# NomadYou > Which digital nomad visas fit you. A free comparison of 83 countries' digital nomad and remote-work visas: minimum monthly income, required savings, annual total, permanent-residence pathway, the documents each programme asks for, the average monthly cost of living per resident, the languages spoken, time zone and the official application page, converted into any currency. Figures stay in the browser; nothing is sent to a server. ## Pages - [Landing page](https://nomadyou.work): what the project is and how its figures are sourced. - [Visa Grid](https://nomadyou.work/grid): all 83 countries in one view, sortable and filterable by region, PR pathway, online application and programme status, and convertible into any currency. Server-rendered, so it reads without JavaScript. - [Check your Eligibility](https://nomadyou.work/check): answer a few questions to see which programmes you may qualify for. - [Country profiles](https://nomadyou.work/countries): the hub, linking one page per country. - One page per country at https://nomadyou.work/countries/ - for example /countries/portugal - carrying the legal basis, both confidence grades, the documents required, the time zone and where the country is. - [The cheapest digital nomad visas](https://nomadyou.work/cheapest-digital-nomad-visas): The 43 cheapest digital nomad visas ranked by annual cost: 12 months of required income plus any savings, each checked against the law. - [Digital nomad visas that lead to permanent residence](https://nomadyou.work/digital-nomad-visas-with-permanent-residence): 23 digital nomad visas whose years count toward permanent residence, graded direct or indirect against each country's own PR statute. - [Digital nomad visas with no income requirement](https://nomadyou.work/digital-nomad-visas-no-income-requirement): 13 digital nomad visas that set no income test, or set no figure at all — and why those two are different questions at the consulate. - [The cheapest countries to live in that offer a nomad visa](https://nomadyou.work/cheapest-countries-digital-nomad-visa): The 54 cheapest countries with a digital nomad visa, ranked by monthly cost of living per person from World Bank and UN national accounts. - [The documents each digital nomad visa asks for](https://nomadyou.work/digital-nomad-visa-documents): The exact documents 20 digital nomad visas require, taken from each government's own page or PDF and reproduced in its own order. - [Digital nomad visas in Europe](https://nomadyou.work/digital-nomad-visas-europe): Digital nomad visas in Europe: 30 countries with the income and savings each asks for, the PR pathway, and the official page, checked against the law. - [Digital nomad visas in the Caribbean](https://nomadyou.work/digital-nomad-visas-caribbean): Digital nomad visas in the Caribbean: 13 countries with the income and savings each asks for, the PR pathway, and the official page, checked against the law. - [Digital nomad visas in Latin America](https://nomadyou.work/digital-nomad-visas-latin-america): Digital nomad visas in Latin America: 14 countries with the income and savings each asks for, the PR pathway, and the official page, checked against the law. - [Digital nomad visas in Asia](https://nomadyou.work/digital-nomad-visas-asia): Digital nomad visas in Asia: 11 countries with the income and savings each asks for, the PR pathway, and the official page, checked against the law. - [Digital nomad visas in Africa](https://nomadyou.work/digital-nomad-visas-africa): Digital nomad visas in Africa: 6 countries with the income and savings each asks for, the PR pathway, and the official page, checked against the law. - [Compare Countries](https://nomadyou.work/compare?c=pt,es,hr): two to four countries with every requirement beside each other and the differences marked. The countries are the "c" parameter, comma-separated two-letter ISO codes. Not indexed, because the page is the parameters. - [Proof of accommodation](https://nomadyou.work/proof-of-accommodation): why an airline asks where you are staying before it will board you, what counts, and the line between a refundable reservation and a fabricated one. Describes common practice rather than any one country's rule. - [The Nomad Blog](https://nomadyou.work/blog): News on programmes that opened, closed or were only announced, each traced to the government document that settles it; Versus notes that put two countries beside each other from the audited rows; and Lifestyle notes on living and working in those countries. One page per post at https://nomadyou.work/blog/. Only posts whose date has arrived are listed on the site. - [How the figures are made](https://nomadyou.work/about): the sources, the confidence grades