Here are the practical steps entailed: Step 1: Have your foreign-issued vaccine certificate in hand. If your certificate is in any language other than English, you will need to get it translated and notarized. Your certificate could either be a printed certificate, or vaccination card that was filled out by the person who gave you the two doses. Neither one needs to be original, but originals will not hurt. If you have both, take them.

Make sure your certificate or your vaccination card has the following critical pieces of information, otherwise you will not be able to convert the certificate: 1. Your name and date of birth as they appear on whatever form of identification you will take with you, be it a passport or an Italian ID card. 2. The brand of the vaccine you were vaccinated with.