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

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

Green?

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

thank you!

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

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'.

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.

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

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.

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.