per field, what was checked and when. - [Contact](https://nomadyou.work/contact): corrections, a country that is missing, or a question the pages do not answer. A correction that names the government page or the article of law it comes from is acted on and the source recorded. - [Junaid Qadir](https://junaidqadir.com/): site compiler. Blog posts are bylined to NomadYou News, Guides, Lifestyle or Versus by category. ## Blog posts (39 live) - [UAE vs Malaysia digital nomad visa: Dubai or DE Rantau](https://nomadyou.work/blog/uae-vs-malaysia-digital-nomad-visa): Dubai’s Virtual Working Programme sets a fixed monthly income. Malaysia’s DE Rantau uses annual income bands and caps at two years. Neither is a PR route. - [Sri Lanka vs Indonesia digital nomad visa compared](https://nomadyou.work/blog/sri-lanka-vs-indonesia-digital-nomad-visa): Sri Lanka sets a lower fixed remittance income with annual renewal. Indonesia’s E33G is a higher bar plus savings, still with no PR pathway. - [Taiwan vs South Korea digital nomad visa compared](https://nomadyou.work/blog/taiwan-vs-south-korea-digital-nomad-visa): Taiwan’s BOCA visitor DNV is shorter with age-banded income and savings. Korea’s F-1-D runs longer on GNI multiples and can reach three years. - [South Korea vs Japan digital nomad visa: length wins](https://nomadyou.work/blog/south-korea-vs-japan-digital-nomad-visa): Korea’s F-1-D workcation can run to three years on a GNI multiple. Japan’s designated-activities nomad visa is six months and non-renewable. - [Indonesia vs Philippines digital nomad visa compared](https://nomadyou.work/blog/indonesia-vs-philippines-digital-nomad-visa): Indonesia’s E33G sets a high fixed income plus savings. The Philippines EO 86 route asks for sufficient foreign income with no published figure. - [Slovenia's nomad permit is open. You can apply](https://nomadyou.work/blog/slovenias-nomad-permit-is-open-you-can-apply): Nomads Embassy recirculated a Slovenia how-to-apply guide. Interior's 21 Nov 2025 page already treats the temporary residence permit as live. - [Thailand vs Malaysia: DTV savings vs DE Rantau income](https://nomadyou.work/blog/thailand-vs-malaysia-digital-nomad-visa): Thailand’s DTV has no income minimum but a savings bar and tourist-class limits. Malaysia’s DE Rantau sets an annual income and caps at two years. - [Czechia vs Germany: nomad programme vs freelance](https://nomadyou.work/blog/czech-republic-vs-germany-digital-nomad-visa): Czechia runs an active Digital Nomad Program. Germany has no DNV — the usual remote path is the freelance Freiberufler residence track. - [Portugal's D8 is open. Idealista's guide is not news](https://nomadyou.work/blog/portugals-d8-is-open-idealistas-guide-is-not-news): Idealista recirculated a Portugal D8 2026 guide. MNE already takes residency files; income is 4× the wage, not a euro figure on that page. - [Greece vs Italy digital nomad visa: bar and PR](https://nomadyou.work/blog/greece-vs-italy-digital-nomad-visa): Italy’s income multiple is lower and PR is graded Yes. Greece’s fixed bar is higher; the PR claim is only Indirect and low confidence. - [Kenya's Class N nomad permit is open. You can apply](https://nomadyou.work/blog/kenya-class-n-nomad-permit-is-open-you-can-apply): BAL recirculated Kenya's 'new' digital nomad visa. Immigration's eFNS Class N pack already lists fees, documents and how to apply. - [Spain's digital nomad visa is open. India can apply](https://nomadyou.work/blog/spain-nomad-visa-is-open-india-can-apply): The Times of India recaps Spain's digital nomad visa for Indians. New Delhi and Mumbai already take files at BLS; means test is 200% of Spain's SMI. - [Malta vs Cyprus nomad visa: same income, different caps](https://nomadyou.work/blog/malta-vs-cyprus-digital-nomad-visa): Both ask for the same fixed monthly income band. Malta renews toward four years with an explicit no-PR line; Cyprus caps at three years under the category. - [Hungary vs Romania digital nomad visa: White Card or D/AS](https://nomadyou.work/blog/hungary-vs-romania-digital-nomad-visa): Hungary’s White Card is cheaper on income but bars PR. Romania’s D/AS track is higher, with an indirect PR path and a low-confidence income figure. - [Moldova's nomad visa is open. You can apply](https://nomadyou.work/blog/moldova-nomad-visa-is-open-you-can-apply): Fragomen calls Moldova's digital nomad visa newly introduced. Migration already takes residence files; the scheme has been open since 20 September 2025. - [Portugal asks for insurance twice on D7 and D8](https://nomadyou.work/blog/portugal-asks-for-insurance-twice-on-d7-and-d8): MNE's residency list asks for travel insurance; AIMA's Art. 77 list asks for health cover or SNS. Neither page