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Greece

Digital Nomad Visa (Type D)

PR: IndirectUTC+3

The requirements

Programme status
Open, accepting applications
Minimum monthly income
$3,850 a month
Required savings
None
Annual total
$46,200
Initial duration
1 year, convertible to 2-year permit
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
No, in person or by post

€3,500/month net (+20% spouse, +15% child).

How this figure is set: A fixed amount set in law or on the official page. The wording on the source is: 3500. Formula: 3,500 EUR/month net; +20% for spouse/cohabitant, +15% per child.

Income confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Law 4825/2021 art. 11 (inserted the digital nomad visa into Law 4251/2014 art. 18); now carried into the Migration Code, Law 5038/2023.

Does this lead to permanent residence?

Indirect pathway. Unclear: nomad permit likely counts as excluded temporary residence, not confirmed.

Migration Code (Law 4251/2014) Art. 88(2)(e) and Art. 89(2) exclude residence periods held under 'temporary residence status' from the 5-year long-term-resident (επί μακρόν διαμένων) calculation. Law 4825/2021 art. 11, which created the digital nomad visa, inserted it into Art. 18, itself titled 'Temporary Residence' — suggestive that the permit is treated as excluded temporary residence, but this is INFERENCE, not a source naming digital nomads explicitly. Could not reach the current recodified text (Migration Code, Law 5038/2023) or confirm whether the follow-on 2-year residence permit keeps that 'temporary' framing; e-nomothesia.gr, kodiko.gr and mfa.gr were all unreachable during research.

Pathway confidence: low · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Athens sits at 37.98° N, 23.73° E.

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Time zone

  • UTC+3 Athens (Europe/Athens)

The country

Region
Europe · Southern Europe
Capital
Athens
Currency
EUR
Schengen area
Yes

Next door

Greece shares a land border with these.

Bulgaria is in the Schengen area, as Greece is. For a visitor that is one clock, not several: the 90 days in any 180 are spent across all of it.

What it costs to live there

$1,551 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Greece 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.

Athens
$1,404 / month incl. rent
of which rent $631
Thessaloniki
$1,124 / month incl. rent
of which rent $440

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 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

  • Greek official
  • English widely spoken
  • French limited
  • German limited
  • Pontic 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 — $3,850 a month is the figure this row records.
  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 and no government portal takes this application, which is the answer rather than a gap. The visa is filed in person at the Greek consulate for where you live; the MFA page the row cites describes it but submits nothing, and it refuses automated requests, so it can only be read in a browser. Three candidates were tested and none is the right door: applications.migration.gov.gr does not respond at all, migration.gov.gr/en/applications/ turns out to be the ministry’s asylum digitalisation page, and the gov.gr residence-permit service covers renewals by third-country nationals already holding a permit. Linking any of them as though it took a nomad application would be worse than linking nothing.
  4. 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.
  5. Verify every figure on the official page before you spend money. Thresholds are set in local currency and move every year.

MFA nomad visa page ↗

Consulate-only since Feb 2026; 50% tax relief 7 yrs.

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 .