Every route we track for Italy, with the official source behind each one.
The elective residence visa is Italy's route for people who want to settle in the country and can pay for that life entirely out of income they already hold, without working.
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Italy's EU Blue Card, transposing the recast Directive (EU) 2021/1883, is a highly-qualified-employment residence permit requiring a valid work contract or binding job offer of at least 6 months.
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Italia Startup Visa (ISV) is the Italian government's national visa route, run by the ISV Committee within the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT, the successor to MISE, hence the mise.gov.it domain), for non-EU innovators who want to relocate to Italy to found an innovative startup as defined under th…
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Italian citizenship by descent is not a visa and not an immigration route: it is a declaratory procedure in which an Italian consulate recognises that you have been an Italian citizen since birth because the status passed down your bloodline.
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Italy's study visa is issued by the consulate with jurisdiction over the applicant's residence and comes in several distinct shapes on the same page: study-abroad students sent by a foreign university, students enrolling in a full Italian university programme, students independently attending an Italian language and…
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Italy's subordinate work visa (visto per lavoro subordinato), administered through Italian consular posts abroad under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, is a national long-stay visa for a foreign national taking up dependent employment in Italy.
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Italy's digital nomad and remote worker visa was established by the Interministerial Decree of 29 February 2024 (published 4 April 2024), under Article 27, paragraph 1(q-bis) and paragraph sexies.1 of Legislative Decree 286/1998.
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