{"id":6052,"date":"2025-11-09T15:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:19:07","slug":"potential-retirement-visas-for-italy-and-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2025\/11\/09\/potential-retirement-visas-for-italy-and-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential long stay visas for Italy and France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consnewyork.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero\/visti\/visas-to-enter-italy\/elective-residency\/\">Elective residency \u2013 Consolato Generale d&#8217;Italia a New York<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;applicants with high self-sustaining incomes and financial assets who have a real necessity to stably residing in Italy and who can demonstrate a steady and adequate income (not from subordinate work) and other financial resources;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/france-visas.gouv.fr\/en\/long-stay-visa\">Long-stay visa &#8211; France-Visas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stay exceeding 3 months<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Your situation &#8211; You want to visit France for private reasons, for a period exceeding 3 months without engaging in any professional activity during your stay.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your visa &#8211; You must apply for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/france-visas.gouv.fr\/en\/web\/france-visas\/long-stay-visa\">long-stay<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;<strong>visitor<\/strong>&#8221; visa. You will be issued with a long-stay visa serving as a residence permit (VLS-TS). This visa is subject to an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/france-visas.gouv.fr\/web\/france-visas\/votre-arrivee-en-france\">online validation procedure after you arrive in France.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears I would qualify for a >90-day visa via proof of retirement income and\/or assets to be self-supporting. It is very nice that France has an online tool to research possible options.  Thank you France!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possible long stay visas (>90 days) for Italy and France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-planning","category-study-intern-abroad","category-work-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}