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Re-entry Visa — valid or recently expired Italian residence permit

ItalyShort stays and visits

Explore the five recorded questions, answers and sources for this pathway.

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For the relevant traveller scope, is a visa, electronic authorisation, visa on arrival or no advance visa normally required?

A re-entry visa is required: it is an atypical visa issued, where certain conditions are met, to a foreigner who already holds an Italian residence permit but is temporarily without it.

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  • The conditions for issue are not listed on the official page.

What short-visit purposes does this route cover?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the visit purposes this route covers.

What maximum stay, rolling-period rule, validity and entry rules apply?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the maximum stay, validity and entry rules.

What important funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance, onward-travel or passport evidence may be required?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the funds, accommodation, invitation, insurance, onward-travel and passport evidence.

Where/how is permission obtained when required, and under what important circumstances can a stay be extended or changed?

After entering Italy with a re-entry visa, the foreigner must within 8 days go directly to the Immigration Office of the Questura competent for the place of residence. The official source does not state where the re-entry visa is applied for or when a stay can be extended or changed.

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Limits of the record
  • Where and how the re-entry visa itself is applied for, and extension rules, are not stated.
  • https://vistoperitalia.esteri.it/infovisto?code=15_0_D
    Il cittadino straniero in possesso di un visto di reingresso, deve entro 8 giorni dal suo ingresso in Italia rivolgersi direttamente all’ufficio Immigrazione della Questura territorialmente competente del luogo dove risiede.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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