RESIDENCY PERMIT FOR SUBORDINATE WORK 

(Art. 27, paragraph 1, letter m) of Legislative Decree no. 286/98 and subsequent amendments; Art. 40 of Presidential Decree 394/99 and subsequent amendments) 

ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL STAFF FOR MUSICAL, THEATRICAL, CONCERT OR BALLET PERFORMANCES

a) Application filled in and signed by the interested party (Modules 1 and 2);

b) Complete photocopy of passport or other equivalent document (see table no. 4);

c) To apply for a residency permit, Forms 1 and 2 must be filled in at the One-Stop Immigration Office when the residency contract is signed;

d) The application for a renewal of a residency permit must, apart from the application described in point a) contain a copy of the extension of the authorisation to work, photocopy of the residency contract signed by both parties and sent to the One- Stop Immigration Office and a copy of the registered mail return receipt for the same. 

NOTES:

1) Authorisation to work, and as a consequence the residency permit, may be issued for an initial period no longer than 12 months, excepting extensions.

2) The extension of the authorisation to work may be issued based on documented needs, solely in order to allow the show to come to a close and solely in order to continue the work relationship with the same employer. 

3) Authorisation to work is issued by the Directorate General for Employment – Secretariat for show business employment of Rome and the Special Employment Office for show business employees for Sicily in Palermo.

4) Entry visas for foreign artists to carry out short-term self-employed work, or nevertheless for less than ninety (90) days, are issued outside of the quotas set by the programming decree for immigration influxes, with the proviso that interested artists may not carry out work for a producer or employer different from the one for which the visa was issued. In such cases, the application for a residency permit must include:

a) Application filled in and signed by the interested party (Modules 1 and 2);    

b) Complete photocopy of passport or other equivalent document (see table no. 4);

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