The Digital Nomad Visa Is the Passive-Income Route, and Its Price Is Three Average Salaries a Month for Six Months Running
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Jamaica on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
154 exceptions recorded across 56 countries · none match Jamaica to Romania · Residency on passive income
Romania has no residence category for living off an income from abroad in general. What it has is a digital nomad visa, added to Ordinance 194/2002 by Law 22/2022, and the definition is narrow: a foreigner employed by a company registered outside Romania who provides services through information and communications technology, or who owns such a company and works in it the same way. It sits inside the long-stay visa for other purposes, article 49(1)(f^1), and the money test is the hardest in this corpus: means from that activity of at least three times the average gross monthly wage in Romania, for each of the six months before the visa application and for the whole period written in the visa. The residence extension in article 69(1)(i) repeats it, adds that a company you own must have been registered for at least three years, and gives you six months at a time rather than a year, with a tax-office income certificate at every renewal. The reward is on the tax side: the Fiscal Code makes a digital nomad's employment income non-taxable in Romania and excludes them from the health contribution - but only while they stay under 183 days in any twelve months, which is the same line that makes everyone else a tax resident.
At a glance
- The category
- Long-stay visa for other purposes, D/AS, as a digital nomad
Article 49(1)(f^1) of Ordinance 194/2002, inserted by point 2 of article I of Law 22/2022.
- Income required
- Three times the average gross monthly wage in Romania
Article 49(2^1)(g) and article 69(3) of Ordinance 194/2002. The Ordinance states the multiple and not an amount: the average gross wage is fixed by a separate law each year and was not read here.
- For how long you must have earned it
- Each of the 6 months before the visa application, and for the whole period in the visa
Article 49(1)(f^1)(i) of Ordinance 194/2002.
- If you own the company rather than work for one
- It must have been registered for at least three years
Article 69(1)(i)(i) of Ordinance 194/2002, which asks for proof of holding it for at least three years before the visa application.
- First extension of residence
- 6 months
Article 69(7) of Ordinance 194/2002. Later extensions need the conditions still met and an income certificate from the competent tax authority.
- Medical insurance
- Minimum cover of 30,000 EUR
Article 49(2^1)(f) of Ordinance 194/2002, as amended on 27 April 2026 by Emergency Ordinance 32/2026.
- Income tax on the foreign salary
- Not taxable, while you stay under 183 days in any 12 months
Article 227(1)(d) of the Fiscal Code, which excludes a digital nomad's salary income from the income non-residents are taxed on.
- Health insurance contribution
- Not payable, under the same 183-day condition
Article 153(1)(b) of the Fiscal Code, which excepts digital nomads from the foreigners who are contributors to the health insurance system.
- A general passive-income route
- None in article 24(1) of Ordinance 194/2002, which lists nine purposes of a long-stay visa and names none of them passive income
The catch-all is other purposes, article 24(1)(i), and the sub-categories of it are listed in article 49(1) and article 69(1). A person living on investments fits only article 69(1)(g), other activities not contrary to Romanian law, which carries its own means test at the average gross wage.
Requirements
- An employment contract with a company registered outside Romania, or ownership of a company registered outside Romania for at least three years
- Work performed remotely through information and communications technology
- Means of at least three times the average gross monthly wage in Romania for each of the last six months and for the whole visa period
- A document from the tax authority of your place of fiscal residence showing your taxes are paid up and that you are not recorded for tax evasion or tax fraud
- Travel medical insurance with minimum cover of 30,000 euro, proof of accommodation and a criminal record certificate
Country-level policy
Romania publishes its law in Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, and that is the only text with legal force. Everything a reader can actually open is a consolidation, and Romanian consolidations are unusually honest about what they are. The consolidated text of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 that the immigration authority itself publishes prints, above the first article, that the content of this act belongs exclusively to S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. It then prints something more useful still: a window. The copy read for these records states that it is valid from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026 - a four-day window that closed more than five months before it was read, because an amendment took effect on 1 May 2026 and this file was never replaced. The consolidation of Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on the same site carries a window that closed on 14 March 2024. The tax administration says the same thing in its own words about the Fiscal Code: the text is updated by electronic means and is not a republication, and it names the last amending law rather than a date to which anything was swept. A Romanian text that looks current is making two separate claims, and the smaller print tells you which one has expired.
