Digital Nomad Visas by Country: The Complete, Verified List
Every countryโs digital nomad visa in one standardized, comparable fiche โ income floor, duration, tax, family, procedure โ each figure sourced to an official source and dated. Where others publish listicles that expire in six months, every row here shows when it was last verified.
8 countries verified against official sources, each figure dated. How we source. Figures marked TBD are not yet verified and are never shown as facts.
Recent updates
- 2026-08-01 โ Daily source check across all 12 fiches, with one country graduating out of TBD. South Korea: the income floor is no longer TBD - independent coverage of the visa's June 2026 relaunch (Human Resources Online) restates the standard-tier rule as '2x per-capita GNI' without the previously-competing, unexplained USD 65,800 figure, leaving USD 73,926 (the only value that checks out arithmetically against the well-corroborated USD 36,963 2025 GNI base) as the published figure at 'reported' confidence; hikorea.go.kr/immigration.go.kr/mofa.go.kr remain unreachable, so this stays short of 'official'. Fees stay TBD. Italy: a visahq.com claim of a precisely-dated '2026-03-02 Gazzetta Ufficiale decree' behind the recurring ~EUR 28,000 income figure could not be verified anywhere and is now flagged as likely spurious; EUR 24,789 stays published. Separately, located the actual Agenzia delle Entrate ruling (Risposta n. 2/2026, 12 January 2026) confirming Regime Impatriati access for returnees doing smart working for a foreign employer, on Italian territory - resolves the general question though it doesn't name digital-nomad-visa holders specifically. UAE: broader independent sourcing this pass reframes the long-running USD 5,000 income-floor rumor as most likely describing a separate, pre-existing business-owner/freelancer tier rather than a 2026 hike to the employee floor - USD 3,500 stays published for employees, with more corroboration against a change than before. Greece: located the primary legal citation for Law 5275/2026 (Government Gazette FEK A' 17/06.02.2026) via three independent legal-database mirrors, corroborating the law's existence and broad subject matter, though the specific lease/property-purchase closure clause itself remains unconfirmed against a primary text. Spain: still no Royal Decree rewrite of the absence-based residence-extinction rule found; a single legal-advisory source adds detail to the UGE's post-approval audit practices (reportedly ~70% of files re-reviewed), not independently corroborated. Portugal, Estonia, Germany, France, Japan, Thailand and UK: re-checked, no material change found since each fiche's last pass; official government domains for Portugal (AIMA), Spain (BOE), Estonia (e-resident.gov.ee, politsei.ee) and South Korea remain 403 on direct fetch across the board. South Korea, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Spain
- 2026-07-31 โ Daily source check across all 12 fiches. Greece: the lease/property-purchase loophole closure under Law 5275/2026 (flagged 2026-07-29 as single-sourced and unconfirmed) is now corroborated by a second independent legal-advisory source (siopi-law.gr, alongside the original Bernitsas Law overview) - both describe Type C-visa/visa-waiver entrants losing the option to use a lease or property contract for the Type I.8 permit, now needing the full consulate-first Digital Nomad D-visa route instead; promoted from an unpromoted flag to a reported, corroborated note (mfa.gr/migration.gov.gr still unreachable directly). Italy: located the actual Gazzetta Ufficiale text of the 2024-02-29 digital-nomad decree (via a hosted PDF copy) - it corroborates rather than changes the 2026-07-23/27 finding that no separate 'March 2026 decree' exists; the recurring ~EUR 28,000 figure some guides cite is the same consulate-level rounding already flagged, not a new threshold. EUR 24,789 stays published. Germany: re-checked the forthcoming Remote Work Visa flagged in the Federal Foreign Office's April 2026 Visa Handbook (~EUR 1,200/mo, reported by remoteworkeurope.eu and others) - still not launched, still a WATCH item only, not promoted into tracked fields. UAE, Spain, Portugal and South Korea: re-checked their respective open questions (income-floor rumor, absence-based residence-extinction Royal Decree, AIMA card fee, income/fee tiers) - no material change on any of them, all previously-published figures reconfirmed. Estonia, France, Japan, Thailand and UK: re-checked, no material change found since each fiche's last pass. Greece, Italy, Germany
