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Italy · Visto per nomadi digitali e lavoratori da remoto · Formal dn visa · apply embassy · processing up to 120 days
The interministerial decree of 29 February 2024, published in Gazzetta Ufficiale no. 79 of 4 April 2024, is one entry route outside the annual work quotas. It covers two categories of non-EU highly qualified workers: a digital nomad, who is self-employed, and a remote worker, who is an employee or collaborator. EU, EEA and Swiss nationals do not use it. The consulate for the applicant's place of residence takes the application in person. There is no in-country visa route. The visa lasts up to one year. Within eight working days of arrival the holder asks the Questura for a permit marked "nomade digitale - lavoratore da remoto", issued for at most one year and renewable each year while the conditions last. The decree states no final year. Neither category needs a work clearance (nulla osta). The permit is not a general authorization to take employment with an Italian employer. The decree sets income at three times the minimum level for exemption from healthcare cost-sharing and does not print a euro amount. London, Bogota and other 2026 consular lists calculate that as €8,500 times 3, which is €25,500 a year, about €2,125 a month. That is the figure used here. New York still prints €24,789 and dates that sentence to 2024, which is three times the €8,263.31 healthcare-exemption limit. No later statute has replaced that limit. Show the figure the competent consulate publishes. New York will not count pensions, rents or investments. The decree's words are "lawful sources". A remote worker must also be paid at least the applicable Italian collective-agreement rate and not below the ISTAT salary measure the consulate cites. The consular pages do not turn that second test into one euro floor. Qualification is one of four paths: a degree or post-secondary qualification of at least three years, recognized where the consulate requires it; a regulated profession recognized in Italy before the application; five years of comparable professional experience; or, for ICT managers and specialists in ISCO-08 groups 133 and 25, three years of experience in the seven years before the application. The applicant also needs six months in the remote activity itself. Insurance must cover medical care and hospital treatment for the whole stay. New York requires at least €30,000, or $50,000, and Bogota requires at least €30,000. The decree states no minimum. Accommodation is a lease registered with the Agenzia delle Entrate, or proof of ownership, in the applicant's name and for the whole stay. New York rejects a hotel and a third party's offer of hospitality. A spouse who is not separated, and a child under 18, can be sponsored under the ordinary family-reunification rules after arrival. Adult children and parents are outside that list. Family reunification uses the 2026 social allowance of €7,101.12 a year, increased by half for each family member. That test sits below €25,500 for a spouse and several children, so no extra per-person amount applies. Some commentaries instead triple the family increments in the healthcare-exemption scale, about €34,086 with a spouse and about €1,549 more per child. None of the London, New York or Bogota checklists uses those figures. The national visa fee is €116 for the applicant and for each family member who needs a visa. At the European Central Bank rate of 8 October 2026, €1 = $1.1186, that is about $130. United States posts collect the quarterly consular rate. In the fourth quarter of 2026 the posted cashier amount for this fee is $133.60. The one-year residence permit is separate. The Turin police headquarters lists €40 for a permit of up to one year plus €30.46 for the electronic card. The postal kit also takes a €16 revenue stamp and €30 postage, about €116.46 in all. The permit does not set a tax rate. A tax resident is taxed on worldwide income. Tax residence is the greater part of the tax year, usually described as 183 days, and also domicile or civil residence. The optional impatriate regime in article 5 of Legislative Decree 209/2023 includes only 50 percent of Italian-source employment and professional income, up to €600,000, in the year of the move and the next four tax years. The included share falls to 40 percent if a minor child moves too, or is born or adopted during the regime. Ordinary income tax applies to the included part. The worker must not have been tax resident in Italy in the previous three tax years, six or seven if returning to the same employer or group, must stay at least four years, must work mainly in Italy, and must be highly qualified. The regime is not automatic with the visa. The flat-rate regime for self-employment is a separate option and is not covered here. London says the self-employed file may take up to 120 days and the employee file up to 30 days. Five years of legal residence is the ordinary route to EU long-term residence. Citizenship by residence for a non-EU national is ten years, discretionary, and requires B1 Italian. Dollar figures use €1 = $1.1186.
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Last verified Oct 9, 2026 Last changed Oct 10, 2026 Source
replaced the commercial source page with the decree; English and Italian names now name both categories Source
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