Iceland · Digital nomad
Long-Term Visa for Remote Workers
Open
Last verified July 2026Unconfirmed
Open. Deliberately capped at 180 days — below the 183-day tax residency threshold. Non-EEA/EFTA nationals only.
This is the rare digital nomad visa that is honest about what it is. The 180-day cap sits deliberately just below the 183-day tax residency line, so you stay taxable at home by design. Iceland is not trying to acquire you as a taxpayer — it is selling you six months of scenery. Read it that way and it is a good product; read it as a relocation strategy and it is useless.
Qualifying routes
1M ISK
Individual
monthly income, roughly EUR 6,900; must originate outside Iceland
1.3M ISK
With spouse or cohabiting partner
monthly income
The facts
- Qualifying figure
- 1M ISK
- Total landed cost
- ISK 12,200 per person, paid BEFORE submission — the application is not processed without the receipt.
- Timeline
- 1–2 months — roughly 3-4 weeks
- Physical presence
- Up to 180 days if applying from outside Iceland; 90 days if applying after entering Schengen
- Family
- spouse or cohabiting partner, at the higher income threshold
- Permanent residency
- NONE — explicitly does not lead to permanent residence
- Citizenship
- NONE
- Language test
- n/a
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- non-EEA/EFTA nationalityISK 1,000,000/month income (ISK 1,300,000 with a partner) from outside Icelandhealth insuranceno Icelandic long-term visa issued in the last 12 monthsfee paid before submission
What can go wrong
- 180 days maximum, and only 90 if you apply after already entering the Schengen area. The cap is deliberate — it keeps you below the 183-day tax residency threshold.
- It leads nowhere: no permanent residence, no citizenship, no accumulation.
- You must not have been issued an Icelandic long-term visa in the last 12 months, so it cannot be rolled.
- Non-EEA/EFTA nationals only.
- Income must originate outside Iceland.
- The fee must be paid before submission or the application is not processed at all.
- The official work.iceland.is page returned a 404 during research — every figure here comes from secondary sources. Verify with Útlendingastofnun before relying on any of it.