- 2026-07-30 โ Daily source check across all 12 fiches. Portugal: found the first D8-specific guide published clearly after March 2026's AIMA fee-table revision to state a concrete residence-card figure - idealista.pt/en (2026-03-31) cites EUR 185.60 for the D8 residence permit (plus a EUR 109.40 application fee) - close to the EUR 170 estimate already tracked here and well below the EUR 440 general-category figure flagged since 2026-07-25; this is the strongest evidence yet that the March revision's higher fee lines apply to other residence categories, not the D8, though it stays secondary-sourced pending an AIMA official page. Also: a citizen petition asking Parliament for transitional protections under the pre-reform 5-year citizenship rule was discussed by committee on 2026-06-06 - no legislative change resulted, the 10-year/7-year timeline stands. Spain: the awaited Royal Decree rewrite of the absence-based residence-extinction rule remains unpublished; separately, secondary sources report the UGE's Digital Nomad Office is now also tightening scrutiny at the application stage (3 months of payslips/invoices plus bank-ownership certificates, stricter health-insurance/Social-Security document review), not just at renewal - enforcement practice, not a new legal requirement, no tracked figure changes. UAE: re-checked the USD 3,500-vs-5,000 income-floor rumor and the AED 500,000 health-insurance rumor - no new official-page access, no new mainstream press coverage either way; USD 3,500 stays published. South Korea: hikorea.go.kr/immigration.go.kr/mofa.go.kr still unreachable; income-tier and fee figures stay TBD, sources still conflict on the GNI-multiplier conversion. Italy: re-checked the Digital Nomad Tax Bonus vs. Regime Impatriati question and the EUR 24,789 income figure - no primary source resolves either, both stay as previously published. Germany, Estonia, France, Greece, Japan, Thailand and UK: re-checked, no material change found since each fiche's last pass. Spain, Portugal
- 2026-07-29 โ Daily source check across all 12 fiches: broad stability, no headline-figure changes anywhere, but two open questions were traced further and two minor nuances surfaced. UAE: traced the USD 3,500-to-5,000 income-floor rumor to its origin - nearly every instance of the claim (across a dozen-plus commercial and legal-services sites) leads back to a small cluster of visahq.com blog posts published between 2026-01-07 and 2026-05-15, echoed rather than independently corroborated; USD 3,500 stays published with the citation-laundering pattern now confirmed rather than merely suspected. Italy: the recurring ~EUR 28,000 income-figure claim (vs. the published EUR 24,789) was checked again across five more 2026 guide sites - the figures are mutually inconsistent (EUR 25,500-34,087) and none cites a decree number, matching the same unconfirmed-rounding pattern already dismissed on 2026-07-23/27; EUR 24,789 stays published. Greece: on its first re-check since 2026-07-12, a single unconfirmed source (Bernitsas Law, itself unreachable on direct fetch) suggests Law 5275/2026 may also have closed the lease/property-purchase route to the Type I.8 residence permit for nomads entering on a Type C visa - plausible but not independently corroborated, so not promoted; separately, the Type I.8 fee (~EUR 1,000) is now reported unchanged post-reform by two independent sources, resolving the fee re-verification flagged since Law 5275/2026 took effect. Estonia: on its first re-check since 2026-07-08, search-indexed content suggests the long-standing NET-vs-GROSS conflict on the EUR 4,500/mo income figure may run deeper than tracked - e-resident.gov.ee's own FAQ page and its nomadvisa landing page may state different bases - flagged for a direct-fetch follow-up rather than acted on, since neither page could be independently read this pass. Spain: still no Royal Decree rewrite of the absence-based residence-extinction rule found published; the only other 2026 amendment located (a broader Supreme Court ruling on unrelated RD 1155/2024 precepts) does not address it. Portugal: a single-sourced claim of a second family-reunification grace period (to ~2026-10-19, for sponsors with an application already in preparation) was checked and left unpromoted - it looks like it may simply restate the already-corrected Oct-19 date rather than a genuine second window. South Korea: income and fees stay TBD; the top-tier GNI multiplier conversion still splits between two figures and the official age/region table remains unpublished. Japan, Thailand, France, Germany and UK: re-checked, no material change found since each fiche's last pass; Germany's rumored dedicated Remote Work Visa still has not launched. United Arab Emirates, Greece, Estonia, Italy
