Digital nomad and remote worker visa
Open since 2024 to highly qualified remote workers and freelancers working for organisations outside Italy. It sits outside the quota system, which is what makes it useful.
Who it is for. Highly qualified remote employees and freelancers with a degree or substantial professional experience.
Worth knowing. The decree sets the requirement at three times the minimum level for exemption from healthcare charges, commonly stated as around €24,790. Consulates have in practice asked for between €25,500 and €28,000, so the higher figure is stored to avoid understating it. Requirements differ noticeably between consulates — read the checklist of the one you will apply at.
- Income required
- €28,000
- Savings required
- Not stated
- Investment required
- None
- Application fee
- €116
- Processing time
- 30–120 days
- Permission lasts
- 12 months
- Permanent residence
- After 5 years
- Citizenship
- After 10 years
a year
Renewable
Sources
Worth knowing. The decree sets the requirement at three times the minimum level for exemption from healthcare charges, commonly stated as around €24,790. Consulates have in practice asked for between €25,500 and €28,000, so the higher figure is stored to avoid understating it. Requirements differ noticeably between consulates — read the checklist of the one you will apply at.
Check this against
- Visto per l’Italia — visa categories and consular requirements (opens in a new tab)Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale · Foreign ministry
- Portale Immigrazione — permesso di soggiorno applications (opens in a new tab)Ministero dell’Interno · National immigration authority