ItalyItaly Golden Visa · Investor Visa for Italy

These family members can come with you, and each of them also needs a nulla osta: your spouse, if not legally separated and aged 18 or over; your unmarried minor children, including your spouse’s and those born outside marriage, with the consent of the other parent where there is one; adult children who depend on you because a total disability prevents them from providing for themselves; and dependent parents who have no other children in their country of origin, or parents over 65 whose other children cannot support them for serious, documented health reasons.

Legal basis: Consolidated Immigration Act, art. 26-bis, para. 8, and arts. 29-30 ↗

The nulla osta is valid for six months, during which you apply for the visa. The investor visa is issued for two years for the main applicant and for one year for family members. Once in Italy, you apply within eight working days for a two-year residence permit, renewable for three-year periods while the investment is maintained.

Legal basis: Consolidated Immigration Act, art. 26-bis, paras. 5-6; operating manual (2021) ↗

By law, the Committee must decide on a complete nulla osta application within 30 days, a term that is suspended if more documents are requested. In practice government delays can extend it, and the answer often arrives after two to three months. The rest depends on official timings such as the consular appointment, but the whole process is usually completed in four to five months.

Legal basis: Investor Visa for Italy operating manual (2021), procedure ↗

Not for the first step: the nulla osta is requested online through the Committee's platform. You then collect the visa at the Italian consulate of your place of residence and, within eight working days of entering Italy, you apply in person at the police headquarters (Questura) for the residence permit.

Legal basis: Investor Visa for Italy operating manual (2021) ↗

A scanned copy of your passport and your CV; proof that you own the funds for the investment and an official letter from the institution where they are deposited, following a template; legalized criminal record certificates from every country where you have lived for more than 12 consecutive months in the last ten years since the age of 18; a description of the investment; the consent of the recipients; and a declaration of commitment to the use of the funds. The Committee can ask for more documents, which suspends the 30-day term.

Legal basis: Consolidated Immigration Act, art. 26-bis, para. 1(b)-(c) ↗

The law requires you to prove both that the funds are available and that they come from a lawful source, and the Committee reviews that evidence before issuing the nulla osta. The documents depend on where the funds come from, such as a donation, the sale of assets, a business, an inheritance, a divorce settlement or a prize, and each one must show the date, the amount, who paid the funds and who received them. Your advisor prepares the file so that the origin of each amount is traceable.

Legal basis: Consolidated Immigration Act, art. 26-bis, para. 1(b) ↗

The investor visa rules do not set a minimum number of days in Italy; what they require is that the investment is maintained for the whole validity of the permit. Long-term residence and citizenship do have residence requirements of their own. An Orience advisor explains what fits your plans before you decide where to spend the year.

Legal basis: Consolidated Immigration Act, art. 26-bis ↗

The first permit lasts two years and each renewal three. Before it expires you ask the Committee for a new nulla osta, which checks that the investment is still in place, and then renew the permit at the Questura. Keep the proof of the investment up to date so that each renewal is straightforward.

Legal basis: Consolidated Immigration Act, art. 26-bis, para. 6 ↗

No. The residence permit and tax residence are separate matters: tax residence depends on where you actually live and keep your interests, not on holding a permit. Italy does offer new tax residents a flat tax of EUR 300,000 a year on foreign income, plus EUR 50,000 per family member, for up to fifteen years. Ask a tax advisor before you plan your stays.

Legal basis: Income Tax Code (Presidential Decree 917/1986), art. 24-bis ↗

A qualifying route designed by Orience with our partners in Italy, from EUR 250,000, that meets the investor visa requirements. We share the details, the partners and the documents with each family personally, never on this website, and an Orience advisor walks you through the structure before you decide.

Legal basis: Consolidated Immigration Act, art. 26-bis ↗

Yes. The Orience solution in Italy is designed to meet the official requirements of the program, set out in the law linked below, which is the route your family applies through. Your advisor explains how the solution fits the program before you commit to anything.

Legal basis: Consolidated Immigration Act, art. 26-bis ↗

Orience, a European firm with more than a decade of experience in citizenship and residency by investment, together with our local partners in Italy. Your advisor shares the details with each family personally.

The holding period and the exit conditions are set out in the program documentation that your advisor sends you before you decide. We do not publish them on this page, because they depend on the route you choose and on the rules in force when you apply. Go through that documentation with your advisor and with your own advisors.

You can, and the law does not require you to invest through Orience. Our solution is designed so that the investment and the investor visa fit together from the start, with the documents and the timing the program expects, and our team accompanies you from the first conversation to the permit and its renewals. Many families prefer one team responsible for the whole process.