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Goal

Bring my family

Spouse, children or parents: pick your route, prepare civil documents, nulla osta, visa, permit and school.

About 300 days 24 steps

You end withYour family in Italy with valid permits, codice fiscale, health cover and school places.

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Step 5 of 24

Prepare the family documents

Who is this for

Families preparing papers for any family route.

Sources

Last verified: 2026-10-21 Report an error

Steps

  1. Find your family route
  2. Check you can sponsor
  3. Check your income against the threshold
  4. Get the housing suitability certificate
  5. Prepare the family documents
  6. F2: prove the family relationship
  7. Apply for the family reunification nulla osta
  8. Wait for the family nulla osta
  9. Track the nulla osta and answer requests
  10. entry-visa
  11. entry-visa-eu-family
  12. The first days after the family arrives
  13. permesso
  14. Collect the family residence permit
  15. residence-document-eu-family
  16. F4: check your eligibility
  17. F4: apply for the family permit
  18. F4: fingerprints and collecting the permit
  19. Work and school once the permit is issued
  20. school
  21. renew
  22. permanent-residence
  23. For parents of students aged 14 to 17
  24. Something went wrong with my family file

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