The “start-up visa” is designed for non-EU nationals who wish to establish an innovative start-up business or join an already established startup company in Italy. For more information, contact us.
Italy Startup Visa Overview: The Italy startup visa program is tailored for entrepreneurs looking to relocate to Italy to set up an innovative start-up business (companies must meet the conditions set forth by law 221/2012) or to join an already established startup company.
Availability: Startup visas are subject to the availability of immigration quotas issued yearly by the Government.
For those intending to join an existing start-up, additional conditions apply:
Requirements for the Italian Startup Visa
The requirements in order to set up a startup and in order to apply for a startup visa are the following:
- the startup must be operative from no more than 4 years,
- it must have its principal headquarters in Italy,
- it must have less than 5 millions € of income,
- having as exclusive or major business the innovation technology,
- do not share profits,
- it does not have to be constitued from merging or following a a branch of a firm,
- it must satisfy at leats one of the following criterias:
- at least 15% of its expenses are in Research & Development (R&D) activities,
- the team is composed or at least for a third of PhD students or PhDs or by personnel who have carried out research activities for at least three years, or at least two thirds from holders of master’s degrees,
- is the owner, custodian or licensee of a patent, of a right industrial or original software registered with SIAE.
The law allows startup visa applications to be filed through a certified incubator, which is an Italian company with specific features that can host start-ups and provide technical, legal, and management support, as well as the necessary equipment and space to develop their business.
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