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How can I stay in Italy for more than 90 days?

How can I stay in Italy for more than 90 days?

Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 09:51 AM
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How can I stay in Italy for more than 90 days?

Hello everyone,
I lived in Italy last year for 3 months. I would like to go back for longer. I realize that I can only stay 90 out of 180 days. I thought I would ask if there any suggestions from experts. Thank you. This forum has really helped me.

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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 09:57 AM
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>> I realize that I can only stay 90 out of 180 days>How can I stay in Italy for more than 90 days?
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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 10:31 AM
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Get a job and a work permit or a student visa. Otherwise, you can't.
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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 10:36 AM
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Get married.
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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 10:49 AM
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Apply for a visa of some sort, if you qualify for one. Otherwise you are out of luck I think.
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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 10:50 AM
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It's interesting actually.

As a probably a respectable, white, middle class individual (presumptive) flying into an international airport, if caught overstaying you'll be deported and have considerable issues trying to re-enter the EU.

However, if you were say Afghan and blowing your life savings on a trip using death trap of rubber raft to cross from Tunis, then the EU would welcome you with open arms, not deport you but send you to Munich where you be clothed, housed, feed and housed.

Explains why the EU has issues with illegal immigration.
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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 10:52 AM
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Apply for a long stay visa.

http://www.esteri.it/mae/servizi/str...le_ing-ita.pdf
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It is very simple -- You don't !!!! unless you have a long term visit. But surely you knew that.
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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 11:43 AM
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These answers that "you can't" are BS -- to put it mildly -- with the exception of thursdaysd. If you have assets or sufficient income (sufficient in the eyes of Itaiian auhorities) + a clean criminal record + health insurance, you can live in Italy. If you want you can also go to school or look for employment, but there are many paths.

My biggest recommendation to you is that you not post on this forum if you are planning an extended stay in Italy. You will find a mountain of bitter, discouraging false information from people who don't live in Italy & never seriously looked into it, and won't admit it -- and why they do this isn't even known to them. They're that idiotic.

Good luck with your planning. Many people have extended stays in Italy. Don't be discouraged.
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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 11:47 AM
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You need to apply for a long term visa, that's all. There is no reason you can't do that. If you don't intend to work and can show enough funds/money and are a US or Canadian citizen, I don't see why you can't get one, but I don't know how selective they are. If you want to live there so much, you must know what their bureaucracy is like.
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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 12:17 PM
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There is normally an interview involved with consular officer when applying for long-term, non-working visa, and one question they will almost always ask is, why do you want to stay in Italy long-term? And they expect a serious answer, not just you like Italy and want to see more of it. It helps your application if you can show professional interest in Italy, such as a musician specialising in Italian music, artist, naturalist in Italian fauna etc. A good conversational knowledge of Italian will also help, though not essential.
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Stay in Vatican City?
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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 01:02 PM
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I love the fact that afghans and Syrians are clothed and not send back into the hands of the talibans or the shells in Alep.

I for once half agree with above on : Don't ask such questions on a forum.

You don't have a consulate in your country ? These guys are paid to answer you.

As for bitter and discouraging answers....
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Try to get an intern somewhere even if it might be a big difficult. otherwise just spend a weekend in Switzerland or France and come back!
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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 01:14 PM
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@bussa17 - please don't give such uninformed advice. The limit without a long stay visa is 90 days in 180. What you suggest is illegal.
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Old Sep 3rd, 2017, 01:26 PM
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zeppole/sandralist/massimop strikes again. If we are all so idiotic why do you keep returning???

>>How can I stay in Italy for more than 90 days?can't without a long term visa. Since the OP obviously knows about Schengen rules she most likely knows getting a visa is a roadblock
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Old Sep 4th, 2017, 07:28 AM
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Janis, to be fair, you made no mention of the possibility of a visa in your first response.
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Old Sep 4th, 2017, 09:00 AM
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Thanks for link to visa application, Thursdaysd.
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Not Italy but Spain:

Must have a certified record from the FBI of a clean criminal record.

Must show financial information

Must provide for health care

Then these documents must be translated into Spanish along with a visa application and other documentation requested from the Spanish Consulate.
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bussa17:

Try to get an intern somewhere even if it might be a big difficult. otherwise just spend a weekend in Switzerland or France and come back!

thursdaysd:

@bussa17 - please don't give such uninformed advice. The limit without a long stay visa is 90 days in 180. What you suggest is illegal.



Not only that, but the 90 day limit applies to the entire Schengen zone, which includes both Switzerland and France.
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