Updating Your Italian Residency
When you move into a new home in Italy, you must inform the local authorities that you have changed addresses and consequently update your Italian residency. Here is an overview of how to do this.
Italian law says that any foreigner who wants to stay in Italy permanently must register as a resident within three months of moving there.
Your municipality will need to be informed of your official address in Italy along with any changes made to that.
Fortunately, it is not too difficult to change your official address in Italy, and you might even be able to do it all online.
Why Is Registering a Change of Location Required?
How and where you can access different services in Italy depends on where you’re registered as a resident. For example, if you enroll in the Italian national healthcare system, you will be assigned a GP in the same area and registered with the local health authority that is closest to where you live.
In addition to this, you’ll normally have to deal with whichever civil registry office, tax office, department of motor vehicles, etc. is closest to your official address.
Therefore, it’s very important to register your new address even if you’re also moving within the same city.
If you aren’t a registered resident of the area where you live, you might not be able to park your vehicle for free or drive in some parts of the city. Additionally, you’ll want to make sure that all of your paperwork is in order and that official correspondence gets to the right address, particularly if you’re a foreign national in Italy dealing with immigration procedures.
How Can You Change Your Residency in Italy?
The good news is that things get much easier from this point on if you have already transferred your residency to Italy from abroad. You won’t have to normally prove again that you can support yourself or that you have health insurance.
