What nationalities are currently banned from applying for Italy’s Investor’s Visa program?

For the time being, Italy has not introduced any ban in the investor visa program, although the European Council has partially suspended the agreement on the facilitation of visa issuance for certain types of visas. Russian diplomats, Russian officials and Russian business people who previously qualified for the visa facilitation will no longer benefit from special processing and must now follow the standard procedures when applying for a short-term Schengen visa.

For the time being, Italy has not introduced any ban in the investor visa program, although the European Council has partially suspended the agreement on the facilitation of visa issuance for certain types of visas. Russian diplomats, Russian officials and Russian business people who previously qualified for the visa facilitation will no longer benefit from special processing and must now follow the standard procedures when applying for a short-term Schengen visa.