r/AmericansinItaly

Hi all,

Can someone advise if in Italy it’s a quick process of obtaining the Pet Passport?

The situation:

We live in Switzerland and want to buy a cat in Milan. The cat is 10 weeks old. It has some vaccinations but not rabies. No chip and no passport. Can the owner (Italian resident) go to the vet, do the microchip and rabies vaccine if required (by Swiss rules cats before 12 weeks can be imported without the rabies vaccination) in order to obtain the EU Pet Passport?

The main question is: even if the owner does the rabies vaccine today can they get the EU passport today or within a few days or we will have to wait 21 days to get the passport?

Thank you!

Hi all- been doing this a few years now with success. If anyone needs anything from the US let me know via DM. I'll be arriving on Sept. 15th. I always have some spare space in my checked in bag for a few things.

It works like this: you order things from <wherever> and ship to me. I bring it in my suitcase and then I go to Poste and send it to you. Simples! Before I send it to you, I show you a copy of the Poste receipt & you do a bonifico to me for the items and shipping. I've offered this for about the past 5 years. If you want to order it here in the US and ship to me or ask me to order it for you, then that's OK too as long as you send me a bonifico for it.

No illegal things, no breakable things and nothing large please. DMs only unless you need to ask questions then go right ahead and reply here.

I will be living in Italy for a year and my boyfriend and I want to send letters back to the US. I was in Italy recently for about a month and sent a letter to the US, but it still hasn’t arrived a month and a half later. I saw you can use shipping services like fedex but it seems it would be really costly even for just a paper letter. Any suggestions would be appreciated.