- 2026-07-28 โ Daily source check across all 12 fiches. UAE: for the first time since this rumor started, a mainstream UAE outlet was found discussing it directly - Khaleej Times' own 2026 visa-rule-changes roundup states the remote-work-visa income floor 'remains' at USD 3,500/month and attributes this year's real change to the 6-month bank-statement requirement, not an income rise. u.ae/ICP/GDRFA still 403 on direct fetch, so this is a search-indexed press read rather than a page fetch, but it is the strongest corroboration yet against the long-running USD 5,000 claim, which continues to circulate on commercial visa-processing sites. USD 3,500 stays published. South Korea: hikorea.go.kr still unreachable directly; a fresh batch of tax/immigration guides repeats the already-known ~USD 45 base fee for US applicants without resolving the genuine by-nationality fee variance or the disputed top-tier income conversion - both stay TBD, no material change. Spain: chased a candidate Real Decreto 1166/2024 that looked like it might be the Royal Decree rewrite of the absence-based residence-extinction rule flagged since 2026-06-16 - ruled out on inspection, as it governs a 12-month absence threshold for long-duration residence specifically (in force since May 2025), not the 6-month temporary-residence rule the digital nomad visa falls under. The awaited rewrite itself is still unpublished. Portugal, Italy, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Thailand and UK: re-checked, no material change found since each fiche's last pass; Germany's forthcoming dedicated Remote Work Visa still has not launched. United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Spain
- 2026-07-27 โ Daily source check, with one correction affecting current applicants. Portugal: resolved the grandfather-cutoff date flagged on 2026-07-25 - independent legal-advisory sources (Andersen, M|B Advogados) confirm Lei 61/2025's transitional window for family reunification ran 180 days from the law's 2025-10-23 entry into force, closing around 2026-04-22, not 2026-10-19 as previously (and incorrectly) tracked; that window is now CLOSED, so any D8 sponsor who did not file within it must meet the standard 2-year prior-residence rule. Also re-confirmed the AIMA residence-card fee stays at ~EUR 155-170 for the D8 category specifically, unaffected by the broader March-2026 fee-table rise. South Korea: the F-1-D income-tier region list (Seoul/Incheon/Gyeonggi vs. elsewhere) is now well corroborated across independent guides, but the exact dollar conversion for the top income tier and the visa fee both stay TBD - genuine source disagreement persists on both figures. UAE: a wider search surfaced still more secondary sources asserting the USD 5,000 income floor as settled, but at least one other current guide states USD 3,500 remains in place, and official pages plus mainstream UAE press remain unreachable - USD 3,500 stays published pending a primary-source read. Italy: chased a claimed 'March 2026 implementing decree' surfaced by a search summary - found no trace of it in Italian legal press; the operative decree is still the original 2024-02-29 one, EUR 24,789 unchanged. Spain: re-checked for the Royal Decree rewrite of the absence-based residence-extinction rule reported in June - still not published. Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Thailand and UK: re-checked, no material change found since each fiche's last pass. Portugal, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Italy, Spain
- 2026-07-25 โ Daily source check across all 12 fiches. South Korea's max-stay duration (1-year grant, renewable, 3-year total) is now well-corroborated across 5+ independent sources tied to the 2026-07-07 Ministry of Justice announcement and graduates out of TBD; income and fees stay TBD as sources still conflict on the exact GNI multiplier and fee figures (743 visas issued / 398 active holders as of May 2026, added as context). Italy: filled the previously-TBD processing-time field with a consulate-guidance consensus range (30-60 days employees, 90-120 days freelancers). Portugal: flagged two open items for the next pass rather than changing published figures - the AIMA residence-card fee (currently tracked at ~EUR 170) may have risen toward EUR 300-440 under a March-2026 fee-table revision, and the reported Oct-19-2026 