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No Passive-Income Permit in the Act - the Route Is a Visa Decree the Act Does Not Contain

Answer

The general rule applies to you

No exception is recorded for citizens of Peru on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.

98 exceptions recorded across 37 countries · none match Peru to Italy · Residency on passive income

The immigration Act creates permits by activity: employed work, self-employment, study, research, family, investment. It creates none for a person living on their own money. The route Italy actually uses for that reader - residenza elettiva, elective residence - comes from the visa decree rather than from the Act, and that decree is not read here. What the Act does say is that entry and stay beyond three months are allowed outside the quota for the investor cases of article 26-bis, which is the only place in the statute where money alone opens a door.

Verified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-09

At a glance

A permit written for passive income
None in the Act

The Act's residence permits are listed by activity and none of them is living on one's own means.

What Italy uses instead
The elective residence visa, created by the visa decree

That decree is not among the documents read here, so this record does not state its conditions.

Where money does appear in the Act
Article 26-bis, for investors, outside the quota

The number is the article of the Testo unico, quoted below, not an amount.

What applies to you

Nothing changes for a citizen of Peru

We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.

What the law says

Text layer - verbatim verifiedDecreto legislativo 25 luglio 1998, n. 286, Testo unico sull'immigrazione, testo vigente · Articolo 26-bis, comma 1
«L'ingresso e il soggiorno per periodi superiori a tre mesi sono consentiti, al di fuori delle quote di cui all'articolo 3, comma 4, agli stranieri che intendono effettuare , in nome proprio o per conto della persona giuridica che legalmente rappresentano: a) un investimento di almeno euro 2.000.000 in titoli emessi dal Governo italiano e che vengano mantenuti per almeno due anni; c) una donazione a carattere filantropico di almeno euro 1.000.000 a sostegno di un progetto di pubblico interesse, nei settori della cultura, istruzione, gestione dell'immigrazione, ricerca scientifica, recupero di beni culturali e paesaggistici e che: 1) dimostrano di essere titolari e beneficiari effettivi di un importo almeno pari a euro 2.000.000, nel caso di cui alla lettera a), o euro 1.000.000, nei casi di cui alla lettera b) e alla presente lettera, importo che deve essere in ciascun caso disponibile e trasferibile in Italia;»

The one route in the Act that turns on money, quoted so a reader can see what it is not: it is for investors and it names figures in the millions.

Read it at the source
About this source

The Italian state's portal for legislation in force. It shows each article as currently amended, with an explicit testo in vigore dal date, and links the amending instruments.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: It gives the text and not its interpretation. Article 3-bis reads clearly and has still generated years of litigation over what it means, which is why the Constitutional Court is watched alongside it. A consolidated text can also lag a very recent amendment.

We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source

Practical notes

This record exists to stop a reader looking for something the statute does not contain. The elective residence route is real and is in an instrument we have not read, and saying that is more use than paraphrasing a consulate page.

The investor record carries the figures in article 26-bis.

Sources1 · all accessed 2026-10-09
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    Testo unico sull'immigrazione, articolo 26-bis

    Normattiva, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri

    About this source

    The Italian state's portal for legislation in force. It shows each article as currently amended, with an explicit testo in vigore dal date, and links the amending instruments.

    Standing: Maintains the text in force

    Cannot be cited for: It gives the text and not its interpretation. Article 3-bis reads clearly and has still generated years of litigation over what it means, which is why the Constitutional Court is watched alongside it. A consolidated text can also lag a very recent amendment.

    We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source