A year of your child's life is a big decision. Ask us anything.

Parents are welcome on every call. This page answers the questions they ask first.

The three questions every parent asks.

Who will be working with my child?
One mentor, from the first conversation until the day classes start, with the rest of the team behind them. Our mentors studied at Italy's leading universities and went through this process themselves as international students, so the advice comes from people who have sat the tests, filed the documents and lived the first year. We read the ministerial decrees and each university's call ourselves, and we keep our own record of every English-taught program, checked against the university's published rules. Parents are welcome in every call, and when a question comes up between calls you can reach your mentor on WhatsApp.
What exactly are we paying for?
Months of continuous work on one student's application. From the first call until classes start in October, a mentor works with your child continuously: the counselling on the degree, the shortlist, the test plan, every document checked and filed inside its window, the visa file, and the preparation for the move. Across a year that is hundreds of hours of checking, chasing and planning, and that is what you pay for. The list is written and agreed before the contract: which programs, how many applications, which entrance test, which documents, which deadlines, and whether tutoring is included. Nothing is added to the work or the invoice without your yes. You are also paying for care with your family's private papers: passports, school records and bank documents stay in our encrypted portal, open only to your family and the people working on your child's file. University tuition and fees, visa and embassy fees, translations, legalisation and apostille, travel and housing are never on our invoice. We tell you when each is due, and you pay it directly.
What if something goes wrong?
Universities decide admission and embassies decide visas. Nobody can promise either, and we never do. What we bring is experience of where applications go wrong: a document in the wrong format, a window missed by a day, a program that never fitted the student's results. Every application is checked complete, filed inside its window, and aimed at programs that fit. If a date moves, you hear it from us first. If a result disappoints, we tell you straight, and the same mentor goes through the options left for that year and the next.

The money the visa asks to see.

The Italian study visa asks for proof that the student can live on their own means for the first year. The ministry sets the figure each year, and we give it to you with its source. We tell you which documents count as proof, in what form, and how early to prepare them.

The visa, step by step

You will know where things stand.

Everything lives in the Learnium portal: the stages, the documents and the calendar in one place. Parents can ask for their own view of it, alongside the student's, and we update it as the application moves. Nothing about the application is hidden from the family that pays for it.

If your child is under eighteen.

A parent signs the contract and the consent forms, joins the calls, and holds the family's access to the application. Some universities and embassies ask for extra documents for minors. They go on the list from the first day.

Questions parents ask.

Learnium works online. Video calls are the way we meet, and parents join them whenever they wish, from the first call to the visa appointment.

Your mentor first, and the founder directly if it is not resolved. Both names and the team email address are on your contract.

We tell you as soon as the result is published. Then we go through the options left for that intake and the plan for the next one.

Bring your questions to the first call.

It is free, it is thirty minutes, and every question on this page is welcome again, on the call.

Photo: The Collegio Borromeo, Pavia, in evening light by FabioRomanoni (CC BY-SA 4.0). Via Wikimedia Commons.