family-reunification grandfather cutoff looks inconsistent with the 180-day transitional window described elsewhere (which would close around April 2026) - both unresolved, not yet promoted into tracked fields. Spain: the EUR 2,849/month income figure now checks out arithmetically against the official 2026 SMI decree, and a candidate Royal Decree (RD 316/2026) was checked and ruled out as the rewrite referenced in earlier reporting - no change to the published figure. UAE: traced the increasingly-consistent USD 5,000 income-floor rumor back toward a single commercial originator (a pattern consistent with republication rather than independent corroboration), and found current Gulf News pages still stating USD 3,500 with no mention of any change - USD 3,500 stays published. Greece, Estonia, Japan, Thailand, France, Germany and UK: re-checked, no material change found since each fiche's last pass. Portugal, Italy, South Korea, Spain, United Arab Emirates
- 2026-07-24 โ Daily source check across all 11 fiches (plus South Korea, Croatia, Costa Rica): no headline-figure changes, but two items refined. Spain: pinned down the exact citation for the 5 May 2026 Supreme Court ruling flagged on 2026-07-18 - Judgment 564/2026, ECLI:ES:TS:2026:2130 - and found a new, concrete follow-on: the Interior Ministry has reportedly issued an interim circular telling Extranjeria/police to suspend open absence-based residence-extinction procedures while a full Royal Decree rewrite is prepared, a favorable procedural step for renewals (still secondary-sourced, not a fetchable official circular). UAE: a wider search surfaced more secondary sources than previously found for the long-running USD 3,500-to-5,000 income-floor rumor, telling a noticeably more consistent story (same January-2026 circular, same 2026-04-23 effective date, same figures) than the conflicting accounts read on 2026-07-19 - but with u.ae/ICP/GDRFA still unreachable directly and zero mainstream UAE press coverage, this stays flagged as reported and unconfirmed, not fact; USD 3,500 remains the published figure. France, Thailand, Portugal, UK, Germany, Italy, Greece, Estonia and Japan: re-checked, no material change found since the last pass. Spain, United Arab Emirates
- 2026-07-23 โ Daily source check, plus a new country. South Korea officially launched a Digital Nomad (Workation) visa, F-1-D, on 2026-06-30 (eligibility eased 2026-07-07) - added as a new fiche with program status confirmed via press coverage (Korea Herald, Erickson Immigration Group), but every hard fact (income, fees, duration specifics) stays marked TBD until an official Korean government page can be read directly; reported details point to a per-capita-GNI-linked income test (varies by applicant age/region) and a maximum stay extended from 2 to 3 years, but these were not precise enough to publish as sourced figures. Italy: chased the ~EUR 28,000 income figure some 2026 guides cite against the EUR 24,789 published value - found no 2026 Gazzetta Ufficiale decree behind it; the only digital-nomad decree on record is still the original 2024-02-29 one, so EUR 24,789 stays published with strengthened confidence. UAE: the long-running USD 3,500-to-5,000 income-floor rumor's claimed 2026-04-23 effective date is now three months past with still no official or independent confirmation - USD 3,500 is now treated as confirmed current rather than merely unrebutted. South Korea, Italy, United Arab Emirates
- 2026-07-19 โ Daily source check across all 11 fiches: no headline-figure changes, but three items updated. UAE: the long-watched rumor of a USD 3,500-to-5,000 monthly income-floor rise has new but conflicting secondary reporting (a January-2026 ICP/GDRFA circular, said to take effect 2026-04-23) - some sources describe a flat USD 5,000 for everyone, others a tiered rule where employees stay at USD 3,500 and only business owners/freelancers move to USD 5,000; a parallel rumor claims the health-insurance minimum rose from AED 150,000 to AED 500,000. No official u.ae/ICP/GDRFA page could be read to confirm either change, so the fiche keeps USD 3,500 as the published figure and flags both rumors as unverified - worth a heads-up for anyone relying on the old number while this resolves. France: the 2026-05-01 OFII post-arrival fee rise (EUR 200 to 300) is now traced to a specific law - Article 128 of Loi n. 2026-103 du 19 fevrier 2026 - upgrading its sourcing without changing the figure. Thailand: confirmed the foreign-income remittance tax rule (Order Por. 161/2566) is unchanged; a proposed 2-year exemption window stalled when Parliament dissolved for the February 2026 election and has not been revived, so no relief is currently in force. United Arab Emirates, France, Thailand
