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Hi Abby I left another reiy below. I suggested a couple who have extensive house sitting experience who might be able to help you focus on some other places to look. Here is her addess: terry_coles@yahoo.com Chip Stites, IL Italy Correspondent.

Hi Chip.
I am a dual US/Italian citizen living half the year in our house in my ancestral hometown in bella Sicilia and half in our house in Tucson, Arizona. I speak Italian, French and Spanish and am retired but my husband (who speaks Spanish and is learning Italian) is not so we arent ready to sell the Tucson property and move permanently abroad. This background to explain that we're not beginners when it comes to msking our way through Italian bureaucracy and I'm not finding a lit beyond the very basics in IL to hrlp us prepare for the next phase of leaving the US for good. I thought the Bootcamp seminar sounded good but unfortunately its not online and we aren't going to Las Vegas.
In sum, Im hoping you might be the person to offer the "beyond the basics" information we are looking for to prepare for the fulltime European life we envision that invludes a homebase, msybe a second rustic getaway and travel.
First, although I am in the Italian healthcare sustem, my husband is not yet an Italian citizen so what health insurance options would he have here? Health insurance with his current job in the IS is one of the reasons he hasnt retired yet and a concern even when he is here on vacation.
Thank yoh do much and I look forward to hearing from you.
Christine Conte

As far as an easy way to get a VISA I don't know of an easy way, but there is a way. i would have you take your question to mgrazia.colombo@leexe.it and ask her. I know she has access to people who can help you get this done, and she can help you herself. I did this myself with no legal help. You need to locate your Consulate first as you will work through them for the VISA. Let me know if I can be of further service. Chip Stites, IL Italy Correspondent.