Digital Nomad Visas by Country: The Complete, Verified List
Every country’s digital nomad visa in one standardized, comparable fiche — income floor, duration, tax, family, procedure — 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.
11 countries verified against official sources, each figure dated. How we source. Figures marked TBD are not yet verified and are never shown as facts.
| Country | Status | Min income | Duration | Tax | Family | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 Canada | none_alternative | TBD | 6 mo | Under 183 days in Canada in a calendar year, without significant residential ties, keeps you a non-resident for tax purposes - taxed only on Canadian-source income, not your foreign remote salary. Reaching 183 days in the year makes you a deemed resident, taxed on worldwide income. | Yes | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | active | 3,000 USD / mo | 12 mo (renewable) | Foreign-sourced income earned under the Estancia para Trabajadores Remotos is fully exempt from Costa Rican income tax (impuesto sobre la renta/utilidades); permit holders are not treated as habitual Costa Rican tax residents for this income, and it is not treated as Costa Rican-source income. Beneficiaries are also exempt from import taxes on personal computer/telecom equipment needed for their work. The visa does not permit providing services to Costa Rica-domiciled clients. | Yes | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇭🇷 Croatia | active | 3,622.5 EUR / mo | 18 mo | Income earned from an employer or business not registered in Croatia, while holding valid Digital Nomad Residence Permit status, is exempt from Croatian income tax. The exemption does not cover passive income (dividends, capital gains, rental income, pensions), and reportedly persists past the 183-day tax-residency trigger for the life of the permit. | Yes | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇪🇪 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 | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇫🇷 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 | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇩🇪 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 | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇬🇷 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 | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇮🇹 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 | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇯🇵 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 | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇵🇹 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 | 2026-10-20 |
| 🇰🇷 South Korea | active | 105,000,000 KRW / yr | 12 mo (renewable) | Remote income earned for a non-Korean employer or client - the only kind the F-1-D visa permits - is not taxed by Korea for the common case (physical presence under 183 days/year). Employees who do qualify as tax resident can elect an optional 19% flat tax rate instead of Korea's progressive brackets; freelancers and sole proprietors are not eligible for that flat rate. | Yes | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇪🇸 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 | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇹🇭 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 | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇦🇪 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 | 2026-09-24 |
| 🇬🇧 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 | 2026-09-24 |
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 — and the top search results keep repeating last year’s numbers. This site is built around that problem. Every country is a standardized fiche where each hard fact — the income floor, the duration, the tax rule, the family conditions, the fees — 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 — which happens more often than you would expect — 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 — each carries a written guide covering who the visa fits, how the application runs, and the pitfalls that actually cause refusals — and our guides for the cross-country questions: taxes, income requirements, and how a nomad visa differs from a tourist stay. Rules change often, so we publish every change in the visa news feed and release the full table as a free CSV and JSON dataset.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a digital nomad visa?
- A digital nomad visa is a residence permit for people who earn their living from outside the country they want to live in - a foreign employer or foreign clients, not local work. It gives an explicit legal right to reside (and usually work remotely) for a defined, often renewable period, in exchange for proof of income, health insurance, and sometimes a clean criminal record.
- How much income do I need for a digital nomad visa?
- It varies by country and is usually pegged to a multiple of the local minimum wage, so the figure moves year to year - which is why every income figure on this site is dated and sourced rather than fixed. Bringing a partner or children raises the requirement. Run your income through the eligibility checker to see which countries you currently clear.
- Which digital nomad visa has the lowest income requirement?
- Among the popular European options, Spain sets one of the lower monthly income floors, which is a large part of why it tops search interest. Requirements differ by unit (monthly vs annual, gross vs net) and currency, so compare them on the home page table rather than by eye.
- Does a digital nomad visa affect my taxes?
- The visa and your tax residency are two different systems. Most countries make you a tax resident once you spend more than 183 days there in a year, regardless of what your visa is called - so a visa marketed as tax-friendly can still make you a full tax resident if you live there most of the year. See our tax guide for the full picture; this is general information, not tax advice.
- Which countries have a digital nomad visa?
- 11 countries in this database currently run a dedicated digital nomad visa program: Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Japan, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, United Arab Emirates. Several more high-search-interest countries (France, Germany, Canada, the UK) have no visa officially called a "digital nomad visa" - each has its own fiche below explaining the real route remote workers use instead. The full sourced comparison, including countries not yet meeting this site's indexing bar, is in the table below.