Italy entry requirements, by passport

How much money you need to show

€269.60 in total for a trip of 1 to 5 days, or €44.93 per day for 6 to 10 days, if you travel alone

Longer trips add a fixed sum to a daily one: for 11 to 20 days, €51.64 plus €36.67 per day; from 21 days, €206.58 plus €27.89 per day. When two or more people travel together, each needs less: €212.81 for 1 to 5 days, €26.33 per day for 6 to 10, €25.82 plus €22.21 per day for 11 to 20, and €118.79 plus €17.04 per day from 21 days. You also need to show where you are staying, with a hotel booking or a declaration of hospitality, and have the money or ticket to get home. This is Table A of the Interior Ministry directive of 1 March 2000.

Source: European Commission, Annex 25 to the Practical Handbook for Border Guards (reference amounts notified by each State), version of 8 June 2026, and Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (esteri.it, page on the funds required to enter Italy). Checked on 1 November 2026.

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Vaccinations

• No mandatory vaccines for entry. The international vaccination certificate is asked of nobody: not the yellow fever one, and not even of travellers arriving from a country with risk of transmission. That is what the country has declared in the International Health Regulations list.

Customs limits

Cash

Declare to Italian customs if entering or leaving the EU with €10,000 or more in cash or equivalent (gold, bearer cheques, cryptocurrency included). Failing to declare it triggers an administrative seizure of 10% to 50% of the amount over €10,000, with a minimum fine of €300 (Customs and Monopolies Agency, ADM).

Alcohol

Arriving from outside the EU (age 17+): 4 litres of still wine + 16 litres of beer, plus 1 litre of drinks over 22% vol. (or ethyl alcohol ≥80%) or 2 litres of drinks up to 22%.

Tobacco

Arriving from outside the EU (age 17+): 200 cigarettes, or 100 cigarillos, or 50 cigars, or 250g of smoking tobacco.

Overstay penalties

Entering or staying in Italy irregularly is a criminal contravention punished by a fine of 5,000 to 10,000 euros (Consolidated Immigration Act, Legislative Decree 286/1998, Art. 10-bis); the court drops the case once the expulsion is carried out. Anyone who stays without applying for a visa extension in time, or after it expires, can be expelled by the prefect (Art. 13(2)(b)), and the expulsion carries a re-entry ban of three to five years (Art. 13(14)). If the overstay is detected on exit at an external border, no expulsion order is issued, but a re-entry ban of one to three years from departure may be imposed (Art. 13(2-ter)).

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Grounds for refusal

Apply to: Visa-free

• Not presenting a valid travel document: valid for at least three months after the intended departure and issued within the previous ten years (Art. 6(1)(a)).
• Not justifying the purpose and conditions of the stay, or not showing sufficient means of subsistence for the stay and the return (Art. 6(1)(c)).
• Having already used up the 90 days within the current 180-day period (Art. 6(1)).
• Being the subject of a Schengen Information System (SIS) alert for the purpose of refusing entry (Art. 6(1)(d)).
• Being considered a threat to public policy, internal security, public health or the international relations of a Schengen State (Art. 6(1)(e)).

Source: Regulation (EU) 2016/399 (Schengen Borders Code) , Art. 6(1). A refusal is given in writing with its reasons and can be appealed (Art. 14).

Apply to: Visa required

• Producing a false or falsified travel document, or reasonable doubts arising about the authenticity of the supporting documents submitted or the truthfulness of their content (Regulation (EC) 810/2009, Art. 32(1)(a)(i) and 32(1)(b)).
• Failing to justify the purpose and conditions of the intended stay (Art. 32(1)(a)(ii); the same entry condition appears in Art. 6(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2016/399, so it is also checked at the border).
• Failing to provide proof of sufficient means of subsistence for the whole intended stay and for the return to the country of origin or residence, and not being in a position to acquire such means lawfully (Art. 32(1)(a)(iii)).
• Having already used up the 90 days of stay within the current 180-day period on the territory of the Member States (Art. 32(1)(a)(iv)).
• Being the subject of an alert in the Schengen Information System (SIS) for the purpose of refusing entry (Art. 32(1)(a)(v)).
• Being considered a threat to public policy, internal security, public health or the international relations of any Member State (Art. 32(1)(a)(vi)).
• Failing to provide proof of adequate and valid travel medical insurance, where applicable (Art. 32(1)(a)(vii)).
• Reasonable doubts arising about the reliability of the statements made or about the applicant’s intention to leave the territory of the Member States before the visa applied for expires (Art. 32(1)(b)).

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