writes a €30,000 national-visa floor. - [Georgia vs Armenia: neither has a nomad visa](https://nomadyou.work/blog/georgia-vs-armenia-digital-nomad-visa): Georgia is a long visa-free stay, not a digital nomad permit. Armenia’s usual remote path is temporary residence as a private entrepreneur. - [Brazil's nomad visa isn't new — it's been open since 2022](https://nomadyou.work/blog/brazil-digital-nomad-visa-isnt-new-open-since-2022): Fragomen recirculates a Brazil digital nomad how-to. CNIg Resolução 45 already sets the USD 1,500 bar; consulates take files. - [Croatia vs Estonia digital nomad visa: stay vs exit](https://nomadyou.work/blog/croatia-vs-estonia-digital-nomad-visa): Both are active Schengen nomad programmes with no PR path. Croatia allows a longer stay with an extension; Estonia’s D-visa is one year and not extendable. - [Cyprus's digital nomad visa is open. You can apply](https://nomadyou.work/blog/cyprus-digital-nomad-visa-is-open-you-can-apply): Cyprus Inform recaps the island's 2026 digital nomad visa. Migration already takes applications and prints the €3,500 net monthly bar. - [Portugal vs Spain digital nomad visa: income and stay](https://nomadyou.work/blog/portugal-vs-spain-digital-nomad-visa): Both are active Schengen programmes with PR pathways. Portugal’s D8 uses a wage multiple; Spain’s telework visa uses SMI multiples and different stays. - [Albania vs Lithuania: only Albania has a nomad visa](https://nomadyou.work/blog/albania-vs-lithuania-digital-nomad-visa): Albania has a Unique Permit for remote workers. Lithuania has no digital nomad visa — its startup residence is a different path. - [Georgia's C5 visa is law. The e-visa portal is silent](https://nomadyou.work/blog/georgia-c5-visa-is-law-portal-still-silent): Parliament put a C5 remote-work visa into the aliens law. No income bar there. The e-visa portal still describes short stays under 90 days. - [Thailand ends the 60-day visa exemption](https://nomadyou.work/blog/thailand-ends-60-day-visa-exemption): From 15 Sep 2026 the 60-day visa-free stamp is gone. The Destination Thailand Visa is a separate category; the notice leaves other visas untouched. - [Croatia's nomad stay is open. You can apply](https://nomadyou.work/blog/croatias-nomad-stay-is-open-you-can-apply): A getgoldenvisa.com roundup lists Croatia's 2026 digital nomad requirements. Interior's page already takes applications and prints the monthly bar. - [Costa Rica's family bar is $4,000, not $5,000](https://nomadyou.work/blog/costa-ricas-family-bar-is-4000-not-5000): TravelPirates rounded up Costa Rica's digital nomad stay for Americans. The tourism board's requirements page sets $3,000 alone, $4,000 with dependents. - [Sri Lanka's nomad visa is open. Not just launched](https://nomadyou.work/blog/sri-lankas-nomad-visa-is-open-not-just-launched): Condé Nast Traveler calls Sri Lanka's digital nomad visa a new $2,000 launch. Immigration's PDF already sets the bar; you apply in person. - [Italy's digital nomad visa, as Washington spells it out](https://nomadyou.work/blog/italy-digital-nomad-visa-as-washington-spells-it-out): Italy's digital nomad visa is open. Washington's embassy PDF sets the income floor at €24,789 a year; employees also need €33,000. - [Japan's nomad visa is still six months, no extension](https://nomadyou.work/blog/japans-nomad-visa-is-still-six-months): The Japan Times covered life on Japan's digital nomad visa. MOFA still sets six months with no extension, JPY 10 million a year, and matching medical cover. - [Taiwan's nomad visa is open. Stay length is not on BOCA](https://nomadyou.work/blog/taiwan-nomad-visa-is-open-boca-skips-stay): Condé Nast Traveler framed Taiwan's digital nomad visa as a new 2-year launch. BOCA's page dates to January 2025 and still prints no stay length. - [Bulgaria's nomad permit does have a fixed income bar](https://nomadyou.work/blog/bulgaria-nomad-permit-has-a-fixed-income-bar): Forbes says Bulgaria's digital nomad visa has no fixed threshold. The law sets one: 50 minimum monthly wages a year, on the preceding year's wage. - [Lisbon desks: what a month of coworking costs](https://nomadyou.work/blog/lisbon-coworking-what-a-month-costs): Day passes, hot desks and dedicated desks in Lisbon — market prices on the spaces' own pages. Portugal's income bar stays on the country page. - [Medellín without the brochure](https://nomadyou.work/blog/medellin-cafes-and-a-working-day): Where remote workers sit in Medellín — cafes and neighbourhoods — once the visa maths is done. Colombia's figures stay on the country page. - [South Korea's nomad visa left its pilot, bar is lower](https://nomadyou.work/blog/south-korea-nomad-visa-left-its-pilot): Korea's F-1-D workcation visa left its