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Questura and the permesso card
Give fingerprints at your appointment, attend any integration session, then wait for the plastic card - timelines vary widely by city.
Not legal advice
Decomposed from community knowledge-base articles for orientation. Deadlines, fees, document lists, and Questura practice differ by motive and city and change over time. This is not legal advice. Verify everything on official Italian sources (poste.it, questure.poliziadistato.it, agenziaentrate.gov.it, interno.gov.it, salute.gov.it) and with a qualified advisor before acting.
Fingerprinting at the Questura
Attend the appointment printed on your ricevuta sheet to give fingerprints.
By appointmentGo to the Questura address, date, and time on the sheet you got with the ricevuta. Each Questura works at its own pace; by community reports the wait for the fingerprinting appointment is longer in big cities - in some cases around 2-3 months, but these are only observations. Bring the originals listed on your sheet plus your passport, ricevuta, and the appointment slip. Verify the current procedure on questure.poliziadistato.it.
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- Arrive early and bring copies of everything; missing a copy can cost you another appointment weeks away.
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savedCollect the permesso card
The plastic card follows fingerprinting; faster in some cities, months in others. Until then you live on the ricevuta.
~30-40 days by law, often longerAfter fingerprinting the plastic permesso card is produced. By community experience some Questure keep to schedule while others delay by months. You check status and the readiness/pick-up notice on the Questura portal with the codes from your ricevuta. Until the card is in hand the ricevuta plus the appointment slip remain your legal documents.
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- Costs and the ~30-40 day legal window are time-sensitive - check current info on questure.poliziadistato.it before assuming a date.
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