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Digital nomad visas in Spain and Portugal: income requirements, documents, renewals, Beckham Law taxation and bank accounts for remote workers moving to the EU.
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Get a 3-year Spain residency with full Schengen access while keeping your foreign tax residency. How remote workers qualify, taxes, and Beckham Law.
Path to permanent residency in 5 years, citizenship in 10. Parents over 65 qualify, effective tax after deductions often falls below 24%. Full breakdown.
Nomad Visa needs remote income of €2,000-3,000/month; Startup Visa suits founders building an innovative company with a team of up to four. Compare both.
The minimum income for Spain's digital nomad visa has risen to €2,850/month. Renewal checks and document requirements are getting stricter: a breakdown of 6 key changes.
Spain's Beckham Law offers a flat 24% tax rate, but a shell-company employer can trigger a retroactive tax recalculation covering up to 6 years.
Spain's Digital Nomad Visa for remote workers: €2,850/month, no quotas. What income is recognized, which documents you need, and what to expect.
A digital nomad visa is a residence route for people who earn their living remotely from employers or clients based outside the host country. Unlike a Schengen short-stay visa, it allows the holder to live in the country legally and usually leads to a renewable residence permit. Spain introduced its version through the Startup Law (Law 28/2022), while Portugal added the D8 visa for remote workers in 2022.
In Spain, applicants either go through a consulate or, if already in the country legally, apply for the residence permit with the Unidad de Grandes Empresas y Colectivos Estratégicos (UGE). In Portugal, the consulate issues the D8 visa and AIMA, the agency that replaced SEF, grants the residence permit after arrival.
Staying in Spain or Portugal for more than 183 days in a calendar year generally makes a person tax resident there, so taxes matter as much as the visa itself. Spain's special regime for inbound workers, known as the Beckham Law, was extended to remote workers by the same Startup Law, but it has its own eligibility conditions. The nomad visa is also distinct from Spain's startup visa, which is meant for founders building an innovative company in the country.