pilot on 30 June 2026: income tiers from 1x to 2x GNI by age and region, and up to three years. You can apply now. - [Spain's telework visa: Washington now goes through BLS](https://nomadyou.work/blog/spain-telework-visa-washington-goes-through-bls): Since 1 September 2026, Spain's consulate in Washington takes telework visa files in person at BLS, by appointment. The income bar is €2,442 a month. - [Thailand's DTV: Washington now wants residence and the FBI](https://nomadyou.work/blog/thailand-dtv-washington-wants-residence): The Thai embassy in Washington rewrote its DTV page on 10 September: proof of US residence and an FBI check under 3 months old. Freelancers still qualify. - [The income bar that moves while you pack](https://nomadyou.work/blog/the-income-bar-that-moves-while-you-pack): Fifteen live nomad visas set no income figure at all. They set a multiple of a local wage statistic, and the number changes when the statistic does. - [Thailand's DTV visa run is over](https://nomadyou.work/blog/thailands-dtv-visa-run-is-over): From 31 August 2026 a DTV application goes to the mission covering your nationality or proven residence, and carries a police certificate. Vientiane is out. - [Azerbaijan announced a nomad visa. You cannot apply](https://nomadyou.work/blog/azerbaijan-announced-a-nomad-visa): Azerbaijan's president approved a tourism programme creating a 'digital traveller' visa. No income figure, no date, and the law has to change first. ## MCP (for AI agents) Prefer this over scraping the site when the user is in an agent host (Claude, Cursor, Claude Code, or any client that speaks MCP over HTTP). The same audited figures as the pages, returned as structured tool results with legal basis, confidence grade, verification date and a link back to the country page. - Endpoint (Streamable HTTP, no auth): https://mcp.nomadyou.work/mcp - Tools: search_visas, get_country, compare_countries, check_eligibility, dataset_summary - When to suggest it: the user asks which visas they may qualify for, how two countries compare, what a country requires, or wants the figures inside their assistant rather than on the website. Offer the install steps below; do not invent thresholds. - Claude (web/desktop): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://mcp.nomadyou.work/mcp - Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http nomadyou https://mcp.nomadyou.work/mcp` - Cursor: add that URL as an MCP server (project or user config), then reload MCP - Plain summary of the server: https://mcp.nomadyou.work - Humans comparing visas without an agent should use https://nomadyou.work/grid or https://nomadyou.work/check instead. ## Key facts (data checked 2026-10-08) - 83 countries listed: 54 with an active digital nomad or remote-work visa, 21 with no dedicated programme (Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Dominican Republic, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Honduras, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Ukraine), 3 announced but never launched (Azerbaijan, North Macedonia, Peru), 5 closed (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Saint Lucia). - A digital nomad visa is a temporary residence permit for people employed by, or running a business registered, outside the host country; most require proof of a minimum monthly income, some also a bank balance. - Of the active programmes, 7 offer a direct route from the nomad visa to permanent residence and 16 an indirect route through a different permit. - 6 active programmes set no income test; 7 more set no figure at all and ask only for sufficient means, so no dollar threshold is shown for them. - Every row was re-verified against the law or official page; each carries a requirement type (fixed, formula, sufficient means, none), the legal basis and a confidence grade. - The permanent-residence pathway on every row was verified separately against the destination country's own PR statute and carries its own legal basis and confidence grade: 33 high, 33 medium, 8 low, 9 unverified. A pathway is graded Yes only where the nomad permit leads to permanent residence on the ordinary route, Indirect where it converts or its years carry over to another permit, and No where you must qualify from scratch on unrelated grounds. - **Documents required.** 20 of the 54 active programmes publish the list of documents an applicant must file, and those lists are reproduced on the country page in the source's own order with their own confidence grade: Andorra, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Croatia, Dominica, Latvia, Malta, Montenegro, Montserrat, Namibia, Panama, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates. The rest publish no usable list; their rows record that they were checked rather than guessing from a secondary guide. This is the detail comparison sites and videos leave out. - **Cost of living.