- 2026-07-18 โ Daily source check: no changes to headline figures across the 11 fiches, but two dated Spanish court rulings were added as renewal caveats on Spain's fiche. The Supreme Court (STS 2130/2026, 2026-05-05) voided the rule letting a residence card lapse solely for 6+ months of annual absence - that ruling is specifically about the EU-family-member card, but several 2026 immigration-law sources report it reinforces the same protection for Digital Nomad Visa renewals by analogy (not an official DNV-specific ruling, so treated as reported, not official). Separately, a TSJ Madrid ruling (Sentencia 26/2026) upheld terminating a remote-worker permit for not registering with Spanish Social Security from day one, consistent with reporting that the UGE's reorganized Digital Nomad Office is enforcing existing requirements more strictly in 2026 - so overall renewal risk has shifted, not disappeared, even though the specific 183-day-absence ground for denial is gone. Spain
- 2026-07-17 โ Re-checked all 11 fiches against current sources. Portugal: the 2026 Nationality Law reform (10 years to citizenship, 7 for EU/CPLP) held up under Constitutional Court review and remains in force unchanged since 2026-05-19 - the Court struck down four unrelated provisions, not the residency timeline. Family reunification's 2-year prior-residence rule is confirmed too, with added exemptions: minor and dependent-student children don't face the wait at all, and a spouse/partner with 18 months of prior cohabitation gets a reduced 15-month wait. Also newly sourced: the D8's consulate visa fee (EUR 110), resolving a previously TBD field. UK: corrected a fees error - visa-exempt visitors (most EU, US, Canada, Australia) no longer travel free; the Electronic Travel Authorisation reached full mandatory enforcement on 2026-02-25 and its fee rose to GBP 20 on 2026-04-08. Spain: the 2,442-vs-2,849 EUR income-floor discrepancy is now explained (Real Decreto 126/2026 fixed the 2026 SMI at EUR 1,221/month; EUR 2,849 is 200% of that figure annualized and reprorated - the basis actually applied), and the Beckham Law 24%/EUR 600k tax figures are now independently corroborated directly on AEAT's own domain rather than a single secondary blog. Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain
- 2026-07-16 โ Two corrections from this pass's source check: France reversed its own mid-2025 ban - a 2026-06-23 Journal Officiel response from the Ministry of the Interior confirms the long-stay Visitor visa (visa visiteur) is compatible with remote work for a foreign employer after all, provided the work stays outside the French economy (paid and taxed abroad, no French clients or France-based business); Profession Liberale and Talent Passport remain the routes for nomads who do plug into the French economy. Separately, the UAE's Virtual Work Residence Visa still floors income at USD 3,500/month (the rumored rise to USD 5,000 has not happened), but GDRFA now requires 6 months of bank statements as proof, up from 3, effective since late January 2026. France, United Arab Emirates
- 2026-07-12 โ Re-checked all 10 fiches against current sources. Two corrections: France's long-stay visitor visa is no longer a viable remote-work workaround (a ban has been enforced since mid-2025) - the fiche now points to the Profession Liberale / Talent Passport routes instead; Portugal's path to citizenship moved from 5 to 10 years (7 for EU/CPLP nationals) under its 2026 Nationality Law reform, and family reunification now needs 2 years of prior residence in most cases. Also: Japan's visa fee and processing time are no longer TBD, Germany now flags a forthcoming dedicated Remote Work Visa, and Italy notes a pending 2026 Budget Law tax incentive for nomad-visa holders. France, Portugal, Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Thailand
| Country | Status | Min income | Duration | Tax | Family | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ช๐ช Estonia | active | 4,500 EUR / mo | 12 mo | Staying more than 183 days makes you an Estonian tax resident (flat personal income tax, ~20-22%), taxed on worldwide income. Under 183 days, Estonia generally does not tax your foreign income. | Yes | 2026-07-08 |
| ๐ซ๐ท France | none_alternative | 1,867 EUR / mo | 12 mo (renewable) | Living in France more than 183 days generally makes you a French tax resident, taxed on worldwide income at French rates. Double-taxation treaties apply. | Yes | 2026-07-16 |
