Digital nomad visas: which countries offer one and how to apply with your passport
A digital nomad visa lets you live in another country for a while as you work remotely, almost always for companies or clients based outside it. Each country sets its own conditions, usually a minimum income and health insurance, sometimes a degree or work experience. How you apply also depends on your passport: if you enter without a tourist visa you can often apply once you are in the country, and if you need one you usually go through a consulate first. These are the programmes of 12 countries, taken from their official sources.
Once you choose your passport, each country shows whether you can apply and whether you enter without a tourist visa.
-
Argentina
Temporary residence for digital nomads
- Means
- No published minimum income
- Health insurance
- Not required by the source
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
-
Brazil
Temporary digital nomad visa (VITEM XIV)
- Means
- USD 1,500 a month or USD 18,000 in the bank
- Health insurance
- Required
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
-
Colombia
Type V digital nomad visa
- Means
- 3 Colombian minimum wages a month
- Health insurance
- Required
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
-
Costa Rica
Stay for remote workers and service providers
- Means
- USD 3,000 a month, or USD 4,000 with family
- Fee
- 100 USD
- Health insurance
- Required
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
-
Croatia
Temporary stay for digital nomads
- Means
- €3,622.50 a month or €43,470 in savings for a year
- Fee
- 46.45 EUR
- Health insurance
- Required
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
-
Italy
Digital nomad and remote worker visa
- Means
- Three times the health-charge exemption threshold, about €27,000 a year
- Health insurance
- Required
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
-
Malta
Nomad Residence Permit
- Means
- €42,000 gross a year
- Fee
- 300 EUR
- Health insurance
- Required
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
-
Panama
Short-stay remote worker visa
- Means
- USD 36,000 a year
- Fee
- 250 USD
- Health insurance
- Required
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
-
Portugal
Temporary stay or residence visa for remote work
- Means
- €3,680 a month
- Fee
- 110 EUR
- Health insurance
- Required
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
-
Spain
International remote work visa and residence permit
- Means
- 200% of the Spanish minimum wage, €2,442 to €2,849 a month
- Fee
- 73.26 EUR
- Health insurance
- Required
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
-
Thailand
Destination Thailand Visa (DTV), remote work category
- Means
- THB 500,000 in the bank
- Health insurance
- Not required by the source
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
-
Uruguay
Digital nomad provisional identity sheet
- Means
- No published minimum income
- Health insurance
- Not required by the source
It's your passport's countryNot needed: free movementNot open to your passportYou enter without a tourist visaYou need a visa to enter
Insurance, where the work comes from and eligible passports
9 of the 12 programmes require health insurance, and in several of them ordinary travel insurance does not count. Most require the work to be for companies or clients outside the country; Italy, on the other hand, also accepts Italian employers. Argentina and Colombia only accept passports that enter without a tourist visa. Figures tied to a minimum wage, such as those of Spain, Portugal or Colombia, change every year.
Greece also has a digital nomad visa. We have left it out because we have not found an up-to-date official source for its conditions.
Data checked up to 2 November 2026. Confirm the figures on each programme's official page before you pay.
Informational only. Always verify requirements with the official embassy or consulate before you travel.