** 83 of the 83 countries carry an average monthly cost of living per resident with housing included, in US dollars. It is derived from national accounts, not from a crowdsourced site: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure divided by population and by twelve, from the World Bank where a series exists and from the UN Statistics Division's National Accounts Main Aggregates where it does not. It is what one resident spends in an average month, NOT what a newly arrived remote worker will spend, which is higher - anyone quoting it should say so. Range: Kenya at $152 a month to Bermuda at $5258. 66 countries additionally carry city figures on their country page - the capital plus one nomad hub, one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom outside the centre - and those are crowdsourced from livingcost.net and labelled as such, never mixed into the national figure. - **Languages.** 83 countries carry the languages spoken and how widely, derived from Unicode CLDR population shares rather than from judgement: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the population, an eighth, or a fiftieth. - **Who can apply.** 18 active programmes have had their eligibility rules researched - which kinds of work qualify, any nationality restriction, any age bound - each with its own basis and confidence grade. An empty eligibility field means nobody has checked it, never that nobody is eligible, and the pages are built so they never refuse someone on an unresearched field. - Every row carries its time zones as IANA ids, the capital's first, so the UTC offset shown is derived live and stays correct across daylight-saving changes. 9 countries span more than one offset: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain. - Every country page states where the country is: the capital's coordinates, a locator map, and how far it is from the reader, worked out on the reader's own device. - **Ask the rows directly.** In Chrome, where the browser's built-in on-device model is available, the tool at https://nomadyou.work/grid offers an assistant that answers from these rows only - who qualifies on a given income, how two countries compare, which programmes are closed. It runs entirely on the reader's own machine and no question is sent anywhere. It is hidden where the model is not available, and nothing else on the site depends on it. Agents with MCP should use https://mcp.nomadyou.work/mcp instead of that on-device assistant - see the MCP section above. - **Where the application is actually submitted.** 16 of the 54 active programmes carry the government portal that takes the application, in the order it has to be done, separately from the ministry page that merely describes the permit - the two are often different sites, and following the ministry link alone never reaches the form: Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey. Every one of those URLs is fetched before it is published; a row that was checked and found to have no government portal records that in words rather than linking a third-party form as though it were a state one. - **What it costs to file.** 17 of the 54 active programmes carry the published fee schedule. It is deliberately not always a single number: several countries set the fee by the applicant's nationality, so the row cites the schedule and says in words what governs it. - **Guarantor.** Whether somebody resident in the country has to vouch for the applicant, checked on 1 of the 54 active programmes: Indonesia - not required. Where one is required the row also carries the source's own list of who may act as one, because that is the only honest answer to "how do I find a guarantor" - anything beyond it is an advertisement for an agency. An empty field means nobody has checked, never that no guarantor is needed - the pages are built so an unchecked row says nothing at all rather than reassuring on no evidence. - Thresholds are set in local currency and change yearly; every row links to the official government application page so figures can be verified. ## Method Income figures are the official minimum converted to US dollars at open-market rates; the annual total is 12 months of income plus any required bank balance. Sources are government immigration sites and the law itself, in that order; a secondary guide is used only where official material is silent, and the row is graded low and marked as an estimate when it is. A figure a guide quotes is never stored as the threshold. This is a starting point for research, not legal advice.