Bergamo questura: how long to wait for the permesso
How long the permesso di soggiorno takes in Bergamo, from community experience. Figures are approximate and community-reported - verify with the questura itself.
Updated: - permesso.love editorial team
In brief: community data
- Fingerprints (impronte): from 6-9 months to over a year
- Plastic card: 1-3 months
- Community-reported speed: mixed (28 chat mentions)
- Region: Lombardia
Wait for fingerprints
from 6-9 months to over a year
from filing the KIT to the impronte appointment, community-reported
Wait for the card
1-3 months
from fingerprints to the ready plastic permesso, community-reported
Quirks of this questura
A very large inflow of migrants means the fingerprint queue is often pushed to the next year, but with new management the atmosphere has improved. Documents are accepted online (via CAF / patronati) and they willingly reschedule dates on request.
Community voices
Getting a fingerprint slot in Bergamo happened almost by chance through a patronato - someone cancelled, otherwise they were giving dates a year out. After giving prints, the permesso showed up as ready online within a couple of weeks.
The Bergamo questura rescheduled my date three times without any fuss, replied within a week, and sent an official letter with the new date.
Quotes are paraphrased and anonymized; lived experience, not statistics.
What the chats say about the Bergamo questura
At the questura in Bergamo, documents are accepted online. I don’t know about private individuals, but through CAF, definitely: they sent my whole packet online, and the questura sent the appointment time already to my number.
For permesso and D visa, the line is separate. We went through quickly, only families with children were let in ahead; in all passports they wait 2–3 hours.
Where people most often go wrong
- At fingerprints, the dossier is often not ready, and the visit to the questura goes to waste. (2 messages)
Paraphrased messages from the community chats, no names; everyone's timing differs - check your status on the police site.
FAQ
How long is the permesso wait in Bergamo?
By community experience the Bergamo fingerprint queue runs from 6-9 months to over a year (the office is overloaded), while the card is ready 1-3 months after prints - sometimes the "ready" status shows online within a couple of weeks. Community-reported, check current data.
How do you file documents with the Bergamo questura?
By community accounts documents are accepted online via CAF and patronati; through a patronato you can sometimes catch an earlier fingerprint slot when someone cancels.
Can you reschedule the fingerprint date in Bergamo?
Yes - by community experience dates are rescheduled willingly and without fuss: they reply within a week and send an official letter with the new date.
How many Russians hold a permesso in the province of Bergamo: ISTAT data
On 1 January 2025 Russian citizens held 761 permessi di soggiorno in the province of Bergamo, #14 of the 103 provinces in the ISTAT table. In 2023: 726; 2024: 738. Across Italy Russian citizens held 47,035.
| Citizenship | 1 Jan 2023 | 1 Jan 2024 | 1 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 726 | 738 | 761 |
| Ukraine | 8,511 | 8,487 | 8,542 |
| Georgia | 80 | 81 | 78 |
| All non-EU citizens | 103,546 | 97,732 | 95,755 |
Source: ISTAT, "Permessi di soggiorno al 1° gennaio - Provincia e cittadinanza" (dataset 29_348_DF_DCIS_PERMSOGG1_5); data at 1 January 2023-2025, retrieved 2026-09-25. Non-EU citizens only.
How long the permesso takes after fingerprints: chat data
Across Italy: 67 reports, median 45 days (first permesso 44 days over 49 reports, renewal 66 over 18). The whole way from posting the KIT to the card has a median of 214 days, over six months for 30 of 50.
- under 1 month16
- 1-2 months20
- 2-3 months13
- 3-4 months3
- 4-6 months8
- 6-9 months6
- over 9 months1
Waits read by hand in open chat messages 2022 - June 2026 (snapshot 2026-06-23); lived experience, not questura statistics. To check whether your card is ready: how to check if your permesso is ready.
How the process goes and where to check
The questura assigns fingerprints by the address on your KIT, then prints the plastic card. Track the application status on the Polizia di Stato site.
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Not legal advice or official statistics - community observations across different years. Verify timing and procedure on questure.poliziadistato.it and with the questura itself.
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