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Namibia

Digital Nomad Visa

PR: IndirectUTC+2

The requirements

Programme status
Open, accepting applications
Minimum monthly income
$2,000 a month
Required savings
None
Annual total
$24,000
Initial duration
6 months, non-renewable
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
Yes

USD 2,000/month (+1,000 spouse, +500/child).

How this figure is set: A fixed amount set in law or on the official page. The wording on the source is: USD 2,000/month (+USD 1,000 spouse, +USD 500 per child).

Income confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: NIPDB (Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board, Office of the President) Digital Nomad Visa page.

Does this lead to permanent residence?

Indirect pathway. PR isn't years-based in law; visitor-permit holders may apply, but 6-mo cap makes it impractical.

Immigration Control Act 7 of 1993 (fetched full text via lac.org.na, the Legal Assistance Centre's official statute archive). Section 26 permanent residence has NO time-served requirement at all for any permit class -- the Immigration Board grants it on discretionary good-character/means/assimilation criteria (s.26(3)(a)-(g)), not years of prior residence. Critically, s.26(6) explicitly names a person holding a visitor's entry permit issued under s.29 -- the general-purpose short-stay permit category the Digital Nomad Visa operationally falls under -- among those the Board may authorize to apply for permanent residence from within Namibia, on the same footing as employment- or student-permit holders. NIPDB's own Digital Nomad Visa page (nipdb.com) is silent on PR entirely and does not cite the Act section under which the visa is issued (it is described only as MHAISS issuing 'a loose entry visa'), so the specific instrument-to-section mapping is inference from the Act's general visitor-permit framework, not an explicit statement tying the Digital Nomad Visa itself to s.29 or s.26(6). Applied as an owner decision on 8 Sep 2026, going the other way from CLAUDE.md rule 8's narrow reading: Namibian PR turns on discretionary character and means rather than years served, which the narrow rule would score as No. The 6-month non-renewable term and the ban on local income also make it impractical in fact.

Pathway confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Windhoek sits at 22.56° S, 17.08° E.

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Time zone

  • UTC+2 Windhoek (Africa/Windhoek)

The country

Region
Africa · Southern Africa
Capital
Windhoek
Currency
NAD

Next door

1 of the 4 countries Namibia shares a land border with is covered here.

What it costs to live there

$318 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Namibia 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 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

  • English official
  • Afrikaans widely spoken
  • Kuanyama widely spoken
  • Ndonga common in cities
  • Nama common in cities

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".

Who can apply

Kinds of work covered
employee, freelancer, business owner

Eligibility confidence: high · checked 2026-09-08
NIPDB digital nomad visa page: applicants must be 'Freelancers, self-employed professionals or remote employees' and 'Work remotely for companies or clients based outside Namibia'.

How to apply

  1. Check you clear the requirements above — $2,000 a month is the figure this row records.
  2. Gather what the official page asks for:
    • Completion of visa application form (3-1/0033) signed by applicant
    • Accompanied dependent must complete a separate application form (3-1/0033)
    • Medical Certificate (3-1/0003)
    • Radiological Report (3-1/0004)
    • Supporting Documents
    • Certified copy of passport and/or legal status if in Namibia
    • Proof of Medical Insurance and/or comprehensive travel insurance
    • Motivation letter from NIPDB (letter to be submitted directly by NIPDB to MHAISS with application forms and supporting documents)
    • Proof of Income/funds (payslip or employment contract) to sustain yourself and dependants
    • 6 Month Bank Statement
    • Applicable fees: N$3 300 required upon approval
    • Motivation letter from Employer
    • Copies of qualifications
    • Original, notarised or certified copy of Police Clearance from country of origin (translated into English)
    Documents confidence: high · checked 2026-09-08
    Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board digital nomad visa page (nipdb.com), which lists the forms and attachments. Wording is the page's own.
  3. Apply online through the official portal.
  4. Pay the filing fee. It is $180. NAD 3,300, stated on the programme's own page and described there as excluding other expenses. The Namibian dollar is pegged one-to-one with the rand, so that is roughly USD 180 at current rates.Namibia Digital Nomad Visa, NIPDB ↗ · 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.

NIPDB visa page ↗

Apply via NIPDB; fee NAD 3,300; medical and police clearance.

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 .