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The plan for Italy, from the inside
These are all 32 steps of the Italy journey, exactly as they appear in your personal plan — with the lead time and the costs next to them. Not a brochure: this is the file that feeds the platform. Pick another country below if you're heading elsewhere.
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- Steps
- 32
- Phases
- 5
- Official sources
- 59
- Only for your situation
- 8
Phase 1
5 steps
Orientation
Italy asks not a permit but an order: codice fiscale, home, residenza, tessera sanitaria — in that order, because each step is the ticket to the next. And before everything comes a choice that weighs this heavily nowhere else: which Italy — the North of the jobs or the South of the space.
- 1.1
Understand the system: the municipality is the gate
- Lead time
- reading step
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 1.2
Choose your Italy: the North or the South
- Lead time
- an evening of research, and the conversation about it
- Costs
- none
1 official source
- 1.3
Get a picture of what it's going to cost
- Lead time
- 1-2 hours with the calculator
- Costs
- none
- 1.4
Take the decision together
- Lead time
- no fixed one; take your time
- Costs
- none
- 1.6
Choose your target date
- Lead time
- five minutes, below
- Costs
- none
Phase 2
11 steps
Closing the Netherlands
The familiar list, with the most favourable pension rules on the whole site: the 1990 treaty assigns AOW and occupational pension exclusively to Italy, the country-of-residence factor is the lowest in Europe — and whoever moves to a small village in the South can pay 7% on everything for ten years.
- 2.1
Arrange your healthcare: the basic insurance stops on moving day
- Lead time
- start 2-3 months before departure; the CAK application takes ± 4 weeks
- Costs
- working people none; pensioners the CAK contribution
3 official sources
- 2.2
AOW and pension: everything to the state of residence — and perhaps to 7%
- Lead time
- an afternoon of finding out, and one conversation with a tax adviser
- Costs
- the tax adviser conversation
2 official sources
- 2.3
The tax wrap-up: the M form and the protective assessment
- Lead time
- the return comes after the emigration year; preparing can be done now
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 2.4
Stop the benefits and child benefit
- Lead time
- an hour, online
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 2.5
Deregister at the municipality
- Lead time
- possible from 5 days before departure, up to and including the day of departure
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 2.6
DigiD, bank and your vote: keep the lines with the Netherlands
- Lead time
- an afternoon
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 2.7
Documents: multilingual extracts, no apostille needed
- Lead time
- 1-2 weeks for requesting extracts
- Costs
- fees per extract
2 official sources
- 2.8
Partner comes along without a job of their own
- Lead time
- an evening together, then a few admin actions
- Costs
- none — the consequences are in the article
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 2.9
Living partly in the Netherlands: the eight-month rule
- Lead time
- one decision, before you commit to anything else
- Costs
- none
4 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 2.10
The house in the Netherlands: sell, let or keep
- Lead time
- one conversation with the mortgage lender and one with a tax adviser
- Costs
- advice hours; when letting, possibly an interest surcharge from the bank
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 2.11
Children who stay in the Netherlands: DUO, healthcare and the house
- Lead time
- an evening, and then one notification a year
- Costs
- none
1 official source
Only if this applies to you
Phase 3
3 steps
The move
Within the EU, moving is administratively nothing: no customs, no declaration. The drive itself is the item — a thousand to seventeen hundred kilometres with two mountain routes — and the car deserves a decision of its own, because the clocks of the Netherlands and Italy have to start in the right order.
- 3.1
Plan the drive: the Gotthard or the Brenner
- Lead time
- quotes 2-4 weeks ahead; driving yourself is always possible
- Costs
- see the cost indication
3 official sources
- 3.2
The car: start the clocks in the right order
- Lead time
- the sum an evening; the export only when Italy is ready
- Costs
- see the cost indication
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 3.3
The pet: EU passport, and the dog into the register
- Lead time
- vet visit 2-3 weeks before departure
- Costs
- vet check; registration ± € 28
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
Phase 4
6 steps
Registration in Italy
The chain is strict in order: codice fiscale → home with registered contract → residenza declaration → tessera sanitaria. The declaration itself is surprisingly quick — two working days, with retroactive legal effect — but then follows the residence check, and whoever breaks the order starts again.
