Namibia · Digital nomad
Namibia Digital Nomad Visa
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Last verified July 2026
Open and officially administered by the Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board. Six months, non-renewable — you may only reapply 12 months after expiry.
A clean, cheap, honestly designed six-month visa for a spectacular country with territorial taxation. It is explicitly a visitor product — it builds nothing, and the non-renewable design with a 12-month cooling-off period is unusually candid about that.
Qualifying routes
$2k
Remote worker
USD 2,000 per month for the applicant, USD 1,000 for a spouse, USD 500 per child
The facts
- Qualifying figure
- $2k
- Total landed cost
- NAD 3,300 application fee plus travel and insurance
- Timeline
- 1–3 months — administered by NIPDB
- Physical presence
- 6 months, non-renewable; reapplication only permitted 12 months after expiry
- Family
- spouse at USD 1,000 per montheach child at USD 500 per month
- Permanent residency
- None
- Citizenship
- None
- Language test
- not applicable
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted — you would have to renounce
- Requirements
- proof of remote income of USD 2,000 per monthemployment or client contracts outside Namibiamedical insuranceclean record
What can go wrong
- Non-renewable, with a mandatory 12-month gap before reapplying. This cannot be rolled into continuous residence.
- No path to permanent residence or citizenship whatsoever.
- The NAD is pegged 1:1 to the ZAR, so Namibian currency risk is South African currency risk.
- Namibia remains on the EU AML high-risk list despite FATF delisting in June 2026 — expect banking friction.