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Belize

Work Where You Vacation

PR: NoUTC−6

The requirements

Programme status
Open, accepting applications
Minimum monthly income
$6,250 a month
Required savings
None
Annual total
$75,000
Initial duration
Up to 180 days, renewable
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
Yes

USD 75,000/year single; 100,000 couples/families.

How this figure is set: A fixed amount set in law or on the official page. The wording on the source is: 75000. Formula: USD 75,000/yr individual; USD 100,000 couples/families.

Income confidence: low · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Belize Tourism Board 'Work Where You Vacation' programme (no primary legislation found).

Does this lead to permanent residence?

No pathway. Tourism-stay product, absent from Immigration Dept's residence categories.

Immigration Department (immigration.gov.bz) has no page or status type for 'Work Where You Vacation' anywhere in its Passport/Residence/Permits taxonomy; WWYV is a Belize Tourism Board product (travelbelize.org: 180 days, income proof, work-permit waiver) with no stated immigration status. immigration.gov.bz's own residence-qualify page states PR requires 1 year of legal residence under a recognised status, and WWYV is not among them. No explicit 'does not count' sentence was found — the conclusion rests on WWYV's structural absence from the residence taxonomy, which is indirect evidence.

Pathway confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Belmopan sits at 17.25° N, 88.77° W.

Belize picked out on a world map

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Time zone

  • UTC−6 Belize (America/Belize)

The country

Region
Americas · Central America
Capital
Belmopan
Currency
BZD

Next door

Belize shares a land border with these.

What it costs to live there

$406 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Belize 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.

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

  • English official
  • Spanish widely spoken
  • Belizean Creole widely spoken
  • Qʼeqchiʼ limited
  • Mopan Maya 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

  1. Check you clear the requirements above — $6,250 a month is the figure this row records.
  2. Gather what the official page asks for:
    • Show proof of employment outside of Belize (min annual income of USD $75,000 for individuals, USD $100,000 for couples/families)
    • Share a notarized banking reference and statement of account
    • Supply a clear criminal record (no more than 6 months old)
    • Possess a valid passport
    • Carry a travel insurance policy (min. US $50,000 coverage)
    Documents confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-08
    Belize Tourism Board's Work Where You Vacation page (travelbelize.org), which states these as eligibility requirements rather than as a document checklist. Graded medium for that reason: they are the things you must produce, but the page does not present them as the submission list.
  3. Apply in this order — the ministry page above describes the permit, these are where it is submitted:
    1. IIS Connect, Belize Immigration Department ↗Apply for the long-stay permit online and wait for approval before you travel. The tourism site that markets the programme does not take the application; this does.
    Portals checked 2026-09-12
    The page this row cites is the Belize Tourism Board's, which markets the programme and names the Immigration Department's own system as where it is applied for. Recorded because a reader following the marketing link alone never reaches a form. The department's information page (immigration.gov.bz/permits/long-stay-permit/) refuses automated requests, so the portal itself is linked instead.
  4. Pay the filing fee. It is $250. BZD 500 per adult and BZD 200 per child under 18, and it is paid at the airport on arrival rather than with the application. The Belize dollar is pegged at 2 to the US dollar, so that is about USD 250 a head.Work Where You Vacation, Belize Tourism Board ↗ · checked 2026-09-12
  5. Sort out where you will stay for the first stretch. Airlines check this at the desk and will not board you without it, whatever your visa says —what counts as proof of accommodation.
  6. Verify every figure on the official page before you spend money. Thresholds are set in local currency and move every year.

Belize Tourism Board ↗

Fee BZD 500/adult; USD 50,000 travel insurance; foreign income untaxed.

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 .