Italian Residency

To Buy a property in Italy you do not have to become an Italian resident.

If you are staying in the country for more than six months of the year it is compulsory to become an Italian resident.

What documents do you need to become an Italian resident?

You can apply for residency with these documents at the Registry Office / Anagrafe in your local comune.

1. Passport
2. Staying Permit / Permesso di Soggiorno (non EU) or Staying card Carta di Soggiorno (EU citizens)
3. Codice fiscale
4. You will have to state the reason of your permanent stay in Italy - E.G work

Getting your children into Italian school

By law the Italian school has to accept every minor child (under 18) even if he/she hasn't got all the necessary documentation needed to be enrolled. This is though a temporary enrolment that has to be followed by the regularization of all the following documents.

These are the requirements for a legal enrolment in an Italian school:

1. Birth certificate translated and approved by the Italian consulate in UK
2. Staying Permit (non EU) or Staying card (EU citizens) of children + parents
3. Proof of immunisation against hepatitis B, polio, diphtheria and tetanus
4. English school curriculum translated and approved by the Italian consulate in UK so that the school knows to which class the children belong to.
5. ID document (e.g. passport) + pictures
6. STATO DI FAMIGLIA certificate of family status which you can get from the registry office in your local comune but only if you have already got a residency or you are in the process of obtaining one; which means you have already requested residency.

If any of the documents needed are not ready at the moment of enrolment, the children are still enrolled in the school. The parents in this case have to present a written proof of intention to substitute the documents missing. This is temporary until all the documents are ready.
The documents that can be temporarily substitute by the proof of intention are those that can be verified in Italy.

The English school curriculum is therefore not included.

*Please do not rely on this information due to law changes.

External Links

For more information visit www.poliziadistato.it or www.stranieriinitalia.it