Spain Digital Nomad Visa

The threshold is expressed as a percentage of the Spanish Interprofessional Minimum Wage, on gross pay. The principal applicant must show resources equal to 200% of it. A first family member adds 75%, and each family member from the second onwards adds 25%.

Proof is by bank statements showing transaction history and balances for the last six months, together with salary settlements for the last six months. Note that the consular guidance still cites the 2023 minimum wage of EUR 15,120 gross a year, so any absolute euro figure derived from it is out of date.

The absolute figure for 2026 has now been read where it is fixed: Real Decreto 126/2026 of 18 February 2026, Article 1, sets the inter-professional minimum wage at forty euros seventy cents per day or one thousand two hundred and twenty-one euros per month, according to whether the wage is fixed by the day or by the month.

Two hundred per cent of the monthly figure is two thousand four hundred and forty-two euros, which is the figure carried in this record's option row. Two documents, one number: the consular instruction supplies the percentage test, the royal decree supplies the minimum wage

There are two routes and they carry very different terms. Applying for the visa at a consular post gives a maximum of one year, or the length of the work period if that is shorter.

A person already lawfully in Spain, including on a tourist stay, or who entered on that visa, may instead apply directly for the residence authorisation, which is granted straight away for three years.

The residence authorisation is filed online with the Ministry Large Enterprises and Strategic Groups Unit, needs no prior visa, and must be decided within 20 days.

The relationship with the foreign company must have lasted at least three months at the date of application, and the company must show real, continuous activity for at least one year. An employee also needs a contract providing for remote work, or explicit permission to work remotely from Spain.

Social security obligations apply from the start. An employee needs proof that the company has applied to register with Spanish social security and that the worker is affiliated; a self-employed person needs proof of affiliation to the self-employed workers' scheme.

Three time requirements are conditions, not formalities. The employment or professional relationship with the foreign company must be at least three months old at the date of application.

That company must show real and continued activity for at least one year, evidenced by an up-to-date certificate from the companies register giving its date of incorporation and its line of business.

And the applicant must be a qualified professional: a graduate or postgraduate of universities of recognised prestige, or of vocational training and business schools of recognised prestige, or with at least three years of professional experience

The consolidated text of Law 14/2013 sets no minimum number of days of presence for the international teleworking route, but it does impose two duties and one exemption that this route does not enjoy.

The first duty is in Article 74 quater(3): the teleworking visa is valid for a maximum of one year, and anyone wishing to stay on must apply for the international remote-worker residence authorisation within the sixty calendar days before the visa expires, provided the conditions that gave rise to the right are maintained.

The successor residence authorisation is valid for a maximum of three years and is renewed in two-year periods, on the same condition.

The second duty is in the seventh additional provision: the foreign national must maintain throughout the validity of the visa or authorisation the very conditions that gave access to it.

Any change during residence affecting the admission conditions must be communicated to the Large Companies and Strategic Groups Unit within thirty days.

The authorities may carry out checks, and where the legally established conditions are found not to be met they may terminate the visa or authorisation by reasoned decision after a hearing.

The last point is the one most often read backwards: the sixth additional provision allows residence to be renewed even where absences exceed six months a year, but only for the visas and authorisations of foreign investors and of workers of companies that operate abroad but have their base of operations in Spain.

The international teleworker is in neither group.

And that same provision adds that the exemption relieves nobody of proving continuity of residence when applying for long-term residence or for Spanish nationality.

The consular guidance lists three groups who may also obtain the visa: the spouse or unmarried partner; dependent children; and dependent relatives in the ascending line — parents, grandparents — provided they form part of the family unit.

Admitting the ascending line is worth noting, because many European digital nomad routes open only to a spouse and children.

On procedure, each accompanying person is a separate applicant rather than an extra line on the principal file: each fills in and signs a national visa application form of their own, and each applicant of legal age must submit a criminal record certificate from the country or countries of residence for the past two years.

Proof of the relationship is a birth or marriage certificate issued by the civil registry, a certificate of registration as an unmarried couple, or any other document proving an unregistered partnership; foreign documents must be legalised or apostilled and accompanied by an official translation into Spanish.

The money owed for accompanying family members sits in the capital threshold cell, not here.

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 Spain passport and becomes the holder's only once they are issued a Spain passport.

According to the Passport Index of Prosperous Intelligence, on data dated 30 September 2026, the Spain passport reaches 204 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.

This is one of the very few programmes where the statute names the visa itself in the tax provision.

Law 28/2022 of 21 December both creates this visa class and rewrites Article 93 of the Personal Income Tax Law in full, that amendment taking effect on 1 January 2023, and the new heading of Article 93 reads: special tax regime applicable to workers, professionals, entrepreneurs and investors displaced to Spanish territory.

The substance: a person who becomes tax resident in Spain as a result of moving to Spanish territory may elect to pay tax under the Non-Resident Income Tax for the tax period of the change of residence and the five following tax periods, while remaining a personal income taxpayer.

And here is the sentence that bears directly on this record, in Article 93(1)(b)(1):

The condition is treated as satisfied where the employment activity is carried out remotely through computer and telecommunications means, and in particular it is treated as satisfied in the case of employed workers holding the international teleworking visa provided for in law 14/2013.

One limit must be held here: the statute says employed workers, whereas Article 74 bis of Law 14/2013 — inserted by Law 28/2022 itself — also permits self-employed professionals to hold this visa; so a self-employed holder is not automatically covered by that particular sentence.

The remaining conditions: paragraph (a) requires not having been resident in Spain during the five preceding tax periods. Paragraph (c) is an exclusion: the person must not obtain income that would be characterised as obtained through a permanent establishment in Spain, save in the two cases at (b)(3) and (b)(4).

A person electing the regime is subject to wealth tax on a real obligation basis. On computation: paragraph 2(b) treats all employment income arising during the period of the regime as obtained in Spanish territory.

The rates at paragraph 2(e)(1) apply to the tax base as follows, in EUR:

Sub-paragraph (2) taxes income under Article 25(1)(f) of the Non-Resident Income Tax Law on a scale of its own, in EUR:

Withholding on employment income is 24%, rising to 47% on amounts above EUR 600,000 from the same payer. Paragraph 3 extends the regime to family: a spouse and children under 25, or of any age where disabled, may also elect it, provided their aggregate tax base is lower than that of the principal.

Two conditions of the visa itself, from Law 14/2013 as amended: Article 74 bis confines the holder to working for undertakings located outside Spanish territory, and where self-employed, work for undertakings in Spain must not exceed 20% of total activity;

Article 74 quater gives the visa a maximum validity of one year, with a residence permit for international teleworkers available in the 60 days before expiry.

Read this cell within its scope: the source is the very statute that creates the visa and amends the tax law, so it covers both limbs, but it does not set out the administrative procedure for electing the regime, which is left to the Ministry of Finance.

It does not state the minimum salary for the visa, which sits in subordinate legislation; and it says nothing about social security obligations

The health insurance must be a private policy taken out with an insurer authorised to operate in Spain; travel insurance is not accepted.

It must cover one year from the intended date of entry, or the whole period of work if shorter. And it must carry no waiting period, no co-payment and no coverage limit, meaning 100% of medical costs both in and outside hospital.

The insurer must appear on the register of the Directorate General of Insurance and Pension Funds. The passport must also have at least one year of validity, two blank pages, and must not have been issued more than ten years ago