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Italian government wants to involve all parties that can be
positively affected by genuine foreign investments.
THE APPLICATION PROCESS
The entire procedure for obtaining an investor visa is
fully digitalized. Applicants should use the government’s
online platform at www.investorvisa.mise.gov.it. First, they
must register a personal account. The process starts off
by submitting a form and providing all of the supporting
documents required by the law.
Upon submission of the application, within one working
week, the secretariat of the Investor Visa for Italy Committee
carries out a formal check of the application and the
documentation provided. If the secretariat deems the
application complete and in line with the requirements,
the secretariat will forward it to the Investor Visa for Italy
Committee for its final evaluation. Should the application be
deemed incomplete due to inaccuracies or omissions that
are rectifiable, the secretariat will suspend the procedure
for 30 days and provide the applicant with a request for
supplementary documentation.
Outcomes will be negative and applications rejected if
the secretariat deems them unsatisfactory and not in
accordance with the criteria established by the law.
Once the application is forwarded to the committee, within
the following 30 days the committee communicates the
results of the assessment to the applicant, by granting or
denying him/her the certificate of impediment (nulla osta),
which is the document that will allow the applicant to get the
investor visa on his/her passport. During that 30-day period,
the Investor Visa for Italy Committee may also request
further information to complete the assessment and, if its
members deem it necessary, also request applicants to
make themselves available for a meeting in person or via
video conference in order to gather further information. The
Committee’s members shall make their own assessment
and the decision of granting the certificate of impediment
(nulla osta) is adopted with a majority vote in favour.
In cases of a negative outcome, that rejection does not
prevent applicants per se from filing a new application.
However, it shall include significant new elements to be
taken into consideration.
Reasons for denial include not providing the mandatory
elements, submitted certificates being found invalid, forged
or otherwise fraudulent.
In case of a positive outcome, applicants will be granted a
certificate of no impediment (nulla osta) and they will be
required to get their passports stamped with the visa at the
Italian embassy or consulate in their country of residency. As
mentioned, the Investor Visa for Italy Committee oversees
the evaluation of the applications and the investment
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