The requirements
- Programme status
- Open, accepting applications
- Minimum monthly income
- No income minimum
- Required savings
- $1,650
- Annual total
- $1,650
- Initial duration
- 6 months, renewable once
- Family allowed
- Yes
- Apply online
- Yes
No income test; €1,500 (single) / €2,700 (family) minimum AVERAGE bank balance over 6 months.
How this figure is set: No income test at all. The wording on the source is: 1500
. Formula: Minimum AVERAGE bank balance of EUR 1,500 (individual) / EUR 2,700 (family) over the last 6 months - a balance test, not a monthly-income test.
Income confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Programme rules published by Turismo de Cabo Verde (visit-caboverde.com); underlying resolution not located online.
Does this lead to permanent residence?
Indirect pathway. Temporary; PR needs 5 yrs on a standard residence permit (Lei 66/VIII/2014, Art.62).
Lei n.º 66/VIII/2014 (Regime Jurídico de Entrada, Permanência e Saída de Estrangeiros), Artigo 62.º, read from the official statute PDF hosted at sniac.cv, states permanent residence requires 5 years holding temporary residence authorization (3 if born in Cabo Verde). Corroborated by the AAI (Agência de Imigração) page aai.gov.cv on residence-authorization types. The Remote Working visa itself (Lei 27/X/2023, Decreto-Lei 13/2025) is capped at 6 months + one renewal per visit-caboverde.com, which is silent on PR; that the two tracks are structurally distinct and the nomad visa cannot itself accrue the 5-year clock is inference, not an explicit statutory statement.
Pathway confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07
Where it is
Praia sits at 14.93° N, 23.51° W.
Open in Google Maps ↗A map of Praia. This is the only link here that leaves the site.
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Time zone
- UTC−1 Cape Verde (Atlantic/Cape_Verde)
The country
- Region
- Africa · West Africa
- Capital
- Praia
- Currency
- CVE
Nearest
The countries covered here whose capitals are closest to Praia.
What it costs to live there
$344 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Cabo Verde spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.
Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20World Bank national accounts, reference year 2025: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) 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
- Portuguese official
- Kabuverdianu widely spoken
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
- Check you clear the requirements above.
- Gather what the official page asks for. Expect proof of income, a passport, health insurance and a criminal-record check as the common core.
- Apply through the route the official page names.Checked 2026-09-12
Checked 2026-09-12 and no government application portal was found. The programme's own official page routes the application to a third-party form and says you will be contacted by email about the next steps; there is no immigration-department system behind it that this row could verify. That is recorded rather than papered over: a form on a hosted service is not linked here as though it were a state portal, because the whole point of this field is telling the two apart. - Pay the filing fee. Two separate charges, which is why no single figure is given: EUR 20 a person for the visa, payable again on renewal, and an airport security fee of EUR 34 a person once on arrival.Remote Working Programme, official page ↗ · checked 2026-09-12
- 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.
- Verify every figure on the official page before you spend money. Thresholds are set in local currency and move every year.
Europe, North America, CPLP, ECOWAS nationals. €20 visa fee. Foreign income tax-exempt.
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 Junaid Qadir.