🇮🇹 Visas & Immigration — Italy

Visa Details

Italy offers a startup visa for non-EU entrepreneurs who have an innovative startup validated by the Italia Startup Hub committee, granting a one-year self-employment visa renewable as a residence permit. The Italian digital nomad visa (introduced in 2024) allows remote workers employed by non-Italian companies to reside in Italy. Italy also has an investor visa (golden visa) programme requiring a minimum investment of €250,000 in an innovative startup, €500,000 in an Italian company, €1 million in a strategic project, or €2 million in government bonds. The flat-tax regime for new residents (imposta sostitutiva) offers a €100,000 annual lump-sum tax on worldwide income for qualifying individuals who transfer tax residence to Italy.