Where you can live on an income from abroad if your passport is from Slovakia
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
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Where your nationality changes the answer
BulgariaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10
Fifty Minimum Wages Is a Question Bulgaria Never Asks a Union Citizen
reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area
The general rule it sits on
Bulgaria opened a route for people living on money earned elsewhere in June 2025, and it is narrower than it sounds. Article 24(1)(23) of the Aliens Act, added by ДВ бр. 52 от 2025 г., lets a "digital nomad" get the ordinary one-year continuing-residence permit; article 24s sets the price of entry at an average annual income of not less than 50 minimum monthly wages for the previous calendar year, measured on gross income, on top of the general conditions in article 24(2) - secured housing, compulsory health insurance, and means of support of at least the minimum monthly wage, stipend or pension. The definition in paragraph 1(36) of the supplementary provisions is where the route is actually drawn: an employment contract with an employer established outside the Union, the EEA and Switzerland; or ownership of more than 25 per cent of such a company; or a year of providing remote services in a personal capacity - and in the second and third cases, on condition that no work is done and no services are supplied to anyone on Bulgarian territory. The permit runs for a year and may be extended once, for one more year, and that is the whole of it: there is no third year on this ground.
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.
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 Slovakia differently on this question, so what follows is what everyone gets.
BulgariaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10
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