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Where you can live on an income from abroad if your passport is from Bulgaria

One question, every country, with your nationality already applied. In 7 of them something is written that changes the answer for you; in the other 48 the general rule is what you get, and that is the answer rather than a gap. Every line is that country’s own record.

Where it changes for you
7
Where it does not
48
Blocs you are in
1

Where your nationality changes the answer

CroatiaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10

The Union Answer to Living on Your Own Money, and the Ceiling Croatia Puts on the Test

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

The Zakon o strancima is one of the few in Europe that defines a digital nomad in its own glossary and lists their stay as a purpose of temporary residence in its own right. Article 3(1)(43) sets the test by negation: employed or working through communications technology for a company that is not registered in Croatia, and not providing services to employers in Croatia. Article 57(1) point 11 makes that a purpose of residence. The money is high and it is written as a multiple rather than a sum: the government's Uredba asks a digital nomad for at least 2.5 times the average monthly net salary paid in Croatia the previous year, against 57 per cent for an ordinary temporary residence. Since NN 40/2025 the permit runs up to 18 months and may be extended once inside that window, and when it ends the applicant waits six months before asking again. The two consequences nobody puts beside the permit are what make it unusual: the Zakon o porezu na dohodak exempts the receipts a digital nomad earns from a foreign employer, and the health insurance Act releases them from the duty to join the compulsory scheme and leaves them paying their own medical bills. A person on this permit is inside the country and outside both systems.

CzechiaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10

The Question That Has No Czech Answer for a Third-Country National Is Not Asked of a Union Citizen at All

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

Czechia has no passive-income or self-sufficiency residence category. Section 30(1) of Act No. 326/1999 Sb. looks generous - a long-stay visa is granted to a foreign national who intends to stay for a purpose requiring a stay longer than three months - and the Act never lists what those purposes may be. Section 42(1) then converts that visa into a long-term residence permit after a year, but only while the same purpose continues. What closes the gap is not the statute but the Ministry of the Interior, whose portal says in terms that not every purpose can be a ground for granting a long-stay visa, and whose own index of long-stay visas and long-term residence permits names family, business, study, seasonal work, medical treatment, sport, research, culture, further education, investment, the intra-corporate transfer cards, the employee card and the blue card - and nothing for a person who simply has money. Money is still a condition of every one of them: section 31(1) requires evidence of the purpose, of funds under section 13, and of accommodation.

GreeceVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10

Sufficient Resources and Sickness Cover, Measured Against the Greek Minimum Pension and Declared Without a Figure

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

Greece's route for someone who is not coming to work is paragraph 8 of article 163 of Law 5038/2023, the catch-all article of the Immigration Code: a residence permit of type I.8 for third-country nationals with sufficient resources, granted by the Secretary of the Decentralised Administration where the applicant has sufficient means at the level of a stable annual income to cover living costs. The permit runs for three years and is renewable for the same period. Family members may accompany the holder and the resources condition may be met by each of them separately or by all of them together. The permit gives no right to employment or to independent economic activity of any kind, for the holder or for the spouse or partner or the family. The amount is not in the statute: article 176(1) leaves the supporting documents for every category of permit to a joint ministerial decision, and the figure lives there. The nearest route with a number on its face is the digital nomad title of article 68, where the Code itself fixes sufficient resources at 3,500 euro a month.

LuxembourgVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10

Sufficient Resources and Sickness Cover, with a Ceiling on What May Be Demanded

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

Luxembourg's permit for someone who is not coming to work is the autorisation de séjour pour raisons privées in article 78 of the Act of 29 August 2008. Since the Act of 21 April 2023 gave article 78 its present wording, the first limb is not simply about having enough money: the applicant must be able to live on resources that come either from a professional activity carried on in another Union or Schengen state, or from an old-age, invalidity or survivor's pension paid by a Luxembourgish or other Union or Schengen social-security body. Income from a source outside that area does not answer the article as written. There is a second limb for someone whose personal or family ties make a refusal a disproportionate interference with private and family life, and that one is not about the geography of the money at all. Both limbs need sickness insurance and suitable housing, and both are applied for and granted before you arrive.

RomaniaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10

No Digital Nomad Visa Needed, and the Means Test Falls From Three Average Salaries to the Guaranteed Minimum Income

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

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.

