How much income does the Digital Nomad Visa require?

$2,272 a month, with no savings requirement. A formula in law, so the amount moves when its base moves. The wording on the source is: "24789". Legal basis: Legislative Decree 286/1998 art. 27 para 1 lett. q-bis (added by Law 25/2022); Interministerial Decree 29 Feb 2024 art. 3.

Does the Digital Nomad Visa lead to permanent residence?

Direct pathway. PR after 5 years (art. 9 D.Lgs. 286/1998), citizenship after 10. Pathway confidence: high.

What does it cost to apply for the Digital Nomad Visa?

Not a fixed figure. The consulate states the fee “adjusts every three months — Jan. 1st, April 1st, July 1st, Oct. 1st” and is published on each mission’s own page, non-refundable, and in the United States payable only by cashier’s cheque or money order. The permesso di soggiorno applied for after arrival carries its own separate charges.

Where do you actually apply for the Digital Nomad Visa?

Visto per l’Italia (MAECI). Work out which mission is competent for you and prepare the application. It does not submit anything: the file is handed in at that consulate, in person and by appointment, and the fee is paid there in whatever form the mission accepts. Questura: permesso di soggiorno. Within 8 working days of arriving you must apply to the provincial police for the residence permit. This is the step that decides whether the visa was any use — the visa gets you in, the permesso is what lets you stay, and the clock starts the day you land. Portale Immigrazione: the postal kit. Most Questure take that application through a Poste Italiane “sportello amico” kit rather than over a counter. This is where the form is issued and where the application is tracked afterwards; which route your Questura uses is on its own page.

Italy Digital Nomad Visa: Income and Savings

Q: What does it cost to live in Italy?

$2,078 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Italy spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher.

The requirements

Programme status: Open, accepting applications
Minimum monthly income: $2,272 a month
Required savings: None
Annual total: $27,264
Initial duration: 1 year, renewable annually
Family allowed: Yes
Apply online: No, in person or by post

€24,789/year (~€2,066/month) = 3× healthcare-exemption minimum; employees also need ≥€33,000 gross salary.

How this figure is set: A formula in law, so the amount moves when its base moves. The wording on the source is: 24789. Formula: 3 x the minimum income level for exemption from healthcare co-payment (3 x 8,263.31 EUR = 24,789.93 EUR/yr, i.e. ~2,066 EUR/month). Employees ('remote workers') must also show gross salary >= 33,000 EUR.

Income confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Legislative Decree 286/1998 art. 27 para 1 lett. q-bis (added by Law 25/2022); Interministerial Decree 29 Feb 2024 art. 3.

Does this lead to permanent residence?

Direct pathway. PR after 5 years (art. 9 D.Lgs. 286/1998), citizenship after 10.

D.Lgs. 286/1998 art. 9, as published by the Polizia di Stato, the authority that issues it: the permesso di soggiorno UE per soggiornanti di lungo periodo requires five years' possession of a valid residence permit, income of at least the assegno sociale, and absences under six consecutive months and ten months across the five years. Excluded from the count are periods on diplomatic status and on a short-duration permit; the nomad permit is a one-year renewable residence permit, not a short-duration one, so it counts.

Pathway confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Rome sits at 41.90° N, 12.50° E.

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Time zone

UTC+2 Rome (Europe/Rome)

The country

Region: Europe · Southern Europe
Capital: Rome
Currency: EUR
Schengen area: Yes

Next door

2 of the 4 countries Italy shares a land border with are covered here.

SloveniaOpen$3,791 / mo
AustriaNo visa—

All of them are in the Schengen area, as Italy is. For a visitor that is one clock, not several: the 90 days in any 180 are spent across all of it.

What it costs to live there

$2,078 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Italy spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.

Rome: $1,871 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,023
Milan: $2,142 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,169

City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.

Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20
World Bank national accounts, reference year 2025: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL) and by twelve. This is what one resident spends in an average month with housing included, since national accounts count the imputed rent of owner-occupiers. It is an average over the whole population, not a visitor's budget, so a newly arrived remote worker renting at market rates will spend more - see the city figures for what that looks like.

Languages

Italian official
English widely spoken
French common in cities
Lombard limited

Shares of the population from Unicode CLDR: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the country, an eighth, or a fiftieth. It answers "will I be understood", not "how good is their English".

Where you apply from

Filed abroad, at an embassy or consulate of Italy, before you travel — and there is not one in every country.

The MAECI portal works out which mission is competent for you and prepares the file, but it submits nothing: the application is handed in at that consulate, in person and by appointment. The fee is not a fixed figure either - each mission publishes its own and it is adjusted quarterly.

Where you apply confidence: high · checked 2026-09-19
Read 2026-09-19 from the Visto per l'Italia portal this row cites in apply_steps (verified 2026-09-12), which states the file is handed in at the competent consulate in person. No separate list of missions is linked for Italy: the Visto per l'Italia portal above is itself the tool that works out which mission is competent for you, so a second link would add nothing.

Say where you are now and this names your country.

How to apply

Check you clear the requirements above — $2,272 a month is the figure this row records.
Gather what the official page asks for. Expect proof of income, a passport, health insurance and a criminal-record check as the common core.
Apply in this order — the ministry page above describes the permit, these are where it is submitted:
1. Visto per l’Italia (MAECI) ↗Work out which mission is competent for you and prepare the application. It does not submit anything: the file is handed in at that consulate, in person and by appointment, and the fee is paid there in whatever form the mission accepts.
2. Questura: permesso di soggiorno ↗Within 8 working days of arriving you must apply to the provincial police for the residence permit. This is the step that decides whether the visa was any use — the visa gets you in, the permesso is what lets you stay, and the clock starts the day you land.
3. Portale Immigrazione: the postal kit ↗Most Questure take that application through a Poste Italiane “sportello amico” kit rather than over a counter. This is where the form is issued and where the application is tracked afterwards; which route your Questura uses is on its own page.
Portals checked 2026-09-12
Checked 2026-09-12. The row carried the MAECI portal alone, which prepares an application and submits nothing — the file goes to a specific consulate, by appointment, and both the booking system and the fee vary by mission, so no single national URL can stand for that step. The part worth recording is what happens after: an Italian national visa is not a permit, and the permesso di soggiorno has to be applied for within 8 working days of arrival. Almost no nomad-visa guide carries that clock.
Pay the filing fee. Not a fixed figure. The consulate states the fee “adjusts every three months — Jan. 1st, April 1st, July 1st, Oct. 1st” and is published on each mission’s own page, non-refundable, and in the United States payable only by cashier’s cheque or money order. The permesso di soggiorno applied for after arrival carries its own separate charges.Consulate General of Italy, New York: visa fee ↗ · checked 2026-09-12
Sort out where you will stay for the first stretch. Airlines check this at the desk and will not board you without it, whatever your visa says —what counts as proof of accommodation.
Verify every figure on the official page before you spend money. Thresholds are set in local currency and move every year.

Visto per l'Italia portal ↗

Highly skilled only; 6 months prior remote work; consulate.

A starting point, not advice. Figures are converted to US dollars at open-market rates; official thresholds are set in local currency. Sources: official source ↗. Data checked 21 September 2026. Compiled by Junaid Qadir.