idling if permits are not issued before crop-harvest peaks in March.
SAP is demanding a special allocation of officers in August, when the next class of police cadets graduates, and the creation of a dedicated administrative track for immigration processing to free frontline officers for policing tasks. In the interim, relocation managers should advise new hires bound for Ancona province to collect the postal-kit receipts needed for fiscal-code activation and health-system registration as early as possible.
The situation mirrors national trends: Interior-Ministry staffing data show a 9 % vacancy rate in immigration offices country-wide, complicating Italy’s efforts to expand legal labour-migration channels under the 2026-2028 Flussi decree.
