About us: who runs the site and how we check facts

Every article, tool and catalogue is authored by permesso.love editorial team. It is the collective byline of the project, not one person's pen name: the site runs anonymously, with no accounts or sign-up, and we do not publish the names of the people involved. So the article byline and the structured data name the project itself as the author, not an invented "expert".

The project is not affiliated with any Italian authority, consulate, questura or visa centre, sells no services and does not file documents on your behalf. It is free to use and needs no sign-up.

Requirements, deadlines, amounts and document names come only from primary sources: the text of the law on normattiva.it and in the Gazzetta Ufficiale, the pages of the Italian Foreign Ministry and consulates (esteri.it), the Interior Ministry (interno.gov.it), the Polizia di Stato and questure (poliziadistato.it), the Portale Immigrazione, Agenzia delle Entrate and INPS, and for EU rules eur-lex.europa.eu.

Links go straight to the page or article of law the fact comes from. We never present private sites, agencies or forums as a source of rules: where they describe practice, they are named as plain text.

When the official text is silent or contradicts practice, we say so - "the law does not cover this", "the consulate site says otherwise" - rather than picking the convenient version.

The second source is an anonymised archive of open chats of Russian-speaking emigrants in Italy: hundreds of thousands of messages about visas, questure, taxes and daily life. It gives what the law does not: how long a given questura really takes, what the consulate asks, where people most often go wrong.

• Messages are paraphrased, with no names or details that could identify a person.
• Figures like "23 questions and 86 answers in 2 chats" are a direct count in the archive, with the period it covers.
• Experience is always marked as experience ("per the community", "the chats report") and never mixed with the official requirements. When experience and the rule diverge, the rule wins.

"Updated" under an article is the date its text was last edited, not an automatic build stamp. When there is no date, we show none. A line such as "checked 30.09.2026" or "verified against normattiva on ..." next to a fact is the day we reopened the primary source and compared the text with it.

The knowledge base currently has 172 pages; 172 of them were edited in the last 90 days.

There is no single "every N months" schedule per article - it would be dishonest to promise one. Pages are re-read for three reasons:

• a rule changes: a new law or decree in the Gazzetta Ufficiale, an Interior Ministry circular, a new consulate page - then every page that relies on it is fixed;
• new reports in the chats contradict what a page says;
• a monthly pass over search data shows which pages people open most - those are re-read first.

Deadlines, thresholds and amounts change often, so they carry a check date. Before you file, verify them on the official site the same day.

Found an inaccuracy, an outdated figure or a broken link - write via the form on the contact page. Name the page and, if you have one, a link to the official source. We check the report against the primary source, fix the text in Russian and English and refresh the page date.

Major changes and new sections go into the "What's new" log, which also lists recently corrected articles with their dates automatically. That is our corrections log.

• Not legal advice. We explain the procedure but do not assess your case: for a refusal, a dispute with the questura or a court you need an avvocato, for taxes a commercialista.
• Not an official site and not an intermediary: we do not book consulate or questura appointments and sell no services.
• Not a guarantee of any outcome: the consulate, questura and prefettura decide, and practice differs from city to city.

Patronati and CAF give free help with paperwork - see the CAF and patronati catalogue.