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Bahrain

No remote-work visa; tourist eVisa or self-sponsored residency

PR: Indirectno programmeUTC+3

No dedicated nomad visa. The figures below describe what the row records; there may be nothing to apply for right now. Always check the official page before acting.

The requirements

Programme status
No dedicated nomad visa
Minimum monthly income
No income minimum
Required savings
None
Annual total
No minimum
Initial duration
eVisa up to 90 days
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
Yes

Self-sponsor residency needs BHD 500/month (~USD 1,327).

How this figure is set: A fixed amount set in law or on the official page. The wording on the source is: 500. Formula: Self-Sponsorship Residence Permit: 'Evidence of a stable income of 500 BHD or more' per month (retiree/self-sponsor route); Golden Residency: BHD 2,000/month salary (5+ yrs resident), retiree pension BHD 4,000/month, property BHD 200,000 (reported reduced to 130,000 in late 2025).

Income confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: NPRA service 'Self-Sponsorship Residence Permit and Re-entry Visa' (services.bahrain.bh esID=2020).

Does this lead to permanent residence?

Indirect pathway. No PR/citizenship track; Golden Residency is a renewable 10-yr ceiling, not time-accrued.

NPRA (Ministry of Interior) eService page for 'Residency Issuance Request' (services.bahrain.bh, esID=2020) lists Golden Residency for Employees/Retirees, Talented Individuals, Retired Non-Residents, and Self-Sponsorship for Retired Foreigners as the available long-term routes; all are described as 10-year renewable permits with no mention of citizenship or a formal permanent-residence status. Bahrain has no general naturalisation-style PR track for ordinary expatriates -- this is stated directly on the official page, not inferred.

Pathway confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Manama sits at 26.23° N, 50.59° E.

Bahrain picked out on a world map

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Time zone

  • UTC+3 Bahrain (Asia/Bahrain)

The country

Region
Middle East · Gulf
Capital
Manama
Currency
BHD

Nearest

The countries covered here whose capitals are closest to Manama.

What it costs to live there

$980 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Bahrain spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.

Manama
$1,933 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,077

City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.

Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20
World Bank national accounts, reference year 2024: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL) and by twelve. This is what one resident spends in an average month with housing included, since national accounts count the imputed rent of owner-occupiers. It is an average over the whole population, not a visitor's budget, so a newly arrived remote worker renting at market rates will spend more - see the city figures for what that looks like.

Languages

  • Arabic official
  • Malayalam limited

Shares of the population from Unicode CLDR: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the country, an eighth, or a fiftieth. It answers "will I be understood", not "how good is their English".

How to apply

There is no live application for Bahrain in this dataset. What the row records about residence: No PR/citizenship track; Golden Residency is a renewable 10-yr ceiling, not time-accrued.

Bahrain eVisa portal ↗

No DNV; 0% personal income tax.

A starting point, not advice. Figures are converted to US dollars at open-market rates; official thresholds are set in local currency. Sources: official source ↗. Data checked . Compiled by .