Your guide to landing in Italy
Land in Italy without
drowning in bureaucracy.
Permesso di soggiorno, codice fiscale, residenza, tessera sanitaria — in the right order, with every deadline, and the forms already filled in. Personalized to your nationality, visa, and city.
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A checklist built for your exact situation
Nationality, visa type, and city change everything. You get the steps that apply to you, in the right order.
Real deadlines, before you miss them
Miss the 8-working-day permesso window and you risk refusal. Approdo counts the days for you.
Official forms, already filled in
We pre-fill the codice fiscale request, residenza application and more from your details. Download and go.
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Moving to Italy by country
Official documents, explained
- Codice fiscale: what it is and how to get one
- Permesso di soggiorno: the 8-working-day rule
- Residenza in Italy: registering with your comune
- Tessera sanitaria: joining Italy's health service
- SPID: Italy's digital identity for foreigners
- Nulla osta: family reunification clearance
- Voltura, subentro or allaccio: putting utilities in your name
- Opening a bank account in Italy as a foreigner
- Health insurance for an Italian visa and permesso di soggiorno
- Sending money home from Italy
- Getting an Italian SIM card as a foreigner
- Decreto Flussi: Italy's work-entry quota, and how it actually works