31/10/2022
You can now rest, digital-nomad. 👩🏻💻
💡On October 30th, Portugal started to offer a new visa for non-EU\EEE\Swiss citizens which are digital-nomads.
But, what exactly this means?
If means that, if you work as a self-employed freelancer, online business owner or works for an employer, has an income of a least €2820 per month, legal ways to prove that you work remotely and tax residency documents, you can now be a legal resident in Portugal and work by traveling the world.
Until recently, most of these non-EU/EEE/Swiss nomads ended up moving to Portugal on the D7 Visa, but it wasn’t made for the digital-nomads indeed, it was first designed for retirees. Although some people was successfully applied, it may not work if you intent to work as a digital-nomad.
There’re two types of Digital-nomad visa: the “Temporary stay” with one year of durability and it’s renewable, and the “Residence visa” for those who want a longer stay, with the goal to obtain the Portuguese residence or citizenship in the future.
You may be wondering, why Portugal? 🇵🇹
Portugal is a warm country, with good food and well-stablished culture, low cost of living, safety, health and education for everybody, easy-going people and the timezones work well for international work. What else to ask for? But the most important is that the government wants you to be here, as Portugal’s deputy minister for parliamentary affairs, Ana Catarina Mendes, once said: “Portugal is a country of immigration that needs immigrants, that needs and benefits from the contribution of immigrants to its demographics, to its economy, to its culture.”
And now, with this new visa, you’ll be able to contribute to the country as a resident but not necessarily need to be here. That’s pretty amazing, don’t you think?
❔The bureaucracy with this type of thing can be confusing, so we advice you to you can book a session with one of our immigration lawyers by visiting GrowIN Portugal’s website (linked on bio), go to Services and “Immigration Lawyer” and we will take care of everything for your new digital-nomad visa.
We look forward to have you here! 👋🏻