I’m sorting out the documents for a residence permit and don’t fully understand the logic. With a long-term contract you prepare a dossier and open a bank account — do these work together, or is something else required separately? And about the internet bill: can it be submitted as proof of residence in any dossier, or only in certain cases?
The bank and the dossier are parallel processes; they don’t wait for each other. For the account you need a passport, codice fiscale (Italian fiscal code), and proof of address — this is exactly where an online bill comes in. In Turin they accepted it from me with no questions. For the dossier itself the questura (police headquarters) requires a wider set of documents, and the bill there is just one of several options for proof, not the only one.
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Thanks, that’s clearer now. And the address verification for the account — does an internet invoice count, or would they also accept something like a gas bill if the internet isn’t connected yet?
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They also accept the gas bill, not just the internet. With an Iren invoice in Turin they accepted it without questions — the same paper with the name and address. The bank checks the date, it must be no older than three months, and the type of utility bill isn’t important.
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In Turin they didn’t ask us for any paperwork at all - they just looked up the address by the codice and handed everything over. At that time I had absolutely nothing except my Russian passport.
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The codice fiscale (Italian fiscal code) was the hardest part of all this for me. The first time at the agency they simply refused — my Russian passport, they said there were no grounds. I went a second time, already with a ricevuta (receipt) and a printout of an article from the tax code — and then they issued it. Until that point I hadn’t really bothered about the bank.
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The situation with the codice fiscale (tax code) and a Russian passport is a separate story. I ended up with three of them — I got one through the Russian consulate in Milan, then two more at an agency, and for a long time I didn’t understand what was what. In the end the agency issued a storico codice fiscale (a historical record that ties the codice fiscale numbers together) — it’s a document that confirms all three numbers belong to the same person. For Revolut there’s a separate point: in the app you need to attach the certificato di attribuzione del codice fiscale (certificate of assignment of the tax code) with signature and stamp instead of the tessera sanitaria (health card). The card alone isn’t accepted.
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They also open them at the post office — with a ricevuta and the plastic Codice Fiscale or Tessera Sanitaria. In Turin they accept that combination without questions. If it doesn’t work with a regular bank, it’s a viable option.
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