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Saint Lucia

Live It programme (extended visitor visa)

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Closed — the programme has ended. 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
Closed — the programme has ended
Minimum monthly income
No fixed amount
Required savings
None
Annual total
No fixed amount
Initial duration
Up to 12 months
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
Not stated

No fixed minimum; show sufficient funds.

How this figure is set: The law asks for "sufficient means" and sets no figure. Formula: bank statements showing ability to support stay.

Income confidence: low · checked 2026-09-08
Legal basis: not found. The programme was announced by the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority in May 2021 as an extended-stay offer and never had a located digital nomad regulation; the Immigration Act non-immigrant visa was the underlying instrument.

Does this lead to permanent residence?

No pathway. Live It programme pages are dead (404); no live official source confirms it still exists.

stlucia.org/en/liveit/ and stlucia.org/live-it both return 404 as of Sept 2026; stlucia.org/en/live-it/ resolves but shows only the generic tourism homepage with no Live It content. govt.lc's Non-Immigrant Visa and Immigration Department pages, checked live, make no mention of the programme. The Wayback Machine holds only one snapshot of the programme page, from March 2023. Saint Lucia's general framework requires 5 years continuous residence for permanent residence and 7 for citizenship, but no official source states whether non-immigrant/visitor time counts toward that clock, so even the general question is unresolved, not just the Live It-specific one.

Pathway confidence: low · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Castries sits at 14.01° N, 60.99° W.

Saint Lucia picked out on a world map

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Time zone

  • UTC−4 St Lucia (America/St_Lucia)

The country

Region
Americas · Caribbean
Capital
Castries
Currency
XCD

Nearest

The countries covered here whose capitals are closest to Castries.

What it costs to live there

$716 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Saint Lucia 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
UN Statistics Division, National Accounts Main Aggregates, reference year 2024: household consumption expenditure including NPISHs, current US$, divided by population and by twelve. The World Bank publishes no series for Saint Lucia, so the UN's copy of the same measure stands in. Population: World Bank population (SP.POP.TOTL, 2025). 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

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 Saint Lucia in this dataset. What the row records about residence: Live It programme pages are dead (404); no live official source confirms it still exists.

Government of Saint Lucia (no programme page) ↗

Closed. The programme's own page (stlucia.org/en/liveit) was archived live as late as 25 March 2023 and returned 404 by 22 July 2023; later captures are redirects. Today the URL serves the generic tourism homepage with no mention of the programme, and govt.lc does not reference it. No government closure notice was found, so this is read from the page's disappearance rather than an announcement - hence low confidence. The source link now points at the archived programme page, which is the only surviving description. Verified 8 Sep 2026.

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 .