Romania wrote its digital nomad relief and its tax residence test around one number, and the two meet head-on. Article 227(1)(d) of the Fiscal Code makes a digital nomad's salary from a company registered outside Romania non-taxable, and article 153(1)(b) excepts the same person from the health insurance contribution - both on the express condition that they are present in Romania for periods not exceeding 183 days in any 12 consecutive months ending in the calendar year concerned. Article 7 point 28(c) of the same Code makes an individual a Romanian tax resident on presence exceeding 183 days in exactly the same window. So the digital nomad regime is built to stop at the line beyond which Romania taxes worldwide income. The immigration side does not stop there. Article 69(7) of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 gives a digital nomad a first residence extension of six months and allows further extensions on the same conditions, so a person who renews once and stays is lawfully resident, has lost the exemption, has lost the exclusion from the health contribution, and under article 59(2^1) is taxed on worldwide income from the first day they arrived rather than from the day they crossed the threshold.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Jamaica
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«n^4) nomad digital - străinul care este angajat cu un contract de muncă la o companie înregistrată în afara României şi care prestează servicii prin utilizarea tehnologiei informaţiei şi comunicaţiilor sau care deţine o companie înregistrată în afara României, în cadrul căreia prestează servicii prin utilizarea tehnologiei informaţiei şi comunicaţiilor şi poate desfăşura activitatea de angajat sau activitatea din cadrul companiei, de la distanţă, prin folosirea tehnologiei informaţiei şi comunicaţiilor;»Our translation - not official
digital nomad - the foreigner who is employed under an employment contract with a company registered outside Romania and who provides services through the use of information and communications technology, or who owns a company registered outside Romania within which he provides services through the use of information and communications technology and may carry out the employee activity or the activity within the company remotely, through the use of information and communications technology;
The definition is about where the employer is and how the work travels, not about what the money is. Investment income, rent and a pension are outside it.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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«f^1) nomazilor digitali care doresc să călătorească şi să rămână pe teritoriul României, în timp ce continuă să obţină venituri din prestarea contractului de muncă la o companie înregistrată în afara României sau din activităţile desfăşurate printr-o companie înregistrată de aceştia în afara României, prin utilizarea tehnologiei informaţiei şi comunicaţiilor, dacă îndeplinesc în mod cumulativ următoarele condiţii:»The visa is the long-stay visa for other purposes. The sentence continues into the two cumulative conditions quoted next.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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«(i) dispun de mijloace de întreţinere obţinute din activitatea desfăşurată, în cuantum de cel puţin trei ori câştigul salarial mediu brut lunar din România pentru fiecare dintre ultimele 6 luni anterioare datei depunerii cererii de viză, precum şi pentru întreaga perioadă înscrisă în viză;»Our translation - not official
they have means of support obtained from the activity carried out, in an amount of at least three times the average gross monthly wage in Romania for each of the last 6 months preceding the date of the visa application, and for the whole period written in the visa;
A multiple, not an amount. The average gross monthly wage is set annually by the state social insurance budget law, which was not read for this record, so no figure is published here.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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«i) nomazii digitali - cu îndeplinirea cumulativă a următoarelor condiţii: (i) prezintă, în original, însoţit de traducere autentificată, în limba română, contractul de muncă încheiat cu o companie înregistrată în afara României, prin care să facă dovada prestării de servicii la distanţă, prin utilizarea tehnologiei informaţiei şi comunicaţiilor, sau dovada deţinerii de cel puţin trei ani anterior datei solicitării vizei a unei companii înregistrate de acesta în afara României, pe care o administrează la distanţă prin utilizarea tehnologiei informaţiei şi comunicaţiilor;»The residence extension repeats the contract condition and adds the three-year holding period for a company the applicant owns.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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«(3) La acordarea sau prelungirea dreptului de şedere temporară, străinii prevăzuţi la alin. (1) lit. c), e), f) şi g) trebuie să facă dovada mijloacelor de întreţinere, cel puţin la nivelul câştigului salarial mediu brut, lunar, pentru perioada pentru care se solicită prelungirea dreptului de şedere, cei prevăzuţi la alin. (1) lit. d), în cuantum de cel puţin 500 euro lunar, proveniţi din activitatea desfăşurată în calitate de administrator, iar cei prevăzuţi la alin. (1) lit. i) trebuie să facă dovada realizării unui venit de cel puţin trei ori câştigul salarial mediu brut, lunar, pentru perioada pentru care se solicită prelungirea dreptului de şedere.»One sentence carrying three different tests: the average gross wage for medical treatment, unremunerated training, volunteering and the catch-all; 500 euro a month for a company administrator; three times the average gross wage for a digital nomad.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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«(7) Prima prelungire a dreptului de şedere temporară pentru străinii prevăzuţi la alin. (1) lit. i) se acordă pentru o perioadă de 6 luni. Prelungirile ulterioare ale dreptului de şedere temporară se pot acorda dacă străinul îndeplineşte în continuare condiţiile prevăzute la alin. (3) şi prezintă o adeverinţă de venit eliberată de organul fiscal competent.»Our translation - not official
The first extension of the right of temporary residence for the foreigners provided for in paragraph (1)(i) is granted for a period of 6 months. Subsequent extensions of the right of temporary residence may be granted if the foreigner continues to meet the conditions laid down in paragraph (3) and presents an income certificate issued by the competent tax authority.
