Digital nomad visa: all countries and requirements

What a digital nomad visa is

A digital nomad visa lets you live in a country while working remotely for an employer or clients outside it. The state gains a tenant and a shopper with a foreign salary, and you get legal status for a year or two instead of 90 tourist days.

Working for a local employer on this status is almost never allowed. The income has to come from abroad, and the consulate checks it against statements and contracts, not your word.

How much income you need for a digital nomad visa

The choice starts with three numbers rather than a country: monthly income, family size and how many years you are ready to stay put. The finder at the top of the page weighs them in a minute.

• Income under $1,500. Uruguay and Argentina set no threshold, and Georgia lets you stay a year without a visa.
• $1,500-3,000. Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia for tech roles, Italy and Costa Rica.
• $3,000-4,500. Europe opens up: Spain, Croatia, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
• From $5,000. Indonesia and Romania join in, Romania with the highest threshold in the table at about $5,790.

The threshold is only the first filter. Italy wants a degree and six months of remote work, Czechia takes citizens of just 13 countries, and Croatia gives 18 months at most, extension included. Salary opens the door; paperwork decides the rest.

Iceland abolished its remote work visa in May 2026, so it is not in the finder.

Digital nomad visas for Russian citizens

Four of the 30 programmes are closed to Russian citizens. Estonia does not issue them visas, Malta does not accept applications from Russian and Belarusian citizens, and Czechia and Japan only take citizens on their own lists. The other 26 do not exclude Russian citizenship.

If Russian is not your only citizenship, we check before filing whether the programme counts all your passports: Czechia, for example, also turns away Russians who hold a US passport. The nomad visa matcher picks the one of the 26 open programmes that fits your income.

A Russian employer is a separate story. Since 2024 the salary of a remote employee of a Russian company is taxed in Russia at 13-15% wherever the employee lives. Spain or Portugal may tax the same salary again, and Russia suspended its tax treaties with them in 2023 by Decree No. 585.

Run the double-tax numbers before the move, not after the first tax return. Ask an expert how it works in your country.

Which digital nomad visas lead to permanent residency

Most nomad visas are a dead end: a year or two by the sea, then back to the start of the queue. The years count towards permanent residency in Spain, Portugal and Italy after 5 years, in Mexico after 4 years of temporary residence and in Ecuador after 21 months.

In Croatia, Costa Rica, Uruguay and the UAE the nomad status does not lead to permanent residency. Staying on means switching to other grounds: not a disaster, just a second set of documents.

How much a digital nomad visa costs

Government fees for the whole route to the first status run from zero to $2,000 per person. It is free in Georgia, where no visa is needed, and in Mauritius. The Caribbean is the priciest: Barbados charges $2,000. The figure for each country is in the table above.

Translations, apostilles, insurance and mistakes cost more than the fees. The law does not stop you from applying on your own, but a statement for the wrong period or income that drops below the threshold after currency conversion, and the consulate refuses and keeps the fee.

Murblz support removes these risks: we check your income and documents before filing and see the application through to a decision. We guarantee professional work and a transparent process, and in most cases a result on the first application. A manager will calculate the support fee in the chat.

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