Announced but never opened. The figures below describe what the row records; there may be nothing to apply for right now. Always check the official page before acting.
The requirements
- Programme status
- Announced but never opened
- Minimum monthly income
- No income minimum
- Required savings
- None
- Annual total
- No minimum
- Initial duration
- 90/180 visa-free or D visa
- Family allowed
- Not stated
- Apply online
- No, in person or by post
No published threshold.
How this figure is set: No income test at all. The wording on the source is: no published threshold (no programme)
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Income confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: none — MFA 'Types of entry visas' page.
Does this lead to permanent residence?
Indirect pathway. No DNV; ordinary temp-residence yrs count toward PR after 5 yrs (Law on Foreigners art.129).
MFA's mfa.gov.mk 'Types of entry visas' page confirms North Macedonia has no digital nomad visa (only A/C/D visa categories), matching the row's 'not launched' status. The current Law on Foreigners (Закон за странците), consolidated Official Gazette text via portal.mdt.gov.mk, Art. 129(1) states permanent residence (постојан престој) requires 5 years' continuous residence on approved temporary residence; Art. 129(3)-(4) lists grounds excluded from counting — seasonal/daily/posted workers, study, exchange programmes, specialization, volunteering, research, elder care, medical treatment, humanitarian grounds, protection applicants, and real-estate-based residence. Ordinary employment or general-purpose temporary residence — what a remote worker would hold absent a DNV — is not on that exclusion list, so it counts; read directly from the statute's own exhaustive negative list, not inferred from silence on a website.
Pathway confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07
Where it is
Skopje sits at 41.99° N, 21.43° E.
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Time zone
- UTC+2 Skopje (Europe/Skopje)
The country
- Region
- Europe · Balkans
- Capital
- Skopje
- Currency
- MKD
- Schengen area
- No
Next door
4 of the 5 countries North Macedonia shares a land border with are covered here.
What it costs to live there
$574 per person, per month. That is what one resident of North Macedonia 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.
- Skopje
- $738 / month incl. rent
of which rent $264 - Bitola
- $536 / month incl. rent
of which rent $167
City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.
Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20World Bank national accounts, reference year 2025: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) 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
- Macedonian official
- Albanian widely spoken
- Turkish 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
There is no live application for North Macedonia in this dataset. What the row records about residence: No DNV; ordinary temp-residence yrs count toward PR after 5 yrs (Law on Foreigners art.129).
Programme never launched; remote workers use visa-free stay.
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.