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Italy's digital nomad visa, as Washington spells it out

Guides· · by NomadYou Guides

Expatica and others are recirculating Italy's digital nomad visa as if it were news. The programme is already open. What Washington's embassy actually published is a four-page checklist for people in its district — and that is worth reading carefully.

What the embassy published

The Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C. hosts a PDF titled Digital Nomad Visa / Remote Worker (file dated February 2026 on the server). It is a consular procedure sheet for non-EU citizens who intend to work remotely while living in Italy. It is not a new law, and it is not a launch.

Italy already has the category. The legal ground is Legislative Decree 286/1998, article 27, paragraph 1, letter q-bis (added by Law 25/2022), with the implementing Interministerial Decree of 29 February 2024. Our Italy page carries that basis and the live status. This PDF is how one US mission tells applicants what to bring.

Two tracks in one visa

The embassy splits the same visa into two labels:

Both need to be highly specialised under article 27-quater of Legislative Decree 286/1998: careers that require post-secondary degrees, or at least three years’ professional training or experience. The PDF lists four ways to prove that — a recognised degree (CIMEA or Declaration of Value), a licensed profession under Italian rules, five years’ professional experience with public-authority paperwork, or three years in ICT for executives and specialists.

Both also need six or more months’ prior work in the field, Italian accommodation in the applicant’s name for the whole visa period (a registered Contratto di Locazione ad Uso Abitativo for rentals), and travel medical insurance of at least €30,000. Passive income — Social Security, rents, stocks — does not count toward the income test.

The income figures the PDF gives

The embassy states the legal income test as three times the minimum necessary to pay healthcare taxes in Italy. It then writes, “At the time of this writing in 2024, the minimum legal income is no less than 24,789 euros (or the equivalent in USD) per year.” That is an annual floor, not a monthly one, and the PDF itself still dates the number to 2024 even though the file sits under a 2026 path.

Remote workers get a second floor on top: annual gross salary not less than €33,000, which the PDF points at ISTAT data to verify. That €33,000 line is for employees only. Freelancers on the digital-nomad track are held to the €24,789 healthcare multiple, not the salary floor.

We record the same €24,789 / €33,000 pair on the Italy page. The PDF does not publish a savings requirement.

After you land

A national visa is not the stay. Within eight working days of arrival you must apply at the Questura that covers your Italian address for a permesso di soggiorno. The embassy says that permesso is issued for one year and can be renewed locally if employment, lodging and insurance still hold. Family sponsorship — spouse and children under 18 only — starts at that Questura after you are in, not at the visa desk.

Fees are not fixed on the PDF. It sends you to the embassy’s own consular-fee page, and distinguishes the national visa fee (stays over 90 days) from the Schengen fee (90 days or less). Other Italian missions publish their own fee tables; New York is the one our Italy row points at for that reason.

Open, and mission-specific

This is a live visa. Nothing in the PDF is an announcement of a future programme. What it is: Washington’s list for people who prove residence in that consular district. The national front door for working out which mission is competent remains Visto per l’Italia, which prepares a file and submits nothing — you still hand it in at the mission, in person, by appointment.

If another Italian consulate in the US revises the income figure, or the healthcare multiple moves off €24,789, tell us.

The row behind this

Every figure this post relies on lives on a country page with its source and its confidence grade beside it. That is where it gets corrected, and where it stays current after the post stops being news.

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