EU permit for long-term residents

EU permit for long-term residents, what is it?

The EU residence permit for long-term residents (SLP), which formally replaced the residence card, is a residence permit that recognizes a privileged condition for its holder because it authorizes him to stay in Italy indefinitely.
Possession of the EU residence permit for long-term residents allows:

a) to enter Italy visa-free and circulate freely on the national territory,

b) to carry out any subordinate or autonomous work activity, except for those that the law expressly forbids to foreigners or in any case reserves to EU citizens (Article 9, paragraph 4, letter b), TUI). In order to carry out subordinate work, the stipulation of the residence contract referred to in art. 5-bis, TU Immigration (see section 9 – the condition of the foreign worker),

c) to take advantage of social assistance, social security services, those relating to health, educational and social payments, those relating to access to goods and services available to the public, including access to the procedure for ” obtaining public residential housing, unless otherwise provided and provided that his actual residence in the national territory is proven,

d) to participate in local public life, with the forms and within the limits established by current legislation

Requirements

All foreign citizens holding a residence permit CANNOT apply for an EU residence permit for long-term resident (SLP):

for study or professional training reasons,
for temporary protection,
for medical treatment
for social protection reasons (Article 18 TUI)
for victims of domestic violence (18-bis TUI)
for disasters (20-bis TUI)
for labor exploitation (Article 22, paragraph 12-quater, TUI)
for acts of particular civil value (42-bis TUI)
for special protection (Article 32, paragraph 3, of Legislative Decree 28 January 2008, n.25)
for international protection request (pending a final decision)
for short-term stays for temporary reasons (au pair work, seasonal work, secondment …)
who enjoy a status provided for by the Vienna Convention of 1961-1963-1969-1975 on diplomatic relations (see article 9, paragraph 3, TUI).

The EU residence permit for long-term residents (SLP) can be requested by the foreign citizen, holder of a residence permit, other than those listed above, which proves:

a) to hold a valid residence permit for at least five years,

b) to be resident in a Municipality at the time of submitting the application,

c) to have an income of no less than the annual amount of the social allowance (for 2021 equal to € 5,983.64 per year, or € 460.28 per month), increased by half the resulting amount for each dependent family member, in the case request also relating to the latter. (Article 29, paragraph 3, letter b) of the Consolidated Law on Immigration). In the presence of two or more children under the age of 14, a minimum income of not less than double the annual amount of the social allowance is required.

d) to have suitable accommodation that falls within the minimum parameters established by the regional law for public residential housing, certified by the competent municipal technical office
d1) or to have accommodation that meets the hygienic-sanitary suitability requirements ascertained by the local ASL competent for the territory (Article 9, paragraph 1, TU Immigration).
The certificate of suitability for accommodation ( see here what it consists of), issued by the competent municipal offices / ASL, given its nature of attestation of technical or hygienic-sanitary conformity and not of certificate, does not have a time limit and can be validly presented together with the application for an EU residence permit for residents of long term even beyond six months from its release (see the Ministry of the Interior’s Circular of 13/04/2012). If the document also reports the number of residents or simple guests, that part is in the nature of a certificate and, therefore, must be integrated with an updated family status certificate certifying the current number of occupants of the property.
The requirement of housing suitability is not required of the alien holder of international protection and his family members (Article 9, paragraph 1-ter TU Immigration).

e) that it is not considered dangerous for public order and state security

f) to possess a level of knowledge of the Italian language not lower than level A2

EU long-term residence permit: how to get it?

In PWS they help you with the preparation and sending of the request to the reference authorities