Decreto Flussi 2027: Click Day Dates & Quotas

Italy’s Next Click Day Is in January — But the Applications That Win It Are Built in October

Italy will open around 165,850 legal work places to non-EU nationals in 2027. The applications are submitted on four fixed mornings in January and February. And by the time those mornings arrive, the outcome is largely already decided — because the forms are prepared weeks earlier, and the employers who prepared badly lose their place in seconds.

If you are waiting for “click day news” before doing anything, you are watching the wrong date.

The short answer

What is Decreto Flussi 2027? It is Italy’s annual quota for legal entry of non-EU workers, set at 165,850 places for 2027 under the 2026–2028 three-year decree. Applications open on four click days — 12 January, 9 February, 16 February and 18 February — with online pre-registration in the preceding months.

The numbers for 2027

The Ministry of the Interior confirmed that the decree provides 497,550 places across the 2026–2028 period: 164,850 for 2026, 165,850 for 2027 and 166,850 for 2028. The measure was published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale on 15 October, setting the total entries for subordinate, self-employed and seasonal work, along with the rules for converting certain existing residence permits into work permits.

Within those totals, non-seasonal subordinate and self-employed work accounts for 76,850 places in each year — 76,200 for subordinate work and 650 for self-employment.

2027 allocation	Places
Total entries	165,850
Non-seasonal subordinate work	76,200
Self-employment	650
Domestic care (colf e badanti)	14,000
Cooperation-agreement countries (non-seasonal)	26,000
Multi-year seasonal nulla osta reserve	6,000
Refugees and stateless persons	320

Quotas for countries signing new cooperation agreements rise across the period — 18,000 in 2026, 26,000 in 2027 and 34,000 in 2028 — while the family-assistance allocation moves from 13,600 to 14,000 and then 14,200. Multi-year seasonal authorisations, reserved for people who have already worked in Italy at least once in the previous five years, rise from 5,000 to 6,000 and then 7,000.

The direction matters more than any single figure: Italy is expanding, not contracting, at a moment when the UK, Canada and Korea are all cutting. That makes it one of the few genuinely widening legal routes available to trades workers right now.

The four click days

Applications can be submitted from 12 January for seasonal agricultural workers, 9 February for seasonal tourism workers, 16 February for non-seasonal subordinate workers, and 18 February for domestic workers and carers. All openings are at 9:00 a.m.

Those dates are set by the decree for each year of the three-year cycle, so the 2027 sequence runs on the same calendar. Note which one is yours — a construction, logistics or hospitality job is a non-seasonal application and belongs to the February date, not the January agricultural one. Applying on the wrong day is a wasted year.

The date that actually decides it

Here is the part almost every English-language page skips.

Click day is not an application window. It is a submission race, decided in the order applications arrive, running until the quota is exhausted. The form itself is prepared beforehand, on a government portal, during a separate pre-registration period.

For the 2026 cycle, pre-compilation of the applications on the ALI portal ran from 09:00 on 23 October 2025 until 20:00 on 7 December 2025, available every day of the week including holidays. Access requires a SPID digital identity or a CIE electronic ID card.

The 2027 pre-registration dates had not been published at the time of writing. But the shape of the cycle is now established: the portal opens in autumn, roughly two to three months before the January click day. If your employer starts thinking about paperwork in January, they are already too late — the fastest submissions come from forms that were completed, checked and saved weeks earlier.

What this means practically, in August: the useful work available to you right now is finding a real Italian employer and getting your documents into a state where they can be typed into a form in October. Not refreshing news sites in January.

Which sectors are open

The decree widened the eligible sectors considerably. They now include agriculture, forestry and fishing; food, beverage and tobacco; textiles, clothing and footwear; metallurgy and metal products; construction; wholesale and retail trade; accommodation and catering; tourism; transport, logistics and warehousing; business and personal support services; healthcare, social assistance and private health services; and other services, all defined by ATECO 2025 codes.