- 4.1
The codice fiscale: arrange it from the Netherlands already
- Lead time
- via the embassy several weeks; in Italy a counter visit
- Costs
- free
2 official sources
- 4.2
Find your home — and register the contract
- Lead time
- count on weeks; the registration must be within 30 days
- Costs
- deposit and first month, see the cost indication
2 official sources
- 4.3
The residenza: two working days, and then the vigile comes
- Lead time
- registration 2 working days; residence check up to 45 days
- Costs
- free; the certificate ± € 17
2 official sources
- 4.4
The tessera sanitaria: register with the ASL
- Lead time
- registration a counter visit; the card comes by post
- Costs
- working people and S1 holders free
2 official sources
- 4.5
CIE and SPID: the digital key, in the right order
- Lead time
- CIE by appointment at the municipality; SPID directly after
- Costs
- CIE ± € 22; SPID free
2 official sources
- 4.6
Bank account: the conto di base is your right
- Lead time
- 1-2 weeks
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
Phase 5
7 steps
Arrival
You exist — now the systems turn. The car has the hardest clock (three months, and the Dutch refund watches along), the child allowance the slyest (it only comes once you first apply for an income assessment), and the rest is knowing the system: the ticket, the collective agreement, the waste tax that comes in your name.
- 5.1
Re-registering the car: three months, via one counter
- Lead time
- several weeks via an STA counter
- Costs
- ± € 500-700, see the cost indication
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 5.2
Work: the collective agreement is your minimum wage, INPS runs by itself
- Lead time
- reading step at the first contract
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 5.3
Healthcare in practice: the ticket and the classes
- Lead time
- reading step
- Costs
- see the text
2 official sources
- 5.4
Family: the child allowance only comes once you arrange the ISEE
- Lead time
- apply for the ISEE, then the application; together several weeks
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
Only if this applies to you
- 5.5
Tax: three brackets, and the surcharges of your place of residence
- Lead time
- reading step; the return comes largely pre-filled
- Costs
- none
2 official sources
- 5.6
Learn Italian: the CPIA is your neighbourhood school
- Lead time
- enrol at the CPIA of your province
- Costs
- almost free
1 official source
- 5.7
The small print: TARI, RAI, ZTL and your driving licence
- Lead time
- reading step, and two ten-minute notifications
- Costs
- see the text
2 official sources
8 of these steps aren't always there. They appear only when your answers call them up — a pet, a car, children staying behind. That's the difference between a plan and a checklist in which you have to work out yourself what applies.
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This is what one step of your plan looks like
Not a brochure but the real thing: this is one of the steps of the Italy journey, exactly as it appears in your personal step-by-step plan — with the deadlines, the counters and the sources.
Step 4.3 of your plan
The residenza: two working days, and then the vigile comes
- Lead time
- registration 2 working days; residence check up to 45 days
- Costs
- free; the certificate ± € 17
Make the dichiarazione di residenza at the anagrafe of your municipality (or online via the national ANPR portal — even your DigiD works there via the European link). Working people show the employment contract; non-active people show means — the guideline is the annual amount of the assegno sociale, about € 7,100 for a single person, by self-declaration — plus comprehensive health insurance (the S1 form counts; the blue EHIC card doesn't). The registration is complete within two working days, with legal effect from the date of declaration. After that the municipality has 45 days for the residence check: the vigile comes by unannounced. Put your name on the doorbell and the letterbox — and if no response from the municipality follows, the registration counts as tacitly confirmed.
This is step 4.3 of 32. The other 31 are ready for you — each with the same sources, the same counters and a planning that watches your dates.
And what you don't see here
This page shows the content. What a page can't show is the work the platform does for you afterwards:
- The clocks that start running the moment you begin, and a nudge at the moment something is asked of you — not earlier.
- Your documents in one place, with their expiry dates watched, so nothing lapses while you wait for something else.
- The ticking off, together with your partner on the same journey.
- The steps that drop out or appear based on your answers, so your plan holds only what really applies to you.
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