Milano questura: how long to wait for the permesso
How long the permesso di soggiorno takes in Milano, 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): 2-6 months
- Plastic card: 3 weeks - 3 months
- Community-reported speed: fast (95 chat mentions)
- Region: Lombardia
Wait for fingerprints
2-6 months
from filing the KIT to the impronte appointment, community-reported
Wait for the card
3 weeks - 3 months
from fingerprints to the ready plastic permesso, community-reported
Quirks of this questura
Widely seen as Italy's fastest big-city questura, especially for lavoro autonomo; nulla osta and economic parameters are stamped at one office on via Montebello 26. The city is split into district questure (Cinisello Balsamo and others), so timing depends on your address, while the surrounding province (Monza, Varese, Lecco) is handled separately and runs slower.
Community voices
We filed the renewal kit in December, got a May fingerprint date, and picked up the finished cards on June 5 - lightning-fast for the Milano area. Back in 2023 we waited half a year for the plastic.
In Milano it is roughly three weeks from giving fingerprints to the finished card, and they tell you the pickup date on the spot. The post office hands you a fingerprint day and time right away.
From the chat it works out to roughly two months give or take for fingerprints in Milano, and about the same again for the permit. Other cities swing wildly, but year-plus waits for fingerprints just do not happen here.
Quotes are paraphrased and anonymized; lived experience, not statistics.
What the chats say about the Milano questura
So, they made both ospitalità and the contract for me, I gave fingerprints and got a date to pick up the permesso. But on the appointed day it was not there: at the questura they said to make residenza in Milan, wrote this on the ricevuta, and stamped it.
Where people most often go wrong
- The case was submitted to the wrong questura: after moving, the address did not match the district, and the documents/fingerprints had to be redirected. (5 messages)
- They did not prepare extra papers for the fingerprints, and the questura requested something that normally is not required by the rules. (2 messages)
- They did not check the status after submission: without confirming with the questura, they might not have issued a temporary tessera and might not have set the correct wait for the plastic card. (2 messages)
- They relied on other people’s timelines, even though in Milan and across different questure the fingerprints and residence permit issuance can differ by months. (11 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 Milano?
By community experience fingerprints come 2-6 months after the KIT is filed, and the card is ready 3 weeks to 3 months after them. Milano is seen as Italy's fastest big-city questura, but timing depends on your address and the year - check current reports.
Where in Milano are the nulla osta and parameters stamped for lavoro autonomo?
By community accounts the nulla osta and the economic parameters for lavoro autonomo are stamped at one office on via Montebello 26 - one reason Milano is a favourite for this route.
What do the Milano questura timelines depend on?
The city is split into district questure (Cinisello Balsamo and others), so timing depends on the address in your KIT; the province (Monza, Varese, Lecco) is handled separately and runs slower. By community accounts the fingerprint day and time are often handed out right at the post office.
How many Russians hold a permesso in the province of Milano: ISTAT data
On 1 January 2025 Russian citizens held 6,687 permessi di soggiorno in the province of Milano, #1 of the 103 provinces in the ISTAT table. In 2023: 5,785; 2024: 6,387. Across Italy Russian citizens held 47,035.
To set against the chat waits below: the chats hold 13 reports of the wait from fingerprints to the card for the Milano questura, against 6,687 permits held by Russian citizens in the province.
| Citizenship | 1 Jan 2023 | 1 Jan 2024 | 1 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 5,785 | 6,387 | 6,687 |
| Ukraine | 34,599 | 35,643 | 36,432 |
| Georgia | 1,948 | 2,664 | 3,331 |
| All non-EU citizens | 475,616 | 467,638 | 493,601 |
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
For the Milano questura the chats hold 13 reports: from fingerprints to the ready card took a median of 38 days, from 20 to 182.
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.
Other questure in Lombardia
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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