Study permit to "search for jobs" (attesa occupazione) permit

"Attesa Occupazione"

Yes! in Italy, you have a special permit of stay which they call as "Attesa Occupazione" to stay looking for jobs after you complete your studies for 1 year.

Some Advantages of this permit:

•  The attessa occipazione permit holder can take subsidised bus/metro (GTT Torino) pass (which is very cheap compared to regular travel pass)
• The permit holder can start working immediately when offered a job from an industry, later can convert it to work permit while working.

Can you renew this permit after 1 year?

No! It is not possible to renew this permit. In case the graduate is not able to find a job within this 12 months, he/she has to go back to his/her country of origin.

Please read further for more info:

The permit to search for jobs (attesa occupazione) is a document which gives a foreign national graduated in an Italian university to stay in the country and search for jobs for a maximum time period of 12 months.

Procedure to convert a valid study permit to Attesa occupazione after graduation.

The graduate is required to register himself/herself in the unemployment office corresponding to his/her city .

For Turin , (please find it on google for other cities)

Centro per l'Impiego – Torino

Via Bologna, 153 ,Turin, Italy
+39,011,861 4800

In order to register, one has to go in person to get an appointment from the front desk.

On the day of the appointment, the following documents has to be produced to the officer.

• Degree certificate
• Transcripts
• A valid study permit
• Passport
• Codice fiscale

It advised to take 2 set of photo copies of all the above mentioned documents since few officers demand the copies from the applicants.

During the registration process, a personal profile is created for the applicant and the user name and password will be given in a printed sheet.

Once the registration is over, the applicant will be given a certificate of unemployment which is required to be submitted along with other documents to the questura for converting the study permit to Attesa occupazione.

An experience from an applicant:

There are many offices which help foreign graduates in the process of document conversions.

For example in Turin ,

One of the offices is at Via della consolata, 23 .

The documents required

• A valid study permit
• Passport
• Codice fiscale
• The certificate from the unemployment office (Centro per l'Impiego)
• Marco de Bollo stamp : 16.52 euros

These offices also work on appointments or token system depending on the number of applicants .

Here, the documents will be verified and the application for conversion will be registered online and the postal envelope kit with all the documents will be handed over to the applicant.

Please note: The following fee structure are subjected to change, depends on the time of application. 

With this, one has to go the post office and pay 30 euros for the postal charges and around 80 euros (may change every year) as fee at the sportello amico counter and get the dates for fingerprinting .

It is not required to pay for the insurance like before for renewal of study permits. 

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Special Thanks to Mr. Balaji Karthic Sampath Kumar (Msc Automotive Engineering, Polito) for writing this article.