Documents Required

SELF-EMPLOYMENT
Entertainment industry personnel

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. Job contract with the original signature of the holder of the license to operate, or impresario or legal representative thereof, ensuring the self-employed person compensation higher then the minimum level foreseen by the law for exemption from participation in health services contributions (€8,400)
5. Appropriate professional documentation, issued by government organisations and validated by the Italian Consular Authority, certifying the legal right of the foreign body to issue the certification
6. Certification of the firm's enrolment in the Business Registry
7. Copy of the latest balance sheet filed at the Business Registry (limited companies) or the latest income declaration (firms made up of individual persons), from which it can be ascertained that earnings or income are sufficient to guarantee compensation of the applicant (see point 4 above)
8. 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
9. Copy of the declaration of responsibility, already sent by the Italian contract provider (or by legal representative thereof) to the competent Labour Inspection Service of the Italian DPL (Provincial Labour Office) indicating that, in virtue of the contract stipulated, the applicant will not be employed as a subordinate worker
10. “Nulla osta” (entry clearance) issued no more than 90 days earlier by the competent Italian Questura (Police Commissary)
11. Personal bank account statement of the last one year

PLEASE NOTE:

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