There is still not much information out there to help digital nomads apply for the new Italian visa. After years of speculation Italy finally launched a brand new digital nomad visa in April this year. It allows remote workers to stay in the country for up to a year.
It has only been available for a few months but some adventurous travellers are already taking advantage of the scheme. Chelsea Waite, originally from the US, started her own business in 2020 and has been working remotely ever since. After visiting Italy in 2017 for the first time, she knew where she wanted to live.
“When I found out this past April that the digital nomad visa had been launched, I was just so excited and I knew it was something I had to pursue and pursue aggressively,” she tells Euronews Travel. “I tried to do as much research as I could ..
. However, because this is such a new visa, there literally is not any information out there besides just stating that the visa exists.” Luckily, Chelsea found her way and is now one of the first people to have been granted the visa and she is now living in Milan.
Here she shares her journey and top tips on how to get . Navigating such a new visa process came with many hurdles. Chelsea puts her success down to perseverance and preparedness.
One area, she says, that can be notoriously hard in Italy is getting a rental contract- an essential piece of paperwork for the digital nomad visa application. Most people assume that you need a ‘codice fiscale’ .