Six months rather than the year article 50(2) allows generally, and proof of income from the Romanian tax authority at each renewal.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
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Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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«d) veniturile din salarii sau asimilate salariilor obținute de persoana fizică cu statut de nomad digital, definit potrivit prevederilor Ordonanței de urgență a Guvernului nr. 194/2002, republicată, cu modificările și completările ulterioare, din activitatea pe care o prestează în baza unui contract de muncă la o companie înregistrată în afara României și care prestează servicii prin utilizarea tehnologiei informației și comunicațiilor sau care deține o companie înregistrată în afara României, în cadrul căreia prestează servicii prin utilizarea tehnologiei informației și comunicațiilor și poate desfășura activitatea de angajat sau activitatea din cadrul companiei, de la distanță, prin utilizarea tehnologiei informației și comunicațiilor, în condițiile în care persoana fizică este prezentă pe teritoriul României pentru o perioadă sau mai multe perioade care nu depășesc 183 de zile pe parcursul oricărui interval de 12 luni consecutive, care se încheie în anul calendaristic vizat.»The exemption and its condition. Over 183 days in any 12 months the exemption stops applying, and article 7 point 28(c) makes the same person a Romanian tax resident.
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Romania's tax administration. It publishes, on static.anaf.ro, an annotated edition of Law 227/2015 - the Fiscal Code - with the implementing methodological norms approved by Government Decision 1/2016 interleaved article by article, and names at the head of the page the last amending Act incorporated into each. The address has carried the year 2023 in its filename since that year and is updated in place, so the filename is not a version marker. It is the only reachable consolidated text of the Fiscal Code: the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal, which is the publisher of record for consolidations, answers nothing from outside Romania.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: The page states what it is not: Textul este actualizat prin mijloace informatice şi nu reprezintă o republicare - the text is updated by electronic means and does not constitute a republication. It names the last amendment incorporated, not a date to which the text was swept, so it carries no consolidation cut-off in the sense this site records one, and no citation taken from it should be given a consolidatedAsOf. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial. It is authoritative about the Fiscal Code and about tax administration and about nothing else: immigration status, health insurance entitlement and social security coordination are decided by other instruments even where the Fiscal Code refers to them. The methodological norms printed beside each article are the Government's reading of the Code, not the Code, and the edition does not visually separate them in the text we extract.
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«b) cetățenii străini și apatrizii care au solicitat și au obținut prelungirea dreptului de ședere temporară ori au domiciliul în România, cu excepția nomazilor digitali, definiți în conformitate cu prevederile art. 2 lit. n 4 ) din Ordonanța de urgență a Guvernului nr. 194/2002, republicată, cu modificările și completările ulterioare, în condițiile în care nomadul digital este prezent pe teritoriul României pentru o perioadă sau mai multe perioade care nu depășesc 183 de zile pe parcursul oricărui interval de 12 luni consecutive, care se încheie în anul calendaristic vizat;»Foreign nationals who have obtained an extension of temporary residence are contributors to the health insurance system, except digital nomads under the same 183-day condition.
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Romania's tax administration. It publishes, on static.anaf.ro, an annotated edition of Law 227/2015 - the Fiscal Code - with the implementing methodological norms approved by Government Decision 1/2016 interleaved article by article, and names at the head of the page the last amending Act incorporated into each. The address has carried the year 2023 in its filename since that year and is updated in place, so the filename is not a version marker. It is the only reachable consolidated text of the Fiscal Code: the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal, which is the publisher of record for consolidations, answers nothing from outside Romania.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: The page states what it is not: Textul este actualizat prin mijloace informatice şi nu reprezintă o republicare - the text is updated by electronic means and does not constitute a republication. It names the last amendment incorporated, not a date to which the text was swept, so it carries no consolidation cut-off in the sense this site records one, and no citation taken from it should be given a consolidatedAsOf. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial. It is authoritative about the Fiscal Code and about tax administration and about nothing else: immigration status, health insurance entitlement and social security coordination are decided by other instruments even where the Fiscal Code refers to them. The methodological norms printed beside each article are the Government's reading of the Code, not the Code, and the edition does not visually separate them in the text we extract.
