Okay, this post is basically the main reason I created this blog. I cannot tell you how many hours (days, weeks…) I lost trying to figure out what I needed to do in order to get a marriage license to marry my Italian husband in Italy. There is a long list of documents you need…
Category: How to Survive Italian Bureaucracy
Carta di Soggiorno – Required Documents
If you are an American planning to stay in Italy for an extended period of time, you are going to have to make it official. One of the ways to do this is to get either a permesso di soggiorno or a carta di soggiorno. Both of these documents allow you to move freely within…
Things You Can’t Ship to Italy
Whether you are moving to Italy and thinking of mailing some of your American stuff to yourself, or you’re planning to send a care package to someone living in Italy, you may be surprised to learn that there are a lot of things that can’t be shipped to Italy via the mail. Like, a LOT….
The Italian Post Office: It’s Not Just for Mail
If you are already an American living in Italy, you are surely familiar with the Italian postal service. It’s the service that always loses your care packages from home, right? And the post office is where you go to stand in line to pick up that package when it finally arrives and you weren’t home…
What Is a Green Pass? And Why Do I Need One?
This post is preempting some of the other blog posts I was planning to do about summer in Italy, and rightly so. The Green Pass has been in almost every headline in the Italian news lately, because starting from August 6, 2021, you can’t do much of anything in Italy without it. Here are some…