Soggiornante di Lungo Periodo UE

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Well, folks, it finally happened. The loooong saga of obtaining our long term Permit to Stay, good for more than a year is at an end. If you’ve been reading this a while you’ll know how long we have been working towards getting this Permesso. This one is good for ten years. I’ll probably be dead by then.

A person is allowed to apply for this after five years of residency. We have been here almost nine years. The reason we are late in getting this was mainly due to Covid. We applied three years ago but we didn’t have all our paperwork. Then we applied again in March 2022. We were told we needed additional documents which we provided to them in July 2022. So today, ten months later we finally got the cards. We, of course we’re not sure it WOULD actually be a long term card. When Luther looked at the date (he got his card before me) he told me it expired 2032. I was stupidly happy.

It is finally the end of the annual rigamarol of renewing, paying, getting to see the Questura for fingerprints and then waiting months for the cards. Meanwhile our old cards were expired meaning we always had to worry about traveling on them. As of today we are finished with this. Such a relief. I wanted all my friends here to know the end of the story.

25 thoughts on “Soggiornante di Lungo Periodo UE”

  1. Nancy Hampton Post author

    Hi Sara,
    Yes the language A2 certificate is a requirement. And there are a lot of things not listed on the polizia site that are required. Send an email to me and I will send a list. It takes a while to get it all done. My email is listed on the Contact link at the top of this site.

  2. Sara Olofson

    Hello Nancy! We’ve been following your long term permesso quest. Congratulations!! It seemed like so much work and frustration but it all ended well. We have received our 5th annual permesso di soggiorno and we are hoping to apply now for the long term permesso. I don’t see a language requirement on the police website. So, we have the same question as cwandlessf468c61d78 from a couple of days ago. Did you have to do a language test?

  3. cwandlessf468c61d78

    HI Nancy, I see this great news happened a while ago, but in Italy we ride our highs as long as possible- so congratulations ancora!!! A question: The language exam you took for the Permanent Residency Card- which exam exactly did you take, how did you prepare, and how did you feel the difficulty level was? Many thanks for sharing your many experiences!

  8. Dotti Harr

    Yay! I love your tales! I live through them!👏🏽👏🏽 Congratulazioni a te e Luther!🥂

  9. Valerie

    How wonderful! congratulations! May I ask what type of visa did you originally have when you entered the country? Was it a work related visa, an elective residency visa, etc ? Again…savor this moment of success…cheers! 🍷 Valerie

  10. Leslee

    Nancy, your card contains a lot of personal information. Perhaps you should cover numbers etc. Bad guys are on the internet. Congratulations.

  13. Jane

    Hi Nancy, congratulations! What documents beyond the ones we need for the yearly permesso renewal are needed?

  18. Catherine Rowley

    What a relief – your days will be lighter!! Congratulations – you MUST celebrate; ‘pazienza’ pays off!!

  20. Karen

    Congratulations, Nancy and Luther!!! It was worth all of the rigamarole for 9 years, to jump through the bureaucratic hoops. And now you’re good for ten years!!!! Fantastic! Woo hoo! I hope you have a celebratory dinner or drink planned.

  21. Julie Wade

    Congratulations Nancy this is huuuge must feel like winning the lottery! After all their talk that you were not eligible you showed how wrong they were. Gives the rest of us so much confidence, I will be applying next year.
    Enjoy the weekend and celebrate.

  22. Lindsay Dennison

    Well done ! perseverance and dogged determination clearly the name of the game.
    Ten years ? God willing you’ll still be posting with considerable wit and verve.

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