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Owing to the immense pressure of the labor market and organizations, Italy may announce the biggest ever Decretto Flussi for 2022 for 80,000 work permits. The decree is the act that establishes the maximum quota of entries (or regularizations) of non-European Union citizens for reasons of work and is expected later this month. Andrea Orlando, the Minister of Labor stated had already started back in August that “the new decree will guarantee higher entry quotas than in the past (for seasonal and subordinate work and permanent residency)”.
Foreigners will be admitted to Italy for non-seasonal subordinate work in the sectors of freight transport for third parties, construction, and hotel tourism, but also agro-food and manufacturing. An entry fee will be reserved for non-EU workers residing abroad who have participated in professional training and education courses in their countries of origin “.
In Italy construction, agriculture and tourism workers are urgently needed and the new flows decree will have to take this into account. Istat estimates that at the end of September around 400,000 places were vacant in the country, a share that has never been so high since there has been data in relation to employed persons. Among the most sought-after skills, those in construction and “scientific and technical activities”: exactly those on which the fate of Recovery is decided.
The interior minister Luciana Lamorgese, the foreign minister Luigi di Maio and the labor minister Andrea Orlando participate in the working group that prepares it; the three are consulting the categories of companies (which ask for more employees, including foreigners) and the trade unions (which do not oppose the new permits).
These numbers are weighing, in recent weeks, on the table that will have to determine the “Decretto Flussi” for 2022. For six years the flow decrees have been blocked at 30,850 permits, not one more. They also remained so for 2021, although in the meantime the constraint – set at the beginning of the legislature by the then Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini – of never exceeding the levels of the previous year has been lifted.
According to what is learned from the daily newspaper Il Mattino on newsstands on 29 November “ we will therefore go from the 30,850 expected last year to about 80,000 . An almost tripled number that will open the doors of work in Italy to qualified personnel and to those who request them “.
Decreto Flussi eligible countries
The “Decreto Flussi” system is only for eligible countries. The candidates of the following countries can apply for the visa under “Decreto Flussi”(the list could be changed by the interior ministry of Italy any time before the program announcement):
- Albania
- Algeria
- Bangladesh
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Korea (Republic of Korea)
- Ivory Coast
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Philippines
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Japan
- India
- Kosovo
- Mali
- Morocco
- Mauritius
- Moldova
- Montenegro
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Republic of North Macedonia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Tunisia
- Ukraine
- Guatemala
What is “Decreto Flussi”?
The “Decreto Flussi” (immigration flow) is issued every year and provides for the number of foreign citizens who can enter Italy to carry out non-seasonal, subordinate work, and self-employment. A special “Decreto Flussi” is envisaged for seasonal workers. “Decreto Flussi” visa system works under Legislative Decree 286/98 art. 5, 24, and 26 and DPCM flow 2008.