Guide - Entrance to Italy
Fast menu: skip navigation | summary
You are in: Guide in English > Entrance to Italy > Residence card
Read this page in:
|
|
|
|
|
|
1.3 RESIDENCE CARD
1.3.1 WHAT IT IS
Residence card has unlimited duration. A foreigner with a residence card may:
- enter the State territory without a visa;
- enter into any kind of legal activity;
- participate in public life and have access to services supplied by public administration, unless differently arranged.
[ top ]
1.3.2 RIGHTS
Residence card may be obtained by foreigner who:
- has lived regularly in Italy for at least 6 years;
- has a residence permit which allows an indeterminate number of renewals;
- proves the possession of sufficient income so as to be able to keep him/her self and family;
- is spouse or minor child or parent of Italian or European Union citizen.
Residence card cannot be issued - and if issued will be revoked - in case of conviction for serious offences. Appeal to TAR is admitted if issue of resident card is refused or revoked.
[ top ]