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A&P provides full assistance with immigration services to Italy. We help EU and non-EU citizens coming to Italy for various reasons.
The service is aimed to grant the right endorsement in order to allow the applicant/individual to legally enter, stay and perform the declared activities in Italy.
Depending on the nationality and on the reasons of the stay, the applicant might require to obtain a visa or to submit a declaration of entry to the immigration authorities. Moreover, the applicant can require to apply for a resident permit to legally stay in Italy.
A&P can support you in making your stay legal, assisting you to fulfill all the correct requirements and comply with the law in force.
A dedicated team of immigration consultants will support you in all phases of the process. In fact, A&P will provide ad-hoc consultancy and support in the preparation of the relevant documentation as well as monitor the application from start to finish.
Contact A&P before your arrival to Italy:
Once the document has been duly collected, A&P will inform you on the mandatory fulfillments to be completed upon your arrival to Italy.
For Corporate groups temporarily transferring their non-EU nationals, employed within a company of the group, to their Italian territory.
For third-Country highly skilled workers to work in Italy on an employement contract.
For highly secialized employees, foreigners performing specific activities, or workers on peculiar work relations.
For workers invited by Italian companies to attend meetings, meet customers or providers, visit plants etc. without physically working.
For any person who may wish to travel to Italy for tourism purposes.
For students or recent graduates who have been offered a training project by an Italian company.
For foreign enterpreneurs wishing to open an innovative startup in Italy, tied with innovation and technology.
For non-EU citizens choosing to invest in strategic assets for Italy's economy and society.
For relatives who want to come to Italy to join the family member who is already living and working legally in Italy.
For foreigners who want to live in Italy without an employment contract and have financial means.
Get support in applying for an Italian Residence Permit.
This is intended to be the document issued to non-EU citizens in possession of the requisites (authorization and/or visa) to stay for long periods (over 90 days).
It is the endorsement required to foreign citizens allowed to remain in Italy on a mid-long term. It is issued by the local police. The application has to be submitted within 8 days from entrance into the Italian territory and foreseen also an appointment for fingerprinting as well as the final one for the collection.
PLEASE NOTE: in case of further renewals, fingerprinting is always a mandatory fulfillment.
To be legal on the Italian territory, each non-EU Citizen needs to always carry a valid resident permit, to avoid being banned from Italy.
It takes 3 – 6 months to get a residence permit (timescale may differ depending on the type of permit).
Register at the municipality of your residence.
If the duration of the stay exceeds 90 days, the Italian law currently in force provides that both EU citizens and non-EU citizens apply for registration at the Municipality of residence. Likewise, dependent family members must follow the same procedure.
It is the registration at the town hall of common residency.
It is mandatory for EU citizens staying longer than 90 days. In addition to that, it is highly suggested to non-EU citizens in order to allow them to actively participate to the Italian life.
To fulfill a mandatory requirement (EU citizens) and/or to have the possibility to be granted some important services.
Being a resident of an Italian town hall grants the foreigner the right to get a bank account at advantageous rates, get the ID card and have the possibility of purchasing a car and/or of converting or getting an Italian driving license, etc.
It takes 1 – 2 months to get registered at the town hall of residency (timescale may differ depending on the Town Hall).
Our immigration services to Italy also helps you register to the national health care system.
To foreigners, EU and non-EU citizens, registration with the National Health Service (S.S.N.) guarantees all the health care provided by our legal system and involves equal treatment with respect to Italian citizens.
Registering into the National Health Care system, grants foreign citizens the access to various services. The access is either for free or for the basic fee as the Italian citizens, such as:
EU and Non-EU citizens, under certain conditions (e.g. employee, self-employed, familiar members of employees or self-employed), and regularly registered on the Italian territory (either town hall registration for EU citizens and proper residence permit for non-EU citizens), are granted the enrollment to the National Health Care System. This allows them to get the whole health assistance foreseen from local legislation as per Italian citizens.
Registering into the National Health Care system takes 1 – 2 weeks.
Be covered by Italian Social Security.
Even though temporarily assigned to a foreign country, employees must be covered by social security. Since an assignment abroad involves two different countries, home and host, questions regarding applicable law and jurisdiction have to be answered.
Commonly speaking, the principle of territoriality applies. Therefore, the applicant must pay contributions where the work is carried out.
However, either multi- (such as EU Regulation 883/2004) or bilateral agreement in force between home country and Italy might breach this rule.
Payment of social contribution grants complementary, supplementary or ancillary coverage of the risks corresponding to the social security sectors.
Moreover, it guarantees to the data subjects, a minimum subsistence income. The income will be in relation to the economic and social context of the Member State concerned.
It takes 1 – 2 weeks to get covered by the Italian social security.
Get support in applying for an Italian Citizenship.
You can apply for the Italian Citizenship if you fall into one of the following cases below.
Underage children (even if adopted) of an Italian citizen get the Italian citizenship. In this case, the Italian Citizenship acquisition is automatically granted.
Likewise, minor children of parents who acquire or reacquire the Italian citizenship, can automatically get the Italian citizenship. However, there needs to be proofs that the children steadily and effectively live with them.
Foreign citizens who were born in Italy and are legally resident in the country, can acquire the Italian citizenship when they turn 18.
The descendants (children or grandchildren) of a person who was an Italian citizen by birth but lost or renounced to this nationality, can acquire it again if one of the following requirements applies:
A foreigner married to an Italian Citizen can apply for the Citizenship after two years of legal residence in Italy or, if resident abroad, after three years from the date of the marriage. The mentioned timing decreases if the couple has underage children.
Foreign citizens who have been legally resident on the Italian territory for an uninterrupted period of 10 years, can apply for their Italian Citizenship. In some cases, and also depending on the applicant’s nationality, this period can be reduced.
A&P has a team of expert professionals in many areas: labour law, social security, corporate taxes, individual taxes, immigration services to Italy and worldwide, relocation services.
A&P makes processes easier and quicker by using an international well-known tool, which helps in arranging phone conferences, as well as online presentations, with more actors taking part to them.
Up to 5 persons can attend the free phone call. All you have to do is just find the day that suits you most.
Our Mobility experts will do the rest!
With 20+ years of experience in the field and more than 1.500 inbound immigration cases carried out, A&P team of multilingual professionals will guide the assignee through every step of the Italian immigration process, making sure that this is carried out in a compliant and effective way.
Contact us and ask for a quotation. We will reply to let you know the feasibility of your request, requisites, timing and costs.
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