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Uruguay

Provisional Residence for Digital Nomads (Residencia Provisoria para Nómadas Digitales)

PR: IndirectUTC−3

The requirements

Programme status
Open, accepting applications
Minimum monthly income
No fixed amount
Required savings
None
Annual total
No fixed amount
Initial duration
180 days, extendable to 360
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
Yes

No minimum; sworn declaration of means (~US$1,500 typical).

How this figure is set: The law asks for "sufficient means" and sets no figure. Formula: sworn declaration (declaracion jurada) of means; no amount in the tramite.

Income confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Decreto 394/009 (HIP procedure) cited on gub.uy; the 2023 digital nomad decree number could not be verified (Decreto 238/023 checked - unrelated).

Does this lead to permanent residence?

Indirect pathway. Switch to residencia legal; PR is criteria-based, no fixed year count.

gub.uy's official Ministerio del Interior/DNM page 'Tipos de residencias en Uruguay' states the nomad provisional ID is governed by Decreto 238/022 (promulgated 28-Jul-2022, confirmed via IMPO, Uruguay's official norms database) amending art 8 of Decreto 394/009, allowing remote work up to 180+180 days. The same page states verbatim that a person can apply directly for residencia definitiva if they meet the criteria — 'No es necesario tramitar antes la residencia temporaria' — i.e. PR is a separate criteria-based grant, not an automatic conversion after N years, directly stated. Citizenship (3 yrs with family / 5 without, Uruguay's constitution art 75) is a distinct concept under the Corte Electoral, not re-verified officially this session.

Pathway confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Montevideo sits at 34.90° S, 56.16° W.

Uruguay picked out on a world map

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Time zone

  • UTC−3 Montevideo (America/Montevideo)

The country

Region
Americas · South America
Capital
Montevideo
Currency
UYU

Next door

Uruguay shares a land border with these.

What it costs to live there

$949 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Uruguay 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.

Montevideo
$1,487 / month incl. rent
of which rent $699
Punta del Este
$1,322 / month incl. rent
of which rent $531

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 2015: 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

  • Spanish 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

  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 through the route the official page names.Checked 2026-09-12
    Checked 2026-09-12: the page this row cites is on gub.uy, the state's own procedures portal, and the procedure belongs to the Ministry of the Interior's Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil. It is the procedure page, so it is where the application starts.
  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.

gub.uy trámite ↗

Apply online via gub.uy after arriving; foreign income tax holiday.

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 .