Visa Options How to Join Partner Long Term Unmarried

Hello All,

Recently my girlfriend was offered a job working with the UN in Rome. She left a couple of days ago to pursue this long term dream, We have been together for about 3 years and are considered domestic partners here in the U.S. as we own a house together, live together, and share bank accounts together. I have done quite a bit of research and unfortunately I am not eligibility to be attached to her work visa as we are unmarried and Italy does not recognize domestic partners to my understanding. While I am currently looking and applying for jobs in the Roma area that will support a work permit. Jobs are very limited within the truck repair / maintenance industry making progress very slow.

I have reached out to the local Italian consulate in Denver, Colorado as well as Chicago, Illinois where I am repeatedly told to look at the Italian / EU immigration website, where no information is available with these set of circumstances.

Has anyone ever ran into this complication or have any advise / options available.