I got a two-year residence permit, and already in November you can apply again — I only just recovered from that nerve‑wracking ordeal, and now it’s happening again. It’s also weird that different regions handle everything differently. Has anyone already gone through the renewal — for the second application do you need to gather the same documents in KIT as you did the first time?
Choose “Aggiornamento” in the kit for renewals — that’s if your residence permit is still valid. In Turin, when I went to give my fingerprints I got an officer who started looking for reasons to request additional documents and kept me there for two hours; he demanded proof of current income for the income-based residence permit. So it’s best to bring up-to-date statements with you — even if they weren’t requested when you first applied.
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My husband had this happen in Milan with his fingerprints — he went to his questura (квестура), and they said the new address belongs to a different precinct. They gave him a date at another questura, so he had to wait two weeks for a new appointment. So if you moved during that time, it’s better to check in advance which questura you now belong to, so you won’t get a surprise when you get there. And one more thing — they don’t always roll all the fingers in a separate room anymore; for us they only did the index fingers, right at the window.
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I applied in Milan — I applied on May 9, and the fingerprint appointment arrived just over a month later. The kit had one address listed, but by the time of the fingerprints I’d already moved to a different neighborhood, and the questura didn’t say anything about it. So matching addresses isn’t as strict as it seems.
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Three months left on the contract — and again the kit, again the Questura, again €100. That’s how it went for me in Turin: I applied for a residence permit on July 10, fingerprints were only taken in December, and I picked up a permesso valid until January — while my contract runs until July. For those few months you have to go through everything again. That’s the most aggravating thing about this system.
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When I applied in Genoa — the fingerprints came back about 7–8 weeks after submitting the document package, which is considered fast for our region. For the documents for the aggiornamento (renewal), the list in the package is almost the same as for the first application, only everything must have current dates — bank statements, employment contract if anything has changed. The advice they gave me at the Questura was: bring the same things as for the first time, just fresher.
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No one has written about leaving yet — a richevuta from China (ричевута из кита) allows you to return to Italy, but the other Schengen countries don’t accept it as a document. You can go to Russia, but you’ll re-enter on whatever valid visa you have — if you have one at the time of departure.
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The ricevuta (ричевута) is valid for only nine months — that’s true, and you need to renew it if the residence permit still hasn’t been issued. In Genoa this is done at the Questura without an appointment: you go there with the ricevuta, your passport and the up-to-date documents supporting your case, and they stamp it with a new validity date. Without this renewal you may be turned back when leaving the country.
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The visa doesn’t disappear after the permesso (residence permit) is issued - it stayed in my passport, nobody took it or canceled it. A lot of people worry you have to hand it in - you don’t. It just stays in the passport.
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