SlovakiaVerified with official sourceStable2026-10-10

The Question Slovakia Has No Answer To for a Third-Country National Is Asked of a Union Citizen - and Capped at Two Hundred and Ninety-Five Euros

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

Slovakia has no passive-income or self-sufficiency residence category, and the way the Act is built makes that a finding rather than a gap. Section 21(1) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z. lists the purposes for which temporary residence may be granted and there are nine of them: business, employment, study, special activity, research and development, family reunification, service duties in civilian components of the armed forces, the status of a Slovak living abroad, and the status of a long-term resident in another member state. Section 20(2) then ties the residence to one purpose. The widest-sounding of the nine, special activity under section 25(1), is itself a closed list of nine named activities - lecturing, art, sport, a traineeship, a government or Union programme, a treaty obligation, health care, volunteering, journalism - and it opens by excluding a business person. The only long-stay permission outside those titles is the national visa in section 15(1), and its five grounds are an existing residence, a pending residence application, a language school of at least 25 hours a week, the interest of the Slovak Republic, and a treaty obligation. There is no tenth door. What the Act does ask of everyone who holds residence is money: section 111(1)(e) makes the holder prove, at a residence check, financial security of at least the subsistence minimum for each remaining month, up to a year ahead - 295.22 EUR a month since 1 July 2026, and half that for a minor.

SloveniaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10

A Union Citizen Living on an Income From Abroad Registers on Means and Insurance, With No Multiple of the Average Wage in Sight

reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area

The general rule it sits on

Slovenia put a digital nomad into its Aliens Act rather than into a ministry's practice. Article 51.a of ZTuj-2, inserted by ZTuj-2I and in application since 21 November 2025, issues a temporary residence permit to a non-EU, non-EEA national who works remotely over communications technology for an employer or a civil-law counterparty established outside Slovenia, or who is self-employed abroad. The money test is not the ordinary one every other permit uses: instead of the basic amount of minimum income it asks for twice the average monthly net wage in Slovenia as last published in the gazette, which on the last publication, for July 2026, is 1,695.34 EUR a month and so 3,390.68 EUR a month. The permit is issued for the term of the contract and in no case for more than a year, and article 51.a(5) says it cannot be extended at all: the holder may apply again only six months after it expires. There is no other passive-income route - the purposes in article 35(1) and the categories in article 35(2) are a closed list and living on an income from abroad is on it only as this.

Where the general rule applies to you unchanged

Nothing is recorded in these that treats a citizen of Bulgaria differently on this question, so what follows is what everyone gets.

Antigua and Barbuda

Living in Antigua and Barbuda on Income From Abroad

Permanent residence: minimum annual income:
US$500,000
Permanent residence: physical presence:
30 days in a calendar year
Permanent residence: validity:
12 months, renewable
Argentina

Rentista (Passive-Income) Temporary Residency

Income threshold:
5 x monthly minimum wage (SMVM)
Income must originate:
Abroad
Government fee:
100 UMSM extra-Mercosur, 50 UMSM MercosurCALC (calculated by us, not published)
Austria

A Permit for Living on Your Own Money, Rationed by a Yearly Quota That Did Not Arrive on Time

The title:
Niederlassungsbewilligung - ausgenommen Erwerbstätigkeit
Income required:
Twice the reference rates in § 293 ASVG
Twice the single-person rate, 2026:
2 616,78 EUR a monthCALC (calculated by us, not published)
Barbados

Living in Barbados on Income from Abroad: the Welcome Stamp

Length of the stamp:
12 months only
Income threshold:
$100 000 or more a year, generated outside Barbados
Fee, individual:
$4 000
Belgium

No Permit for Living on Your Own Money, Because There Is No List of Permits to Put One In

A residence permit built on an income:
None named in article 9 or article 10 of the Act of 15 December 1980
What article 9 requires instead:
An authorisation from the Minister or his delegate, on criteria the article does not state
Where the application is made:
At the Belgian diplomatic or consular post for where you live abroad
Belize

Living in Belize on Income from Abroad

Qualifying period:
A continuous period of at least one year on a temporary permit
Income threshold:
None stated
Absence allowed during the qualifying year, per the Immigration Department:
not left the country for more than 14 days in total
Bolivia

Residency on Passive Income

Passive-income route:
None
Minimum income threshold:
None published, because there is no category to attach one to
What is asked instead:
Economic solvency by sworn declaration with documentary support
Brazil

Residency on Income From Outside Brazil

Income test:
US$ 1,500 a month from a foreign paying source
Alternative to the income test:
US$ 18,000 available in a bank account
Initial term:
Up to one year
Canada

No Class for Someone Who Simply Has Money Coming In

A permanent route on income alone:
None in subsection 70(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, which lists every class
A temporary route on income alone:
None in section 200 of the Regulations, which conditions a work permit on work
What the economic classes ask for instead:
Work, a provincial nomination, experience, a trade, or a business a designated entity has backed
Chile

Temporary Residency as a Rentista

Qualifying income:
Real estate or financial assets only
Income threshold:
No published figure
Where you apply:
From abroad
Colombia

Visitor Visa (V) for People Living on Income

Income threshold:
10 monthly minimum wages
Nature of the income:
Periodic and variable, from a demonstrable lawful source
Where the assets may be:
Abroad or in Colombia
Costa Rica

