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Digital nomad / remote worker visa. A 2024 visa for skilled non-EU remote workers and freelancers working for clients or employers outside Italy.

Free · The law behind every answer · Checked Sep 27, 2026

Digital nomad / remote worker visa

A one-year residence permit, renewable, outside the annual decreto flussi work-visa quotas.

Who qualifies

Net income of at least about €28,000/year from remote work or freelance activity for clients outside Italy.
Decreto interministeriale 29 febbraio 2024 (attuazione Art. 27, D.Lgs 286/1998, come modificato da L. 25/2022)
A university degree or at least 6 months of relevant professional experience, and at least one year's existing remote-work relationship with the employer or clients.
Decreto interministeriale 29 febbraio 2024
Private health insurance and proof of accommodation in Italy.
Decreto interministeriale 29 febbraio 2024

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

Does it fit your family?

2 questions, from the program’s own rules.

Steady monthly income, from any source?

Not legal advice.

What it takes.

Income: At least $2,567 a month, steady and documented.
Time: 2–3 months for the visa decision; practice is still new and varies by consulate.
Cost: About $500–1,000 in visa fees, translations and insurance.
The hard part: Documenting a genuine, pre-existing remote-work relationship — this is not open to people simply arriving to freelance cold.

Dollar figures are converted from the local currency at the rate the program’s research used; the official figure is in the local currency.

Citizens by 2040.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

2027
First residence permit
1 year, renewable for 1 year at a time.
2028
Renew the permit
Filed before the old one lapses; renews for 1 year.
2029
Renew the permit
Filed before the old one lapses; renews for 1 year.
2030
Renew the permit
Filed before the old one lapses; renews for 1 year.
2031
Renew the permit
Filed before the old one lapses; renews for 1 year.
2032
Permanent residence
Five years holding a residence permit, an Italian A2 test (or an accepted certificate), income at least equal to the social allowance (assegno sociale), and suitable housing. Absences under 6 months in a row and 10 months in total over the five years do not break it.
2037
Apply for citizenship
With a language test.
2040
Citizenship
The decision usually takes 24–36 months.

Language: Italian at B1, shown by a certificate from an approved body (or an Italian school or university qualification).
Time away: Residence must be legal, continuous and unbroken, with registration at the town hall (anagrafe) throughout. Any period registered as living abroad, or struck off as untraceable, breaks the clock.
Two passports: Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.

A one-year permit renewed yearly while the conditions hold.
The 24–36 months is the legal maximum for applications filed after 20 December 2020; I found no official figure for actual average times.
Income: the Prefettura page gives a floor of €8,263.61 a year for a single applicant; it is not a field here but applies.
Elective-residence renewal length (commonly two years) is Questura practice, not confirmed from an official page today.
The flat-tax amount (€200,000 a year, possibly raised for new arrivals by the 2026 budget) was not re-checked; only its 15-year limit matters here.

The law behind these dates

Italian Embassy Pristina — Visa for digital nomads and remote workers · checked 2026-09-25
Polizia di Stato — Permesso di soggiorno UE per soggiornanti di lungo periodo · checked 2026-09-25
Ministero dell'Interno — Concessione della cittadinanza per residenza (art. 9, Law 91/1992) · checked 2026-09-25
Ministero dell'Interno — Law 91/1992, art. 11 (holding another citizenship) · checked 2026-09-25

Living there.

Time you must spend there: The program sets no minimum number of days. Renewal still expects it to be your home.
Tax: Makes you Italian tax resident past 183 days/year; may combine with the impatriate workers' tax regime (a partial income exemption for relocating skilled workers) subject to separate eligibility.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

Start today.

Apply at the Italian consulate for your address.Open ambchisinau.esteri.it ↗
Round up the papers.
- Proof of steady income: at least $2,567 a month
- Request your FBI Identity History Summary
- Health insurance that meets the program’s rules
- A lease or other proof of where you’ll live in Italy
- Get the codice fiscale (Italian tax code)

Or let us run it.

$900for your first year as a founding member. Then $399 a year, automatically.Standard first year: $1,200. Everyone renews at $399.One membership, the whole family. Accounts and activation included.

22 steps, from the first paper to the passport. You do 5 of them: send what we ask for, sign, and show up. We run the rest, and keep every permit renewed on time. Accounts and activation are included, whether you move now or keep the plan ready. Accounts depend on provider availability. Government, record and approved third-party charges are extra.

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