Elective Residence Visa in Italy

Using the checker

1. Enter who moves with you: the adults besides you (a spouse or partner, dependent parents) and the children.
2. Enter your monthly income before tax and the savings you can show.
3. Each route shows the amount it asks of your household and whether your figures meet it — by income, or by savings where the rules accept them.

The routes and how the amounts are worked out

• Elective Residence visa — Living in Italy on passive income (pensions, rents, investments) without working. Passive income of at least €31,000 a year (about €2,583 a month) — the consulates' figure; many add 20% for a spouse and 5% per child. The law sets no amount: each consulate applies its own practice, and some ask €31,000 for EACH adult. Work income does not count; housing in Italy is required.
• Digital Nomad / remote worker visa — Highly qualified remote work for employers or clients, including foreign ones. Annual income of at least 3 × the health-care exemption threshold — €24,790 a year (about €2,066 a month); decree of 29 February 2024. Many consulates and guides quote about €28,000 — keep a margin. Also 6 months' experience, health insurance and housing; family join by reunification.
• Investor visa (golden visa) — An investment or donation in Italy, approved by the Investor Visa Committee. €250,000 in an innovative startup, €500,000 in an Italian company, €2,000,000 in government bonds, or a €1,000,000 donation Held for 2 years, plus your own means for living in Italy.

Money is not the only requirement

Every route also asks for health insurance, a clean criminal record and documents proving the income, translated and legalised where required. A lawyer checks the whole file before you apply and helps with the residence permit after arrival.

Using the calculator

1. Choose the Schengen area or Turkey — Turkey counts its own 90 days separately.
2. Enter the entry and exit date of each trip in the last six months (add as many trips as you need).
3. Pick the day to count on, and — if you are planning one — the entry date and length of your next trip.

The figures update as you type: the days used and left on that day, any overstay in your trips, the last day you could stay on the next trip, and the earliest date a stay of the length you want fits.

How the 90/180 rule is counted

Visitors who do not need a visa for the Schengen area — British, American, Canadian and Australian citizens among them — may stay up to 90 days in any 180-day period. The period is rolling: for every day of your stay, look back over that day and the 179 days before it. The days you were present in any Schengen country within that window may not add up to more than 90.

• The day you enter and the day you leave both count as full days.
• All 29 Schengen countries count together — moving from Spain to France does not restart the count. Bulgaria and Romania have been full members since January 2025; Cyprus and Ireland are not in the Schengen area and apply their own rules.
• Days spent under a national long-stay visa or a residence permit of a Schengen country do not count towards the 90 days. Leave them out of the trips.
• Since 10 April 2026 the Entry/Exit System (EES) records every entry and exit electronically at all external borders, so an overstay is visible at the border even with a new passport. ETIAS, the travel authorisation for visa-free visitors, is not in operation yet and has no start date.

Turkey's own 90/180 rule

Turkey is not part of the Schengen area. Its law limits a stay on a visa or visa exemption to 90 days within 180 days, for all foreigners and across all their passports, and to stay longer you need a residence permit. The days are counted separately from Schengen; choose Turkey above — the calculator counts them the same rolling way. Some nationalities have shorter stays (Russian citizens 60 days) or a window counted from the first entry; check the rule for your passport.

Staying longer than 90 days

To stay longer you need a long-stay (national) visa or a residence permit of the country — a non-lucrative or retirement visa, a digital nomad visa, a golden visa or a work permit, depending on the country and your situation. A lawyer can tell you which route fits and prepare the application.

This calculator gives an estimate for planning. It does not cover the bilateral agreements some Schengen countries keep with individual nationalities (New Zealand, for example), the different rule for Brazilian passports (three months within six from the first entry) or limits printed on a short-stay visa; the border authorities decide on entry.

Using the calculator

1. Choose the regime: pensioner (7%), moving for work (impatriates) or the flat tax for wealthy new residents.
2. Say how many of the last 10 years you were tax resident in Italy — each regime is only for people who come from abroad.
3. Enter the yearly figures it asks for: the foreign pension and where you will live; or the salary in Italy; or your income from abroad and the family members you add.

The result shows the ordinary tax, the tax under the regime and the difference a year.

The 7% regime for foreign pensioners

Under article 24-ter of the Income Tax Code, a person receiving a pension from abroad who moves to a town of up to 30,000 inhabitants in Sicily, Calabria, Sardinia, Campania, Basilicata, Abruzzo, Molise or Puglia — or to one of the listed earthquake-area towns of central Italy — pays 7% on all foreign income for 10 years, instead of income tax at 23–43%. You must not have been tax resident in Italy in the 5 previous years, and you must come from a country that exchanges tax information with Italy.

The impatriate regime

Workers who move to Italy after 3 years abroad, are highly qualified and stay at least 4 years pay income tax on only half of their income from work in Italy (40% with a child under 18), up to €600,000 a year, for 5 years.

The flat tax for new residents

Article 24-bis lets a new resident pay a flat €300,000 a year on all foreign income (for moves from 2026; €200,000 for moves from August 2024), plus €50,000 for each family member included, for up to 15 years. You must not have been tax resident in Italy in 9 of the last 10 years.

The ordinary side uses the 2026 scale of 23%, 33% and 43%, the employee or pension deduction, and about 2% of regional and municipal surcharges (they vary by place). From 2027 these rules move to the new Income Tax Code with new article numbers. A lawyer or tax adviser in Italy checks the conditions, the visa and how a treaty with your country treats your income before you move.