Click Days. When non-European citizens get regular contracts, via the Web

Monday, 31 January, is the first of the Click Days, which will guarantee regular contracts to about one hundred thousand non-European workers in Italy, in accordance with the new decree passed by the Cabinet.

There are three Click Days; Monday, 31 January is dedicated to 52,080 workers that have a “privileged” nationality, that is, they come from those countries that have signed cooperation agreements on migration with Italy, namely Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, the Philippines, Ghana, Morocco, Moldavia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, India, Peru, the Ukraine, Niger, Gambia, and others.

The second Click Day is Wednesday 2 February, beginning at 8 a.m., when applications for home helps not from the countries mentioned above can be sent (30,000 places are available). On the last Click Day, Thursday 3 January, 11,000 study permits, and permits for apprenticeships, and seasonal and other types of work, will be converted to residence permits for non-seasonal employment, and 4000 non-Europeans who have completed training programmes in their countries of origin will be admitted.

What to do: on visiting the website www.interno.it, the employer will find a page that will guide him through the various parts of the procedure, which should be followed entirely online. Furthermore, to ensure that the service works properly, from 7 a.m. on every Click Day, for two hours, the website will only accept applications, and will not be available for other operations.

The lists will follow the chronological order of receipt of the applications, the single Desk for immigration will issue a permit to the employer.