Torino questura: how long to wait for the permesso
How long the permesso di soggiorno takes in Torino, 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): 5-7 months
- Plastic card: 3 weeks - 3 months, rarely up to 6
- Community-reported speed: mixed (75 chat mentions)
- Region: Piemonte
Wait for fingerprints
5-7 months
from filing the KIT to the impronte appointment, community-reported
Wait for the card
3 weeks - 3 months, rarely up to 6
from fingerprints to the ready plastic permesso, community-reported
Quirks of this questura
Known for being picky: officers scrutinize every paper, lavoro autonomo applications are often refused, and they demand a statement from an Italian bank only. There are unofficial walk-in slots roughly 12:00 to 15:00 (about 50 tickets a day).
Community voices
We did fingerprints in a couple of hours: a bit outside, then inside the hangar at the windows. First permesso plus family reunification, it went surprisingly smoothly.
Student here: from the caf appointment to the plastic in hand it took about 11 months, a courier just brought the card to my door.
They would not accept a foreign bank statement and insisted on an Italian one - in Milan, people say, there is no such hassle.
Quotes are paraphrased and anonymized; lived experience, not statistics.
What the chats say about the Torino questura
I went to the questura even though the website status was “ready,” and the SMS never came; they turned me away right away.
I submitted the papers in July, they scheduled the fingerprints for October, and in November, a month later, I had already received it.
Where people most often go wrong
- After submitting, several months can pass before the fingerprints, and then you wait for the card separately. (3 messages)
- The timing depends a lot on the city: somewhere the fingerprints and card issuance take longer, somewhere they go faster. (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 Turin?
By community experience Turin schedules fingerprints in 5-7 months, and the card usually follows 3 weeks to 3 months after them, in single cases up to 6: in 5 chat reports (2024 - June 2026) fingerprints to card took 21, 37, 62, 86 and 181 days. Figures are community-reported and shift - verify real dates with the questura.
Can you get into the Turin questura without an appointment?
By community accounts there are unofficial walk-in slots roughly from 12:00 to 15:00, with about 50 tickets a day. This is a community observation and the practice can change at any time.
What documents does the Turin questura demand?
The questura is known for being picky: officers scrutinize every paper, lavoro autonomo refusals are not rare, and the bank statement is accepted from an Italian bank only. Prepare the full set plus spare copies.
How many Russians hold a permesso in the province of Torino: ISTAT data
On 1 January 2025 Russian citizens held 1,327 permessi di soggiorno in the province of Torino, #4 of the 103 provinces in the ISTAT table. In 2023: 1,216; 2024: 1,204. Across Italy Russian citizens held 47,035.
To set against the chat waits below: the chats hold 5 reports of the wait from fingerprints to the card for the Torino questura, against 1,327 permits held by Russian citizens in the province.
| Citizenship | 1 Jan 2023 | 1 Jan 2024 | 1 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 1,216 | 1,204 | 1,327 |
| Ukraine | 5,297 | 5,377 | 5,661 |
| Georgia | 100 | 129 | 194 |
| All non-EU citizens | 117,486 | 110,575 | 121,693 |
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 Torino questura the chats hold 5 reports: from fingerprints to the ready card took a median of 62 days, from 21 to 181.
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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