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Curaçao

@HOME in Curaçao

PR: NoUTC−4

The requirements

Programme status
Open, accepting applications
Minimum monthly income
No fixed amount
Required savings
None
Annual total
No fixed amount
Initial duration
6 months + 6-month extension
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
Yes

No fixed minimum; prove self-support.

How this figure is set: The law asks for "sufficient means" and sets no figure. Formula: No salary threshold; prove remote employment/business and ability to support yourself.

Income confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: @HOME in Curacao programme conditions (Curacao Tourist Board / Government of Curacao); Landsbesluit not located.

Does this lead to permanent residence?

No pathway. Programme's own FAQ: holders 'will not become a resident'; PR needs 10 yrs.

athomeincuracao.com's own FAQ explicitly states remote workers/hibernators on the programme 'will not become a resident of Curaçao' -- the clearest first-party statement found in this batch, direct from the programme's own page. Curaçao's April 2026 immigration reform sets the ordinary PR route at 10 years continuous lawful residence, per the Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor (read via search snippet only; direct fetch returned HTTP 403) and corroborated by HBN Law & Tax; the underlying ordinance/Landsbesluit text itself was not reached.

Pathway confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Willemstad sits at 12.11° N, 68.93° W.

Curaçao picked out on a world map

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Time zone

  • UTC−4 Curacao (America/Curacao)

The country

Region
Americas · Caribbean
Capital
Willemstad
Currency
XCG

Nearest

The countries covered here whose capitals are closest to Willemstad.

What it costs to live there

$1,190 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Curaçao 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 2018: 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

  • Papiamento official
  • Dutch official
  • Spanish 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.
  2. Gather what the official page asks for. Expect proof of income, a passport, health insurance and a criminal-record check as the common core.
  3. Apply through the route the official page names.Checked 2026-09-12
    Checked 2026-09-12: the page this row cites is itself the application portal, not a description of one, and it is the Curaçao Admissions Office that decides. Fees are paid to an account of the Ministry of Finance, which is how the portal shows itself to be the government's. No second step: each applicant files their own, and the office states that a broker cannot sign on your behalf.
  4. Pay the filing fee. It is $294. ANG 535 per application for a remote worker, about USD 294, paid to an account of the Ministry of Finance. One application per person - the office will not accept a broker signing for you.@HOME in Curaçao FAQ ↗ · 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.

@HOME in Curaçao portal ↗

Fee ~USD 300 per applicant. No Curaçao income tax. ~2 weeks.

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 .