Mauritius · Digital nomad
Premium Travel Visa
Open
Last verified July 2026
Open and operating. Free of charge. The Budget 2026-27 extended the same tax treatment to the new Golden Visa.
The tax treatment is unusually well-drafted for a nomad visa: foreign employment income is taxed only if remitted, spending locally on a foreign card is expressly not a remittance, and funds already taxed abroad can be brought in tax-free on declaration. It is the cheapest legitimate way to test-drive Mauritian residence before committing capital.
Qualifying routes
$1.5k
Remote worker, retiree or long-stay visitor
minimum USD 1,500 per month per adult applicant, plus USD 500 per month per dependent child
The facts
- Qualifying figure
- $1.5k
- Total landed cost
- No government fee. Budget for health insurance and a return ticket, both of which must have more than 6 months' validity.
- Timeline
- 1–2 months — processed online; typically a few weeks
- Physical presence
- Multi-entry, valid for more than 6 months up to 1 year, renewable. Stay beyond 180 days in a calendar year triggers the tax questions below.
- Family
- spousedependent children at USD 500 per month each
- Permanent residency
- None directly, but a Premium Visa holder in Mauritius may apply for an Occupation Permit or a Retired Non-Citizen Residence Permit from within the country
- Citizenship
- None — Premium Visa time does not build a naturalisation clock
- Language test
- not applicable
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted — you would have to renounce
- Requirements
- proof of monthly income of USD 1,500 per adult / USD 500 per childbank statements for the last 3 monthstravel and health insurance valid for the stayreturn ticketmain business and income source outside Mauritius
What can go wrong
- Your main place of business and source of income and profits must remain outside Mauritius — this is not a route to working locally.
- Mauritian-source income (including work physically performed in Mauritius for a local payer) is taxable regardless of the visa.
- It builds nothing. No permanent residence clock, no naturalisation clock, no security of tenure — it is a one-year permission, renewable at discretion.
- Spending 183+ days makes you tax-resident, which brings the remittance basis but also the new 35% band on remitted and local income above MUR 12m.
- The favourable card-spending rule is an administrative concession embedded in the Income Tax Act; it has been amended before and can be again.