You made it to Italy. Now let's make it home — the first 45 days, handled together.
Residency registration, healthcare enrollment, utilities in a language you're still learning — the first weeks decide whether Italy feels like a dream or a fight. You won't do them alone.
Start with a free one-hour callThe moving-to-Italy checklist — done with someone who's done it
Every task below is simple when a local shows you, and maddening when nobody does. That's the entire idea of this stage.
Residency, registered
The permesso di soggiorno kit, the questura appointment, registering your residency at the comune's anagrafe office — sequenced correctly and attended together, because the order matters more than anyone tells you.
Healthcare that works
Enrolling in Italy's national health service (SSN) at the local ASL office, getting your health card, and choosing your family doctor — so you're covered from the first weeks, not "eventually."
The house, switched on
Electricity, gas, water, internet, and the waste tax — contracts transferred or opened in your name, in Italian, without you signing something you didn't understand.
Money & paperwork
Italian bank account opened, bills set to autopay the Italian way, codice fiscale sorted if it isn't already, and a simple system so nothing official gets missed.
Life logistics
Driving in Italy and what happens to your U.S. license, where to actually shop, how the pharmacy works, why the comune office keeps those hours — the unwritten manual, delivered in person.
Your people
The doctor, the plumber, the mechanic, the neighbor who knows everything — introductions from Nick's network, because in an Italian town, being introduced is half of belonging.
Italian bureaucracy front-loads everything. So do we.
Here's the truth about moving to Italy: the hard part isn't the ocean, it's the first six weeks after it. Nearly every registration has a deadline, and several depend on each other — the permesso application starts a clock, residency at the anagrafe unlocks healthcare, healthcare enrollment wants your residency, and the utility company wants documents you haven't received yet.
Done alone, this is where the dream gets bruised — expats routinely spend their first months shuttling between offices, in a language they're still learning, being sent back for one more document. Done with someone who speaks Italian and knows the local offices personally, it's a few well-planned weeks — and then you get to just live here.
That's what Make It Home is: up to 45 days of Nick in person, working the list with you until the boring parts are finished and the good part begins.
One-time fee covering up to 45 days of in-person assistance. Need help after the 45 days? It's there — at $350/hour, or through a monthly support package we'll shape around your situation. Government decisions and processing times belong to the authorities; we prepare, accompany, and follow up.
The settling-in checklist we run together
- Permesso di soggiorno application & questura appointment
- Residency registration at the comune (anagrafe)
- Codice fiscale — confirmed or obtained
- National health service (SSN) enrollment at the ASL + family doctor
- Utilities in your name: power, gas, water, internet
- Waste tax (TARI) registration
- Italian bank account & bill payments set up
- Driving: your license situation, sorted honestly
Forty-five days, front-loaded on purpose
The support is heaviest exactly when the bureaucracy is — and tapers as your independence grows:
Week One
The critical registrations
The deadline-driven items first: permesso paperwork, residency filing, codice fiscale. The clock-starting appointments get booked before jet lag wears off.
Weeks Two to Four
The house and the systems
Healthcare enrollment, utilities transferred, bank running, the house fully yours on paper. Each errand done together once — so you can do it alone forever after.
Days 30–45
Independence, backstopped
You're running your own life now; Nick backstops the stragglers — the appointment that got rescheduled, the letter you can't decode — and hands over a town's worth of introductions.
Settling into Italy: what people ask us
What exactly does the 45 days of support include?
In-person help with the full settling-in list: your permesso di soggiorno application and questura appointment, residency registration at the comune, national health service (SSN) enrollment and family doctor selection, utilities and internet in your name, waste tax registration, bank account, and the daily-life orientation nobody writes down. The 45 days run from when we start working together after your arrival — support is heaviest in the first weeks, when the deadlines are, and tapers as you find your feet.
What happens if I need help after the 45 days?
You're not cut off. Help beyond the 45 days is available at $350 per hour for the occasional question or appointment, or through a monthly support package we'll shape individually around what you actually need. Most clients find the 45 days covers the bureaucratic mountain — what comes after is usually smaller hills.
Do I need the other stages before booking Make It Home?
No — the stages are independent. Plenty of people arrive in Italy having handled the visa and the house themselves, and hit the wall at the registration stage. If that's you, this stage stands completely on its own. That said, clients who came through planning and the home search arrive with their documents already in order — which makes the 45 days noticeably smoother.
How does registering residency in Italy actually work?
In broad strokes: after arrival, non-EU citizens apply for the permesso di soggiorno (the postal kit and a questura appointment), then register residency at their comune's anagrafe office — which typically includes a visit from the local police to confirm you actually live at the address. The details vary by comune and by visa type, deadlines apply, and the steps unlock each other in a specific order. That's precisely why we do them together, in sequence, rather than you discovering the order by being sent home from an office.
How does Italian healthcare work for new residents?
Once your residency is registered, you can enroll in Italy's national health service (SSN) at the local ASL office — enrollment terms and any annual contribution depend on your visa and status — after which you receive your health card and choose a family doctor. Many new arrivals also carry the private policy their visa required during the transition. We handle the ASL enrollment together and make sure there's no gap where you're uncovered.
What does Stage 4 cost, and how does billing work?
Make It Home is a one-time $3,250 — not a subscription — covering up to 45 days of in-person support. Anything beyond that is $350/hour or a monthly package, discussed individually and agreed in writing before it starts. Payment is made securely through Stripe. Want to talk through your arrival first? Send us a note or book the free call.
The boxes will unpack themselves eventually. The bureaucracy won't.
Tell Nick when you're arriving. He'll tell you exactly what the first 45 days should look like — and then be there for them.