The Rentista Route: US$2500 a Month, Guaranteed for Two Years

Monthly income required:
US$2500
Period the income must be guaranteed for:
At least 2 years
Who may certify the income:
A bank of the Costa Rican national banking system, a bank in the country where the income arises, or a Costa Rican certified public accountant
Cuba

No Passive-Income Residence, and What Stands in Its Place

Passive-income route:
None
Retiree or rentista subclassification:
None
Nearest route:
Permanent residence on patrimony
Denmark

There Is No Means-Tested Route: the Aliens Act's Grounds Are Work, Family, Study, Protection and a Handful of Named Cases

Residence permit for passive income or savings:
No such ground in sections 7 to 9 q of the Aliens Act
The nearest thing to a self-support route:
Self-employment under section 9 a(2)(10), which needs a business plan rather than an income
Where a money test does appear:
As a condition on a permit granted for another reason
Dominica

Living in Dominica on Income from Elsewhere

Dedicated income or rentier category:
None
Published income threshold:
None
Application fee stated by the Act:
EC$50
Dominican Republic

Residence on Income From Abroad: the Rentista Route

Income threshold:
US$2,000 a month
Per dependant:
US$250 a month extra
Minimum age:
None
Ecuador

Living in Ecuador on Income from Outside: the Rentista Visa and the Nomad Variant

Income threshold:
3 minimum wages a month - USD 1,446 in 2026CALC (calculated by us, not published)
Remote-work variant, annual alternative:
36 minimum wages a year - USD 17,352 in 2026CALC (calculated by us, not published)
Where the income may come from:
Abroad or from Ecuadorian sources
El Salvador

Residence on Income From Abroad: the Rentista

Income threshold:
4 monthly minimum wages (commerce and services)
Threshold in dollars:
USD 1,635.20 a monthCALC (calculated by us, not published)
Threshold with two or more accompanying:
6 monthly minimum wages
Finland

There Is No Route for Living on Your Own Money: the Act Lists Three Grounds From Abroad and Two of Them Are Work

A residence permit for living on private income:
None in sections 45 and 47 of the Aliens Act, which list the grounds exhaustively
What a pension does for you:
It satisfies the money test; it does not open a route
The only open-ended door:
"Another special reason", section 45(1)(3), and only for a temporary permit
France

Live On Your Own Money and Promise Not to Work: the Visiteur Card, Measured Against the Minimum Wage

The permit:
Carte de séjour temporaire portant la mention "visiteur", valid one year
How much money:
At least the net annual salaire minimum de croissance
What does not count towards it:
The adult disability allowance and the old-age supplement, both excluded by name
Germany

No Passive-Income Permit - Germany Builds Every Title Around an Activity

A permit written for passive income:
None in the Act
The nearest provision:
The self-employment permit, which asks for a business rather than a balance
What this means in practice:
There is no German equivalent of a non-lucrative or elective residence
Grenada

Living in Grenada on Income from Elsewhere

Income threshold:
None
Permanent residence fee, CARICOM and Cuba:
EC$1,000
Permanent residence fee, everyone else:
EC$5,000
Guatemala

Living in Guatemala on Income from Abroad

Status granted:
Permanent residence, indefinite term
Minimum monthly income:
USD 1,250
Each dependant adds:
USD 300
Guyana

Guyana Has No Residence Route for Passive Income

Residence route based on passive income:
None found in the Immigration Act or the Investment Act
Purposes a permit may be issued for:
Transit, medical treatment, visiting, employment, trade or business, or any other purpose of a temporary nature
Ceiling on a permit and its extensions:
Three years from the date of entry
Haiti

Living in Haiti on Income from Elsewhere: One Permit, and a Means Test That Shrank by Fifty Times

Dedicated income, rentier or passive-income category:
None
Bank attestation the agency asks for:
A minimum of 7,500 gourdes or US$200
Deposit the immigration law requires:
US$10,000 in a bank established in Haiti, or an affidavit of support from a Haitian citizen
Honduras

Living in Honduras on an Income of Your Own

Income threshold:
USD 2,500 per month
Where the income may arise:
Abroad or in Honduras
Must be received through:
A Honduran financial institution
Ireland

No Class to Belong To: Every Residence Here Is One Officer's Permission

A statutory residence class for income:
None in the Immigration Act 2004, which prescribes no classes at all
What exists instead:
Stamp 0, the Department's name for a set of conditions under section 4(6)
Work:
Not permitted, unless a letter of permission says otherwise
Italy

No Passive-Income Permit in the Act - the Route Is a Visa Decree the Act Does Not Contain