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«(1) Viza de lungă şedere se acordă străinilor, la cerere, pe o perioadă de 90 de zile, cu una sau mai multe călătorii, pentru următoarele scopuri:»Our translation - not official
The long-stay visa is granted to foreigners, on application, for a period of 90 days, with one or more journeys, for the following purposes:
The opening of the closed list of long-stay visa purposes: economic activities, professional activities, commercial activities, employment, secondment, studies, family reunification, religious activities, scientific research and other purposes. No purpose in it is passive income or retirement.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
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Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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«g) străinii care desfăşoară alte activităţi care nu contravin legilor române - cu avizul autorităţilor competente, atunci când este necesar, sau dacă prezintă documente prin care să justifice necesitatea şederii în România;»Our translation - not official
foreigners carrying out other activities not contrary to Romanian law - with the approval of the competent authorities, where necessary, or if they present documents justifying the necessity of their stay in Romania;
The catch-all a person living on an income from abroad would fall into if they are not a digital nomad. Article 69(3) sets its means test at the average gross monthly wage.
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
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Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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Practical notes
The tax exemption and the residence permit pull in opposite directions. The permit is extended in six-month blocks and can be renewed; the exemption in articles 227(1)(d) and 153(1)(b) of the Fiscal Code holds only while presence stays under 183 days in any 12 consecutive months. A nomad who renews twice and stays put loses both the exemption and the exclusion from the health contribution, and becomes a Romanian tax resident on worldwide income.
No euro or lei figure is published here for the income test because the Ordinance publishes none. It sets a multiple of the average gross monthly wage, which a separate budget law fixes each year, and that law was not read.
The closed list of purposes was read in article 24(1) and the sub-categories in articles 49(1) and 69(1) of Ordinance 194/2002 in the consolidated text valid to 30 April 2026. Nothing outside that Ordinance was searched for a passive-income route.
- administersOrdonanţa de urgenţă a Guvernului nr. 194/2002 privind regimul străinilor în România, formă consolidată
Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrări · consolidated to 2026-04-30
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The Romanian immigration authority, a structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created by Emergency Ordinance 55/2007 out of the Authority for Foreigners and the National Office for Refugees. It administers the regime of foreigners and decides visas, residence extensions and long-term residence. Its Legislaţie page is also, in practice, the most reliable public source of the immigration statutes themselves: it serves consolidated PDFs of Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 on the regime of foreigners, Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 on free movement of Union, EEA and Swiss citizens, Ordinance 25/2014 on employment and secondment, Emergency Ordinance 32/2026 on access to the labour market, Law 122/2006 on asylum and the implementing decisions, at stable wp-content/uploads addresses. These are the only consolidated Romanian immigration texts reachable from outside the country, because the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal answers nothing.
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Cannot be cited for: It is not the publisher of record and the files say so. Every consolidated PDF it serves is produced by S.C. Centrul Teritorial de Calcul Electronic S.A. Piatra-Neamţ and carries that company's disclaimer above the first article: the content belongs exclusively to CTCE and is not a document of an official character, being intended for the information of users. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, issue cited in each amendment annotation. Each file also prints a validity window with an end date, and the Inspectorate does not replace the file when the window closes: the Emergency Ordinance 194/2002 copy read on 10 October 2026 states its validity as running from 27 April 2026 until 30 April 2026, and the Emergency Ordinance 102/2005 copy states 8 to 14 March 2024. It cannot be cited for anything outside the regime of foreigners - not for tax, not for health insurance, not for road traffic, not for citizenship, which is the National Citizenship Authority's - and it cannot be cited for administrative practice: fee schedules, the Shortage Occupations List and the annual labour contingent are ministerial orders and Government decisions published elsewhere.
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- administersLegea nr. 227/2015 privind Codul fiscal, ediţie adnotată
Agenţia Naţională de Administrare Fiscală
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Romania's tax administration. It publishes, on static.anaf.ro, an annotated edition of Law 227/2015 - the Fiscal Code - with the implementing methodological norms approved by Government Decision 1/2016 interleaved article by article, and names at the head of the page the last amending Act incorporated into each. The address has carried the year 2023 in its filename since that year and is updated in place, so the filename is not a version marker. It is the only reachable consolidated text of the Fiscal Code: the Ministry of Justice's legislative portal, which is the publisher of record for consolidations, answers nothing from outside Romania.
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Cannot be cited for: The page states what it is not: Textul este actualizat prin mijloace informatice şi nu reprezintă o republicare - the text is updated by electronic means and does not constitute a republication. It names the last amendment incorporated, not a date to which the text was swept, so it carries no consolidation cut-off in the sense this site records one, and no citation taken from it should be given a consolidatedAsOf. The official text is the Monitorul Oficial. It is authoritative about the Fiscal Code and about tax administration and about nothing else: immigration status, health insurance entitlement and social security coordination are decided by other instruments even where the Fiscal Code refers to them. The methodological norms printed beside each article are the Government's reading of the Code, not the Code, and the edition does not visually separate them in the text we extract.
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