Documents Required


SELF-EMPLOYMENT
Business persons, merchants, artisans

1. Visa application form
2. Two recent passport-style photographs
3. Passport or travel document valid for at least three months after visa expiry date
4. Statement describing the parameters of the economic resources required to carry out the said business, commercial or artisan activity, issued by the Chamber of Commerce authorised for the area in which the activity is to be carried out. These resources must not be less than the annual unemployment subsidy (€4,962.36).
5. Economic means in Italy sufficient to provide for the resources necessary as per the declaration in point 4 above
6. Availability of suitable lodgings to be proven according to one of the following means:
   1. rental lease or ownership deed
   2. declaration in keeping with articles 2 and 4 of Law no. 15 of 4.1.1968
   3. declaration in keeping with the above regulations by an Italian or foreign citizen legally residing in Italy of having made suitable lodgings available to the visa applicant that fulfil the minimum requirements foreseen by regional legislation for public housing
7. Proof of income earned during the preceding fiscal period in the country of residence, higher than the minimum level foreseen by the law for exemption from participation in health services contributions (€8,400)
8. “Nulla osta” (entry clearance) issued no more than 6 months earlier by the competent Italian Questura (Police Commissary
9. Personal bank account statement of the last one year

PLEASE NOTE:

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