The requirements
- Programme status
- Open, accepting applications
- Minimum monthly income
- $1,400 a month
- Required savings
- None
- Annual total
- $16,800
- Initial duration
- Up to 2 years, renewable
- Family allowed
- Yes
- Apply online
- Yes
3x minimum wage: COP 5.25M/month (2026).
How this figure is set: A formula in law, so the amount moves when its base moves. The wording on the source is: 5252715
. Formula: 3 x salario minimo legal mensual vigente over the last 3 months; SMLMV 2026 = COP 1,750,905 (secondary: Wikipedia; decree not fetched).
Income confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Resolucion 5477 de 2022 (MinRelaciones Exteriores), art. 46 num. 4 and art. 30 num. 4.
Does this lead to permanent residence?
No pathway. V-visa time excluded; only M-visa years count toward Visa R (2-5 yrs).
Resolución 5477 de 2022 (Cancillería) art 22 lists Nómada Digital as Visa V category 14. Art 90 'Visa R por tiempo acumulado' (as modified by art 76 of Resolución 10434 de 2023, read as consolidated text via SUIN Juriscol, the official legal database, after cancilleria.gov.co returned 403) scopes eligibility explicitly to holders of Visa Migrante (M), with 2-5 yrs required depending on M subcategory. No V-type visa appears in that table, so V Nómada Digital time is directly excluded, not inferred.
Pathway confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07
Where it is
Bogotá sits at 4.71° N, 74.07° W.
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Time zone
- UTC−5 Bogota (America/Bogota)
The country
- Region
- Americas · South America
- Capital
- Bogotá
- Currency
- COP
Next door
4 of the 5 countries Colombia shares a land border with are covered here.
What it costs to live there
$522 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Colombia 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.
- Bogotá
- $829 / month incl. rent
of which rent $417 - Medellin
- $780 / month incl. rent
of which rent $357
City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.
Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20World Bank national accounts, reference year 2025: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) 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
- Spanish official
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".
Where you apply from
Filed online, from anywhere. No mission appointment.
Study, processing and issuance are entirely virtual. There is no consulate appointment, so where you are when you apply does not change the route or the price.
Where you apply confidence: high · checked 2026-09-19Read 2026-09-19 from the SITAC page this row cites in apply_steps (verified 2026-09-12), which states the process is entirely virtual with no consular appointment.
Say where you are now and this names your country.
How to apply
- Check you clear the requirements above — $1,400 a month is the figure this row records.
- 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 in this order — the ministry page above describes the permit, these are where it is submitted:
- Cancillería: Visitante — Nómada digital ↗Confirm this is the visa you want before you pay for it. It also answers the question that saves many people the whole exercise: if your passport does not need a visa for a short stay, you may simply enter and get an entry permit for 90 days, extendable to 180.
- SITAC: the visa application form ↗Study, processing and issuance are entirely virtual — there is no consulate appointment. Submitting the form and the scanned documents produces a reference number, and the clock that matters starts there: pay within 10 calendar days or the application lapses. The decision follows within 30 calendar days.
Checked 2026-09-12 against the Cancillería's own pages. Recorded mainly for the two deadlines nobody mentions — 10 calendar days to pay once the platform issues a reference number, 30 for the decision — and because for many nationalities the visa is not needed at all for a stay under 180 days. - Pay the filing fee. It is $239. Two charges, not one. USD 56 (or EUR 44) to have the application studied, payable whatever the outcome, and USD 183 to issue the visa if it is granted — USD 239 in all. The study fee is the one on the 10-day clock.Cancillería: visa costs ↗ · 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.
Threshold resets each January; each month must meet it.
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.