SIMPLE Codice Fiscale question
 

Hello everyone,
I must first say how impressed I am by this forum and grateful to all who contribute!

I have read all the posts dealing with the Codice Fiscale and haven't found the answer. My question is as follows:

Do I need a registered residence to get the codice fiscale or is a passport and unregistered address enough?

I've been here, Rome, nearly a month. I was told by a friend to avoid bureaucracy until I am sure about staying (I'm giving it a go and loving it so far). I need a CF for something this week so I'm willing to spend a morning at the Agenzia della Entrate (wanted to go today but realized it was a holiday just before I left the house. lucky me!).

The question is, in other words:
Can I just give them my address in Rome on the form without it being registered at the Anagrafe? Does one depend on the other?

grazie mille!
Jim

Re: SIMPLE Codice Fiscale question
 

just your passport and a photocopy is enough. And the completed green form, Thats it.

Re: SIMPLE Codice Fiscale question
 

Green?

In any event, i'll give it a go and post to let you know :)

thank you!

Re: SIMPLE Codice Fiscale question
 

Hi Everyone,

Just a passport, photocopy of the passport, and the form were indeed enough. I wrote down the address but was not asked for registration documents.

THANK YOU!
Jim

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Jim, make sure they give the actual card/piece of paper or whatever it is that says this is your codice fiscale. I got my codice 4 years ago and they never gave me any physical proof of it, just wrote the number on a piece of paper.

Yesterday I at the local post office I was told I couldn't apply for a PostePay carta without that damn official thing that says 'this is my codice fiscale'.

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That sounds odd. I was given a paper codice fiscale immediately and then got a plastic one later.

Go to your "agenzia delle entrate" office and just tell them you need one.

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I've used a CF written on a scrap of paper for 6 years without a problem. The official paper is filed away somewhere and would take forever to dig out. I never recieved a plastic card. Did you have to ask for a card?

Scratcher

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My Italian OH always had the piece of paper one and was slightly peeved when I got a plastic one and so did the kids. Ok, so the kids were born years after him and the issue of a plastic one had become automatic. I initially had a paper one too and so did our daughter, but one day a plastic one arrived for me and her. It never did for the OH and that's why he was peeved - he's the 'real' Italian after all. :eek::lol:

He went to the offices and told them that his paper card had become scrappy and the ink almost invisible after years of being in his wallet - and they sent him a plastic one to his home address.

Give it a go. Tell them you've lost it. Tell them it fell to bits in the washing machine. A replacement should be free. If you can't memorise your CF then plastic is easy enough to keep in a purse or wallet. I know mine off by heart now as I've had to write it out SO many times. No way have I memorised the kids' or the OH's though.