Hiring foreign workers in Italy

The employer drives the quota-based filing by using the decreto flussi window, securing the nulla osta, and keeping the job offer aligned with the collective-agreement and contract terms presented to the authorities.

• File the correct request during the relevant decreto flussi window when the case is quota-bound.
• Provide the employment contract terms and all sponsor-side declarations required by the Sportello Unico.
• Stay available for prefecture, labour, and questura follow-up until the worker completes the post-arrival formalities.

The employer files model BC through the Interior Ministry portal, shows the route-compliant contract or binding offer, and supports the qualification evidence that makes the worker eligible for the outside-quota Blue Card path.

• Submit the Blue Card work-clearance request through the dedicated online workflow.
• Issue a qualifying contract or binding offer of at least six months with compliant salary terms.
• Support the worker's qualification or experience evidence and any regulated-profession recognition needed for the file.

The host institution is central to the research route because it must be authorised to sign the hosting agreement and it is the institution that starts the research nulla osta process.

• Hold the authorisation needed to sign hosting agreements for foreign researchers.
• Issue the convenzione di accoglienza that defines the research project and institutional guarantees.
• File the research nulla osta and help the researcher navigate the local post-arrival formalities.

The host entity must show that the transfer really is intra-group, that the worker fits one of the ICT categories, and that the transfer terms meet the Italian conditions attached to the route.

• Document the corporate-group relationship between the sending employer and the Italian host entity.
• Show that the worker fits the manager, specialist, or trainee category and has the required prior employment period.
• Keep the transfer's salary and working conditions compliant for the full authorised assignment.