Italian Golden Visa and its statistics
How many foreign investors have requested the Investor Visa for Italy so far and how many have been accepted? Where do the investors come from?
Number of the Applications for the Italian Investor Visa
From 2018 to 2021, 64 investors applied for the Italian Investor Visa.
Year | Number of Applications |
2018 | 7 |
2019 | 6 |
2020 | 11 |
2021 | 40 |
Nationality of the Applications for the Italian Investor Visa
The 64 investors who applied for the Italian Investor Visa came from 20 different countries. Yet, we can see that most of them are either from the US, Russia or UK.
State | Number of Applicants |
Russia | 14 |
USA | 14 |
UK | 7 |
Canada | 5 |
Siria | 4 |
Cina | 3 |
Israel | 3 |
Libanon | 2 |
Other | 12 |
What type of investments did they select for the application?
The most popular option is definitely the investment of at least 500.000,00 euro in equity instruments of a company based and operating in Italy.
For more information, please see: Eligibility for the Investor Visa for Italy.
Type of Investment selected | Number of Applications |
min. 500K euro in an Italian Company | 43 |
min. 250K euro in an Italian Startup | 9 |
min. 2 million euro in Italian Gov. Bond | 10 |
min. 1 million euro donation | 2 |
How Many applications have been accepted?
From the 64 applications, 50 were accepted.
In which cities do foreign investors invest in Italy?
According to the data of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, the foreign investors who applied for the Italian Investor Visa, invested in the following Italian cities.
Italian City | Number of Investors who invested in that city |
Milano | 21 |
Rome | 13 |
Florence | 4 |
Sassari | 4 |
Como | 3 |
Novara | 3 |
Lucca | 2 |
Teramo | 2 |
Venice | 2 |
Other | 10 |
References
Investor Visa for Italy：Monitoring Report （available at: https://www.mise.gov.it/images/stories/documenti/1_Relazione_monitoraggio_Investor_Visa_Dicembre_2021pdf.pdf )
Italian Ministry of Economic Development (https://www.mise.gov.it/it/notizie-stampa/investor-visa-40-milioni-gli-investimenti-esteri-attirati-in-italia )