The File
DAM Notiou Tomea, Peiraios & Nison
Residence permit directorate · Αγίου Διονυσίου 5, 185 45 Πειραιάς
The residence permit authority for Glyfada, Alimos and Elliniko-Argyroupoli. Not for Voula or Vouliagmeni, which are administered from Pallini.
- Full name
- Διεύθυνση Αλλοδαπών & Μετανάστευσης Νοτίου Τομέα, Πειραιώς & Νήσων Part of the Decentralised Administration of Attica, which still runs four such directorates.
- Address
- Αγίου Διονυσίου 5, 185 45 Πειραιάς
- Serves
- Glyfada, Alimos, Elliniko-Argyroupoli And NOT Vari, Voula or Vouliagmeni — those go to Pallini. See the separate file.
- Telephone
- 210 414 1610 (director); 210 414 1616 (head of residence permits A΄)
- dam_dattip@attica.gr; grammateia-dampirea@attica.gr for the secretariat and investor biometrics
- Public hours
- Permit delivery and biometrics Monday to Thursday 09:00 to 14:00, by appointment; information point Monday to Thursday 10:00 to 13:00 walk-in; protocol office every working day 07:30 to 15:30 From the Decentralised Administration’s hours page, last modified 3 July 2026. We are confident the page says this; we have not verified by telephone that it holds in practice. Lawyers enter freely on a valid bar-association identity card.
- A local closure most calendars miss
- 12 December Saint Spyridon, patron of Piraeus. This office only. There is also a 13:00 close on 24 and 31 December across the network.
- Biometrics
- You cannot book them The service summons you. Bring the original passport, four 4×6 cm photographs plus the image on a CD, and a €16 e-paravolo under code 2119.
The Decentralised Administration of Attica still issues residence permits — the responsibility did not transfer wholesale to the Ministry of Migration and Asylum, contrary to a common assumption. It runs four directorates and issued 22,134 initial permits and 60,527 renewals in 2025. Investor permits are the exception and sit with the Ministry.
How filing actually works in 2026
Initial grant, renewal and re-issue are electronic only, through the Ministry’s applications portal. The applicant can file personally, or an authorised lawyer or a first-degree relative can file for them. Case tracking is on a separate government system, and the directorates are explicitly not competent for platform problems — those go to the Ministry’s technical support address.
Delivery appointments are booked by citizens through the immigration portal and by lawyers through the bar associations’ own portal. Biometrics cannot be booked at all: you are summoned.
Two traps worth knowing
There are two live URLs for the same electronic service, and the older one is still linked from several government pages. And "DAM Athinon B΄" no longer exists — it is now the Central Sector and West Attica directorate, although its email address still carries the old name.
If your address is in Vari, Voula or Vouliagmeni, this is not your office. If you are applying on an investment, it is not your office either.
Sources
- Decentralised Administration of Attica: the Southern Sector, Piraeus and Islands migration directorate
- Decentralised Administration of Attica: public reception hours
- Ministry of Migration and Asylum: which authority is competent for which municipality
- Ministry of Migration and Asylum: electronic applications