| ๐ฉ๐ช Germany | none_alternative | TBD | 24 mo (renewable) | Living in Germany more than 183 days generally makes you a German tax resident, taxed on worldwide income. Freelancers register with the Finanzamt and receive a Steuernummer. | Yes | 2026-07-08 |
| ๐ฌ๐ท Greece | active | 3,500 EUR / mo | 12 mo (renewable) | New tax residents may access a 50% income-tax exemption for up to 7 years (Art. 5C), but it is NOT automatic and generally does NOT apply to pure foreign-source remote income. Staying >183 days makes you a Greek tax resident, taxed on worldwide income at standard rates. | Yes | 2026-07-12 |
| ๐ฎ๐น Italy | active | 24,789 EUR / yr | 12 mo (renewable) | If you become an Italian tax resident (183+ days), income is taxable under IRPEF. Two optional favorable regimes (cannot be combined): Regime Forfettario (5% flat for self-employed under EUR 85k, first 5 years, 15% after) or Regime Impatriati (50% of qualifying income exempt for 5 years). Employees kept on a foreign contract may be taxed under treaty rules. | Yes | 2026-07-23 |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Japan | active | 10,000,000 JPY / yr | 6 mo | A stay of 6 months (under 183 days) generally does not make you a Japanese tax resident, so foreign income is not taxed by Japan under the visa. | Yes | 2026-07-05 |
| ๐ต๐น Portugal | active | 3,680 EUR / mo | 24 mo (renewable) | The old NHR regime closed to new entrants; the successor incentive is IFICI ("NHR 2.0", 2024), which is narrower and role-restricted. Do not assume a blanket tax break. | Yes | 2026-07-17 |
| ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea | active | 73,926 USD / yr | 12 mo (renewable) | TBD | TBD | 2026-08-01 |
| ๐ช๐ธ Spain | active | 2,849 EUR / mo | 12 mo (renewable) | Optional special expat regime (Beckham Law): 24% flat on Spanish-source income up to EUR 600k (47% above that threshold from the same payer); foreign-source income generally untaxed under the regime. | Yes | 2026-07-25 |
| ๐น๐ญ Thailand | active | TBD | 6 mo (renewable) | Foreign income may be taxable in Thailand if you become a Thai tax resident (183+ days) and remit it; rules on remitted foreign income tightened recently. | Yes | 2026-07-05 |
| ๐ฆ๐ช United Arab Emirates | active | 3,500 USD / mo | 12 mo (renewable) | No personal income tax in the UAE, so foreign income is not taxed at the personal level. (5% VAT on goods/services; 9% corporate tax above AED 375k profit - neither is personal income tax.) | Yes | 2026-07-27 |
| ๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom | none_alternative | TBD | 6 mo | A visit that stays within the Standard Visitor visa's 6-month cap is not automatically outside UK tax residence: the Statutory Residence Test (SRT) can make you UK tax-resident from as few as 46 days a year if you have strong UK ties, or up to 183 days with none. Nomads working remotely from the UK should count SRT days, not just visa validity. | Yes | 2026-07-16 |
How this database works
Most digital nomad visa content on the internet is a listicle: written once, ranked forever, quietly wrong within months. Income thresholds move with minimum wages, fees rise, application routes open and close โ and the top search results keep repeating last yearโs numbers. This site is built around that problem. Every country is a standardized fiche where each hard fact โ the income floor, the duration, the tax rule, the family conditions, the fees โ links to the official government or consular source it came from and shows the date we last checked it.
When we cannot verify a figure against an official source, we mark it TBD instead of guessing, and a fiche with too many unverified facts stays out of search results entirely until the sourcing is done. When official pages disagree with the numbers circulating online โ which happens more often than you would expect โ we document the conflict on the fiche rather than pick the convenient figure. The full rules are on the how we source page, and every reference we rely on is listed, dated and rated on the sources page.
To use it: sort the table above by income or duration, or let the eligibility checker shortlist countries against your income and situation in under a minute. Then read the country pages โ each carries a written guide covering who the visa fits, how the application runs, and the pitfalls that actually cause refusals โ and our guides for the cross-country questions: taxes, income requirements, and how a nomad visa differs from a tourist stay.