Roma questura: how long to wait for the permesso
How long the permesso di soggiorno takes in Roma, 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): 6-12 months
- Plastic card: 3 weeks - 2.5 months, rarely up to 7
- Community-reported speed: slow (130 chat mentions)
- Region: Lazio
Wait for fingerprints
6-12 months
from filing the KIT to the impronte appointment, community-reported
Wait for the card
3 weeks - 2.5 months, rarely up to 7
from fingerprints to the ready plastic permesso, community-reported
Quirks of this questura
Notorious for queues and slowness: huge lines at the Ufficio Immigrazione, hard to even get inside, and the online booking via via Patini is tricky to find. All permessi are printed in Rome, yet even local cases often drag on.
Community voices
In Rome I could not even get inside the questura. I queued from the evening until ten in the morning, and the doors shut right in front of me once they hit the daily capacity.
I applied for the permesso at the end of January, and they scheduled fingerprints almost a year later, and on top of that at a questura outside the city. So I will collect the plastic with an already expired visa.
My first permesso was held up three months, then withheld another three. I had to keep showing up at the questura without an appointment, and only on the fifth try did they say - oh, here it is.
Quotes are paraphrased and anonymized; lived experience, not statistics.
What the chats say about the Roma questura
I submitted the kit in Fiumicino, near Rome. They scheduled everyone’s fingerprints there exactly 2 weeks later, and the post office didn’t change anything. But I just called the place where I submitted it and moved the appointment to another day.
I was missing one paper, and for two months after submitting there was complete silence. Then I started calling the questura myself, and it turned out that the problem was exactly with the documents; they called me in again, and a month after that I received the permesso.
Where people most often go wrong
- In Rome, the appointment at the questura and the issuance of the card can drag on for months because of the limit on spots and the overload. (5 messages)
- If you do not bring or do not take into account the missing documents, the case can get stuck and not move any further along the chain. (5 messages)
- Without checking the codice and the data in the system, the card may not be sent to print or may be reprinted with a delay. (2 messages)
- After fingerprints, the plastic is often not ready for a long time: the status and SMS may not update, and the card is already at the questura. (10 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 di soggiorno wait in Rome?
By community experience the Rome questura schedules fingerprints 6-12 months after the KIT is filed, and the plastic card is usually ready 3 weeks to 2.5 months after them: in 6 chat reports (2023 - June 2026) fingerprints to card took 21 to 74 days, with a single case of about 7 months (210 days). Timelines vary a lot case by case - track the status on questure.poliziadistato.it.
How do you get into the Rome questura without a huge queue?
By community accounts the Ufficio Immigrazione queues are huge: people line up from the evening, and only a limited number are let in per day. Online booking via the via Patini office exists, but it is tricky to find.
Why is the Rome questura called slow?
The community ranks it among the slowest: a huge applicant flow, and although every permesso in the country is printed in Rome, even local cases often drag on. These are personal observations, not official statistics.
How many Russians hold a permesso in the province of Roma: ISTAT data
On 1 January 2025 Russian citizens held 4,493 permessi di soggiorno in the province of Roma, #2 of the 103 provinces in the ISTAT table. In 2023: 4,261; 2024: 4,333. Across Italy Russian citizens held 47,035.
To set against the chat waits below: the chats hold 6 reports of the wait from fingerprints to the card for the Roma questura, against 4,493 permits held by Russian citizens in the province.
| Citizenship | 1 Jan 2023 | 1 Jan 2024 | 1 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 4,261 | 4,333 | 4,493 |
| Ukraine | 30,888 | 31,064 | 30,810 |
| Georgia | 2,216 | 2,389 | 2,644 |
| All non-EU citizens | 347,840 | 337,457 | 341,860 |
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 Roma questura the chats hold 6 reports: from fingerprints to the ready card took a median of 65 days, from 21 to 210.
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.
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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