Best Visas to Apply For Now

The Digital Nomad Visa itself needs $3,000 a month (or $36,000 a year), costs $75 to file, and runs 12 months with one renewal to 24 total. What changed this year sits outside the visa: Law No. 7582, in force from 2026, added a 20-year exemption on foreign-source income for people who become Turkish tax residents and had no Turkish domicile or tax liability in the prior three years. It's a tax-residency rule, not a visa perk, and the implementing details still sit with the Ministry of Treasury and Finance.

Note: You need a university degree and to be 21–55 from a published list of eligible nationalities, the application can't be filed fully online, and the 20-year tax break depends on becoming a tax resident under rules that are still being implemented — don't assume it applies automatically just because you hold the visa.

The E33G Remote Worker visa — the one now modelled on this site after the old tourist-visa workaround was retired — asks for $60,000 a year in income from a company based outside Indonesia, costs around $430 (officially Rp7,000,000), and is filed and extended entirely online for an initial 12 months. Foreign income generally sits outside Indonesian tax as long as you don't trip the 183-day residency threshold, though the site itself recommends professional advice once you approach it.

Note: The $60,000/year bar is high relative to most of Southeast Asia, the processing time is officially listed as 'varies' with no published window, and the visa confers no path to residency — it's a renewable 12-month permit, not a settlement route.

The Czech route runs through a trade license (Živnostenský list) for IT and marketing work, with an income bar of about 69,836 CZK/month (~$3,200, 1.5x the Czech average salary) and a $110 fee. The 60/40 flat-expense method lets you deduct 60% of income before the 15% rate applies, which works out to roughly 6% of gross income — one of the lowest effective tax burdens on this site for a programme that still taxes you rather than exempting you outright.

Note: This is not open to all non-EU nationals — it's restricted to a published country list (Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, the UK, the US and a few others under review), it's limited to IT and marketing activity, you can't have held a Czech visa or permit in the last 365 days, and the application can't be filed online.

At $25, Japan's digital nomad visa has the lowest application fee of any programme on this site, and the stated 5–14 day decision is among the fastest. It asks for over ¥10,000,000 a year (roughly $65,000–67,000) from work for a non-Japanese employer, and foreign-sourced income is exempt from Japanese tax because holders aren't treated as tax residents. There is no renewal: it's a single six-month stay, after which you must spend six consecutive months outside Japan before reapplying.

Note: The six-month cap is absolute — there's no extension — and eligibility is limited to citizens of a specific list of countries with relevant tax treaties. Working for a Japanese company is prohibited under this status.

The Class N digital nomad permit needs $24,000 a year (about $2,000 a month) from non-Kenyan sources — the lowest threshold in this edition — and foreign income stays outside Kenyan tax under its source-based system. The catch is the fee: at $1,200, made up of a $200 processing fee plus a $1,000-a-year issuance charge, it's one of the most expensive filings on the site relative to the income bar it's paired with. It's issued as a 1- or 2-year permit and is renewable.

Note: The $1,200 fee is paid regardless of how modest the income requirement is, the permit carries no path to residency, and the application needs a police clearance certificate and a cover letter addressed to the Director General of Immigration Services, not just a form.