A permit written for passive income:
None in the Act
What Italy uses instead:
The elective residence visa, created by the visa decree
Where money does appear in the Act:
Article 26-bis, for investors, outside the quota
Jamaica

Living in Jamaica on income from elsewhere

Minimum income published:
None
Permanent residence application fee:
JM$100,000.00
Published processing time:
3 to 6 months
Mexico

Temporary Residence on Your Own Means

Savings test:
An average monthly balance of 11,460 days of UMA over the last 12 months
Income test:
Net monthly income above 680 days of UMA for the last 6 months
Savings test in pesos:
MXN 1,344,372.60CALC (calculated by us, not published)
Netherlands

Nineteen Restrictions, and Only One Asks About Money Alone

A residence purpose for living here on income from elsewhere:
None
The nearest thing in that list:
Residence as an economically non-active long-term resident
Who may use it:
A long-term resident, meaning the holder of an EU long-term residence permit
Nicaragua

Residence on Income from Abroad in Nicaragua

A route based on income from abroad:
None in force
The route that existed:
Residente rentista, under Ley 694
Monthly income it required:
USD 1.250.00
Panama

Living in Panama on Your Own Means

Threshold:
B/.300,000
Monthly income test:
None
Fixed deposit term:
3 years minimum
Paraguay

Living in Paraguay on Income You Do Not Earn Locally

Income threshold for temporary residency:
None published
Income threshold for permanent residency:
No amount published
Temporary residency term:
Up to 2 years, renewable for the same period
Peru

Rentista Residency on Permanent Income

Income threshold (foreign source):
US$ 1,000 net per month
Income threshold (Peruvian source):
Not published
Length of permission:
Indefinite
Poland

There Is No Permit for Living on Your Own Money, and the Act Says So by Listing the Ones There Are

A permit for living on independent means:
None in Dział V of the Ustawa o cudzoziemcach, whose chapters name every purpose, nor in the nine points of article 186(1)
What the permit is tied to:
The declared purpose of stay
Longest a temporary permit can run:
3 years
Portugal

There Is No Passive-Income Permit - There Is a Residence Visa and a Figure in a Ministerial Order

A permit written for passive income:
None in the Act - the route is the residence visa and the general conditions
Residence visa:
Two entries, four months, to apply for the permit here
Decision on the visa:
60 days
Saint Kitts and Nevis

Living on Foreign Income in Saint Kitts and Nevis

Income or passive-income residence permit:
None
Minimum income threshold:
None stated anywhere in the Act
Nearest thing to a route:
Visitor permit, up to 6 years from entry
Saint Lucia

Living in Saint Lucia on income from elsewhere

Income-based residence category:
None
Minimum income:
None published
How long you can stay without Cabinet:
One year from entry
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Living in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on Income from Elsewhere

A residence route for people living on foreign income:
None published
What exists instead:
One permission, decided at the Prime Minister's Office
Income threshold:
Not published
Spain

Living on Your Own Money: 400% of the IPREM, and No Work at All

Means for yourself:
400% of the IPREM a month
Each dependent family member:
100% of the IPREM a month, in addition
How long it must be held:
For the whole validity of the permit, not shown once at the counter
Suriname

No Income or Private-Means Route: One Permit, Granted on Purpose Rather Than on a Category

Dedicated income or private-means route:
None
Income threshold:
None published
Residence permit:
At most two years, renewable
Sweden

One Sentence in the Aliens Act Is the Whole Route, and It Says May

Is there a passive-income route:
Yes, in one sentence of chapter 5, section 5 of the Aliens Act
Income threshold in the instrument:
None stated in chapter 5, section 5 of the Aliens Act
Is the permit a right:
No - the Act says may be granted
The Bahamas

Living in The Bahamas Without Working: the Permit to Reside

Statutory basis: Immigration Act s. 30(1)(a):
A permit to remain otherwise than to engage in gainful occupation
Annual fee for a residence permit:
$3,000 for each year or part of a year
Annual fee for a dependant:
$300 for each year or part of a year
Trinidad and Tobago

Living in Trinidad and Tobago on Income from Abroad

Passive-income or digital-nomad category:
None
Residence qualifying period:
5 years continuous
Shortest period the Minister may accept:
12 months
United States

No Passive-Income Route at All

A permit for living on your own money:
None
The nearest provision:
The employment creation preference, which requires ten jobs
What the corpus shows by comparison:
Spain, Portugal and Italy each have such a route; Germany and the United States do not
Uruguay

Permanent Residency on Means of Support

Income threshold:
None published
Foreign employment:
Accepted
Rents and pensions from abroad:
Accepted as their own category
Venezuela

Living in Venezuela on Income from Abroad

Income required:
USD 1,200 a month
Per accompanying family member:
USD 500 a month
Income must come from:
Abroad