Antigua and Barbuda Digital Nomad Visa

This route sets no capital outlay at all but an income threshold, and the distinction matters: an applicant buys nothing and deposits nothing, and must simply show that they earn enough.

The official programme portal states the conditions in a How to Work Here block of five bullet points, the third of which carries the figure: the applicant must earn a minimum income of 50,000 US dollars per year or more.

The remaining four are not financial: be 18 years or older; be employed outside Antigua and Barbuda and able to work remotely; hold a clean criminal record; and satisfy the ordinary entry visa requirements.

On proof, the portal is specific that the acceptable documents are pay stubs and a bank statement; tax returns are accepted but are not a requirement.

Read this cell against its own timeframe: the programme opened in 2020 and was discontinued on 15 November 2025, so the 50,000 dollar figure describes the period during which the programme was accepting applications, not a condition in force today.

One note for anyone checking the source again: this figure is not on the portal FAQ page, which lists document types without naming a sum, but on the portal home page

The programme has ended, and that can now be read on the programme's own site: nomad.gov.ag prints the line “this Program has ended” in two places, at the head of the page and in the navigation bar.

The closing date of 15 November 2025 comes from the Government of Antigua and Barbuda's discontinuation notice, read on 14 September 2026, and the state of that notice has to be stated rather than left for the reader to discover.

As at this verification date the government notice discontinuing the programme was no longer available on the Antigua and Barbuda government portal. The date given here therefore rests on the copy that was read and not on an address that still opens.

One further point belongs here because it can easily be read backwards: the rest of the page still markets the programme as though it were running.

It still invites the reader to live and work on the islands for two years, alongside sections on accommodation, schools, telecoms and pets.

It still lists the full conditions: eighteen years of age or over, employed outside Antigua and Barbuda and able to work remotely, a minimum income of fifty thousand US dollars, a clean criminal record, and satisfaction of entry visa requirements.

Two contradictory layers sit on one page, and the newer layer is the line saying it has ended. The body behind it is still named in the footer and is unchanged: the Antigua and Barbuda Department of Immigration, Immigration Headquarters, Coolidge Business Park, Sir George Walter Highway, contact [email protected].

The Government of Antigua and Barbuda posted the notice discontinuing the programme on 10 November 2025, and the programme ended on 15 November 2025. The notice period was five days. For anyone then preparing an application, that is not enough time to do anything at all.

While open, the programme let visa holders live and work in Antigua and Barbuda for two years. The programme site, read in a browser on 27 September 2026, still carries that introduction next to the notice that the programme has ended.

The site also still notes that an entry visa may apply separately from the nomad residence visa. For anyone planning a move to Antigua and Barbuda, neither point now describes an open route.

The programme was run under the auspices of the Antigua and Barbuda Department of Immigration, launched in 2020 and brought to an end on 15 November 2025 — five years exactly. The target group is defined by an exclusion about where income arises: remote workers who earn their income outside Antigua and Barbuda.

What it granted was residency status, for up to two years.

The discontinuation notice sets no minimum days of presence, says nothing about renewal once the programme closed, and for current holders offers only two Department of Immigration telephone numbers — that is, the fate of permits still in force is not dealt with in any public document

The discontinuation notice states that the programme provided residency status to qualified applicants and their dependents, for the same period of up to two years. But it does not define who counts as a dependent — it names no spouse, no children, no age limit and no test of economic dependence.

The programme page that once carried that definition was taken down when the programme closed, so the public document that survives confirms only that dependants were included, not who qualified as one

The status this programme grants, whether a visa or a residence permit, does not replace the holder's passport. The holder still travels on the passport of their own country, so the figure below belongs to the Antigua and Barbuda passport and becomes the holder's only once they are issued a Antigua and Barbuda passport.

According to the Passport Index of Prosperous Intelligence, on data dated 30 September 2026, the Antigua and Barbuda passport reaches 159 destinations without applying for a consular visa in advance. The figure combines three forms of entry and does not count an e-Visa that must be obtained beforehand:

It is therefore a measure of how easily the holder travels, not a count of visa-free countries in the narrow sense.

For comparison, on the same source and the same method of counting, the Vietnamese passport reaches 44 destinations. The two lists of destinations do not nest inside one another, so the difference is an indication rather than a list of places newly opened.

Prosperous Intelligence dates its data and advises checking with the destination’s official authorities before travelling.

The official programme portal answers the tax question in one complete question and answer, and it is the purest form of the motif this campaign has been looking for:

Asked whether the holder will have to pay income taxes in Antigua and Barbuda, the authority replies no, the visa holder income tax Affairs are entirely with his or her country of normal residence.

The issuing authority states in terms that the visa creates no income tax liability in that country, and that the whole of the tax question remains with the country of normal residence.

One programme condition keeps that answer standing: the visa permits remote work only for companies and persons outside Antigua and Barbuda, and does not permit employment by an Antiguan employer.

But the whole of this cell must be read in one context: the programme has ended.

On that same portal the words this program has ended appear in two places in the page source, and one of them is where the apply button used to be — the apply control has been replaced by the discontinuation notice, linking to a notice file on the agency home site.

That file is no longer on the agency site, and of the six files the agency home page now carries, none relates to the programme. Every condition below is therefore a condition of the programme while it operated.

The programme was the Nomad Digital Residence, run by the Antigua and Barbuda Department of Immigration, allowing an applicant and dependants to come and work remotely for a term of two years.

Eligibility: aged eighteen or over; employed outside Antigua and Barbuda and able to work remotely; a minimum income of USD 50,000 a year or more; a clean criminal record; and meeting entry visa requirements.

Fees are non-refundable and payable on submission. Amounts are in USD:

Two hard limits: the visa cannot be renewed and can only be issued once; the two-year term runs from the date of approval. Holders could enter and leave freely throughout the two years and could open a bank account.

The visa could be revoked where the holder committed an offence, breached the visa conditions, or acted in a manner contrary to the national interest.

On procedure: applications were wholly online, with a response within twenty-four hours and processing in five to seven working days. On arrival, the holder visited the programme office to have the visa stamped into the passport.

Two years of health and travel insurance were a prerequisite. Children could attend private schools only, and education was compulsory for children aged five to sixteen throughout the term.

One limit on scope must be held: the authority answer speaks only of holders of this visa and not of the Antigua and Barbuda tax system generally.

The limit recorded on another record still stands and must not be widened on the strength of that answer.

The list of twenty-eight taxes administered by the Inland Revenue Department contains no personal income tax, and Act No. 8 of 2016 ended filing obligations after the August and September 2016 dates. But that instrument does not use the word abolish, and the statute index still lists the Personal Income Tax Act 2005.

Read this cell within its scope: the programme portal covers eligibility, fees, duration, procedure and a single statement on the holder income tax position; it cites no statute name or number as the basis of the programme, says nothing about tax residence, nothing about reporting duties, and does not link to a revenue authority

The official portal publishes a four-tier fee schedule in US dollars, priced by the number of people on the application rather than by duration:

Three attached conditions determine what the fee actually buys, and a schedule detached from them is easily misread.

First, the fees are non-refundable and must be submitted upon application, so the money is committed before any outcome is known. Second, the visa cannot be renewed: it runs for two years and the authority answers the renewal question with a flat no, so the fee purchases exactly two years rather than any extendable right.

Third, the visa may be issued only once to a given person, an explicit cap. Beyond money there is a documentary condition applying to the whole group: a police certificate is required for every person over the age of 18 associated with the application, not for the principal applicant alone.

Read against its timeframe: this is the schedule that applied while the programme was accepting applications, and the programme was discontinued on 15 November 2025.