For this site’s readers, the operative words are construction, logistics and transport — three sectors that barely featured in older versions of the decree and now carry real allocations.

The extra step for Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Moroccan applicants

This is the single most important paragraph in this article for our readers, and it appears almost nowhere in English.

For work applications concerning workers from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Morocco, the issuing of the nulla osta by the Sportello Unico per l’Immigrazione is always subject to a favourable opinion from the competent Questura, in addition to the preliminary verification by the National Labour Inspectorate, carried out with the Revenue Agency and, for agriculture, with AGEA.

Read that carefully, because it changes your planning in three ways.

One: your file gets an additional review that most nationalities do not receive. Being inside the quota is not the end of the process for you.

Two: your timeline is longer. Build the extra review step into every expectation you set with family, lenders or anyone you are borrowing money from.

Three: document consistency is not optional. An extra reviewing authority means more opportunities for an inconsistency to surface. Name spelling across passport, contract and forms, employer details, job title matching the declared sector — all of it must agree exactly.

There is also a hard expiry rule worth knowing. Applications that have not entered the quota by 30 June 2027, or authorisations not followed by the issue of an entry visa by that same date, lapse and are archived automatically. Being “in the system” is not a permanent position.

You cannot apply for yourself — and that is where the scams live

The application under this decree is filed by an Italian employer, not by you. There is no worker-side form, no personal registration, no queue you can join from Pakistan.

Which means every one of the following is a warning sign:

• Anyone offering to “register you for click day” for a fee.
• Anyone selling a “guaranteed quota place” or a “reserved slot.”
• Anyone asking for money before you have seen a named employer, a company address and a contract.
• Anyone who will not tell you which of the four click days your application belongs to.
• Anyone promising a nulla osta by a specific date.

A legitimate route looks different: a real employer, in a named sector, who is prepared to do the pre-compilation themselves or through a licensed Italian professional or employers’ association, and who can tell you exactly which quota line they are applying under.

If you are going through a recruitment agency in Pakistan, verify its licence with the Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment before any money changes hands, and insist on seeing the employer’s details in writing.

What happens after click day

Two things worth understanding, because they explain delays that would otherwise look like something has gone wrong.

The territorial distribution of quotas is carried out after click day by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies. Under the new approach, the Ministry divides quotas by province within ten days of the application deadline, with the aim of matching local labour needs more closely to the permits granted.

So a successful click-day submission is followed by a provincial allocation step, then the Sportello Unico process, then — for our readers — the Questura opinion, then the visa application at the Italian mission. Each stage takes time. None of it is a sign of failure.

Applications that miss the quota remain on file until the end of the year, which simplifies re-submission when places reopen.

Your realistic timeline from here

• August–September 2026: find a genuine employer; assemble passport, qualifications, work certificates and any trade certification. Fix name-spelling inconsistencies now, not later.
• October–December 2026: the pre-compilation window is expected to open. Your employer completes and saves the form on the ALI portal. Confirm they have done it.
• 12 January / 9 / 16 / 18 February 2027: click day for your category, at 9:00 a.m. Italian time.
• Within ten days of the deadline: provincial quota allocation.
• After that: INL verification, Questura opinion, nulla osta, then the visa application.
• 30 June 2027: the hard expiry point for applications that never entered quota and for authorisations without a visa.

Key Takeaways

• Italy will open around 165,850 places in 2027, including 76,200 for non-seasonal subordinate work.
• Four click days: 12 January (seasonal agriculture), 9 February (seasonal tourism), 16 February (non-seasonal), 18 February (domestic care) — all at 9:00 a.m.
• The real preparation window is the autumn pre-compilation period on the ALI portal, which ran 23 October to 7 December in the previous cycle.
• Construction, logistics and transport now carry real allocations alongside agriculture and tourism.
• Workers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Morocco face an additional mandatory Questura opinion before the nulla osta is issued.
• Applications not in quota by 30 June 2027 lapse and are archived.
• Only an Italian employer can file. Anyone selling you a personal click-day registration is selling nothing.

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