Italy

Documents needing an apostille (Indian authorities):

• The bachelor's, master's or doctorate degree relied on to meet the highly qualified test. The Consulate General in Bengaluru's digital nomad checklist requires the qualification to be 'certified through Declaration of Value or CIMEA', and states that documentation issued by authorities outside the European Union 'must be duly attested and apostilled and accompanied by a translation into Italian, duly attested by the Italian authorities'.
• The academic transcript or marksheets. Where the Declaration of Value route is used, the New Delhi Embassy requires the original transcript with HRD authentication and apostille alongside the degree.
• The attestation from the competent Italian authority for a regulated profession under Legislative Decree 206/2007 (architects, engineers, teachers and the rest of the list on impresainungiorno.gov.it). This is point b) of the Bengaluru checklist, and it falls inside the same apostille-and-translation sentence.
• Where the highly qualified test is met by three years of ICT experience within the last seven under ISCO-08 groups 133 and 25: the evidence of that qualification. This is point d) of the Bengaluru checklist and is named in the apostille-and-translation sentence.
• A 'one and the same' certificate from the Tehsildhar where the applicant's name is spelled differently across the degree, transcript and passport. The New Delhi Embassy requires this for a Declaration of Value, and it is a common Indian document problem rather than a generic one.
• Note the gap: the Bengaluru checklist ties the apostille requirement to points a), b) and d) only. Point c), the five-years-of-experience route, instead asks for documents 'released by the Public Authority of the country where the expertise was acquired' plus contracts, payslips and an employer letter, without naming the apostille. Treat the apostille as expected there too rather than sourced.