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Philippines

Digital Nomad Visa (EO 86, 2025)

PR: NoUTC+8

The requirements

Programme status
Open, accepting applications
Minimum monthly income
No fixed amount
Required savings
None
Annual total
No fixed amount
Initial duration
12 months, renewable once
Family allowed
Not stated
Apply online
No, in person or by post

No statutory threshold; ~USD 24,000/year cited as practical.

How this figure is set: The law asks for "sufficient means" and sets no figure. The wording on the source is: EO 86 requires 'sufficient income generated outside the Philippines' — no figure; ~USD 24,000/yr is a consultancy benchmark only.

Income confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Executive Order No. 86 (2025), Sec. 2 eligibility.

Does this lead to permanent residence?

No pathway. EO 86 caps DNV at 1yr + 1 renewal; no PR/immigrant conversion provision.

Executive Order No. 86 (s. 2025), read via lawphil.net's verbatim statute mirror (officialgazette.gov.ph blocked automated fetch with HTTP 403). The EO states DNV holders 'may enter and/or stay ... for a maximum period of one (1) year' with one renewal, and explicitly frames the visa as 'temporary' and non-immigrant, with no section addressing conversion to permanent-resident or immigrant status. That the EO is silent on PR is stated directly in its text; that this silence forecloses a PR route is a reasonable reading of the EO's own 'temporary'/non-immigrant framing, not an explicit prohibition clause.

Pathway confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Manila sits at 14.60° N, 120.98° E.

Philippines picked out on a world map

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Time zone

  • UTC+8 Manila (Asia/Manila)

The country

Region
Asia · Southeast Asia
Capital
Manila
Currency
PHP

Nearest

Philippines has no land border. These are the nearest countries covered here, by the distance between capitals.

What it costs to live there

$266 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Philippines 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.

Manila
$887 / month incl. rent
of which rent $374
Cebu
$817 / month incl. rent
of which rent $343

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

  • English official
  • Filipino official
  • Spanish widely spoken
  • Cebuano common in cities
  • Iloko 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".

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 in person or by post — this programme has no online route.
  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.

DFA (apply at an embassy) ↗

Reciprocity-based; rollout patchy, not yet on evisa.gov.ph.

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 .