I got a visa to go to Italy from the US, a lot of paper work and expense, supposedly gave me extended leave to stay, which was also done incorrectly, as we found out from Alessandro, it gave me no more than the usual 90 days anybody gets with a US passport. My husband has UK citizenship through his father, so once we arrived we at first sought the family of an eu citizen type residency for me. Well, they could not seem to get their heads around that at the time so alessandro had my husband just go with the EU citiizen of the UK residency status, unfortunately, because he had not resided in UK he could not ever apply for any health care in italy, we were told he was obligated to get private italian health insurance. Then I was admitted to Italy as an elective resident with retirement funds. Like I mentioned the complications were nearly endless and the paper work and little fees here and there amazing. Whats more my fingerprints were so light they had to redo them a few times, they said at the police station that I must have not used rubber gloves for doing house work and the chemicals had made my figerprints weak. Italy was a lot of fun, we may still have to go back if BRexit does not give us freedom of movement in europe I guess! Again, all the best, slow but sure, one foot in front of the other, all things are possible.