895 Residency application

My residency was done very quickly, about half an hour in the comune and ready the following day if memory serves, but I already had a car then, the insurer covered us when we could prove we'd applied for Permesso, however a fine if 140 euro had to be paid because the registration was delayed, but, still cheaper than hiring. We used the insurer that the family who'd lived here used, presumably this was the reason for the "special favour".

Applying for our residency was very straightforward. that was 20 days ago. The police have not arrived though, and expect our residency cards soon

We were asked some questions, such as 'how long was your education', which was the same question we where asked 3 years ago when we applied for residcency in the U.S. They took photocopies of our passports and codice fiscale. We didnt need photos though as they had a file on us which contained some of the original 4 we sent for our permesso's. All seemed straight forward though. They said it would take 3-4 weeks which means probaly 15 weeks. As we have car from the U.S we escaped the rental drain.

Good luck

[QUOTE=alex and lyn]Hi,
We are in San Vito dei Normanni ( for those who don't already know us !), and today we finally picked up our Carte di Soggiorno from Brindisi..so we are sort of legal !!!!

Our next step is to apply for residency. Has anyone been through the process and any experiences to share with us please.

We know we apply at the Commune in San Vito dei Normanni and need our passports, Carte di Soggiorno and codice fiscale, all of which we now have. We also have some passport photos. Anything else we need and how long does the process take ?

I had a word with our lawyer yesterday and he said that once we register and have the receipt for our documents , we may be able to buy a car, before the official residency comes through.

As this is our main concern ( to buy a car ), as we are hiring at the moment and it is bleeding us dry but we have to have a car where we are ( in the country). Does anyone know if this is correct ?

We would be grateful for all help and advise with this process.
many thanks
Alex and Lyn[/QUOTE]

I can share my experience remembering when I moved from Bari to Porto Recanati.
I asked for residency to "ufficio anagrafe" in Comune, they gave me a receipt of my request and within 10 days the local police had cecked I was really there, living in my house.
After residency you can get the "carta di identità", a document that we in Italy have since a century, and that mr Blair is going to introduce in UK too.
Time of the process can change from comune to comune, so I don't know how long it will take in San vito dei Normanni.
Regarding the car, you can buy it just with a request of residency, because when the comune gives residency to you, it starts from the date you asked it.

thanks everyone,
some really useful info..looks like good news about the car.

I'm so jealous. We are still waiting on our permesso di siggiourno. 10 weeks and counting.......

Ohhh, Kirstin, spent 3 1/2 monthe waiting for the Permesso, thn, when we collected it, it looked like it had been written by a 7 year old as part of a class exercise... and the residency document is an even bigger disappointment LOL, but, both worth their weight in gold. :D

We went along to the local Commune this morning, Huge great form was filled in ( lady was absolutely delightful ) and we go back in a month to pick it up.
She told us we can't buy a car until we have the residency proper, so we are taking her word for it and have re-newed car for 1 month ( no other option really).
We have been told to expect police and even had to draw a map as our house doesn't actually have an address, just Contraldo Medico...and it is a maze here .

Hope all goes ok , will let you know if any further problems.

Must confess getting the Permisso di Soggiorno was much more hassle than this. We had to go to Brindisi to get that and the system is chaos.

You take a numbered ticket when you go in but no-one takes any notice of it. Everyone seems to just wander in and go up to the desks when they feel like it.
Finally got seen and that was a load of form filling etc and took a while and again we had to go back in a month(which was yesterday).
This time I became very Italian, and grabbed a very nice young lady almost as soon as we got there and she took our receipts. Then a chap just came to the door and shouted 'Permisso di Soggirno' and everyone just flocked through !!! Why did we take a numbered ticket ???!!!

I noticed ours was on the top of his pile , so we just went straight to the front of the crowd ( you couldn't call it a queue) and he did us straight away. We were in and out within 15 minutes clutching our carte di Soggiorno like we had just won the lottery !!!!

Oh Bella Italia, ti amiamo !!!