Greece digital nomad visa: €3,500 a month net, a €75 visa for a year, then a two-year permit

Greece's digital nomad route is short: one article of the Migration Code, a visa that lasts up to a year, and a permit after it that runs for two. What it does not say on the label is that the income test is net of tax, that a freelancer must show more than one client, and that the tax regime Greece advertises to people relocating there is built for the opposite case — work for a Greek employer.

Everything below is quoted from the instruments, read on 25 October 2026 on taxheaven.gr in their consolidated texts: article 68 of Law 5038/2023, the Migration Code, codified to Law 5307/2026; article 10 of ministerial decision 95391/2024, which lists the documents and the fees for each permit; and article 5C of Law 4172/2013, the Income Tax Code.

Greece digital nomad visa: article 68 of the Migration Code

Article 68 §1 grants the visa to third-country nationals who are "self-employed, freelancers or employees" able to work remotely "using information and communication technologies, for employers or clients outside Greece". The law calls them digital nomads, and the permit category is Ζ.1.

The consulate issues a national visa for up to twelve months. Article 68 §2 obliges it to answer within ten days of the request and to complete the process "in one stop" for the applicant. The file can be handed in person, sent by email, or sent by registered post.

Citizens of the EU, the EEA and Switzerland need none of this and can work remotely from Greece under free movement.

Greece digital nomad visa requirements: €3,500 a month, net of tax

The amount is written into the law itself, not a ministerial decision: article 68 §2(ε) sets sufficient resources at "three and a half thousand (3,500) euros a month". Two details matter more than the figure.

For an employee it is net. "If the sufficient resources come from salaried employment, services or work, the above minimum refers to net income after payment of the required taxes in the country where the work is performed." A remote employee on €3,500 gross does not qualify.

It can be averaged over the year. Ministerial decision 95391/2024, article 10, says the figure "is examined either on a monthly or an annual basis, on average". Uneven freelance income is tested against €42,000 over the year rather than month by month.

The income is proved by the employment or services contract for an employee, or by a business or personal bank account for anyone self-employed.

Who qualifies for the Greece digital nomad visa: employees, freelancers and business owners

Article 68 §2 and article 10 of the decision set out three cases, and each needs its own evidence.

• An employee files an employment contract with an employer established outside Greece — open-ended, or fixed-term with enough left to cover the visa — and proof of his role and that he can do the job remotely.
• A freelancer must show more than one contract with clients established outside Greece. A single client does not satisfy the decision's wording for a freelancer.
• The owner of a business abroad files evidence of his role in it.

In every case the decision asks for details of the foreign business itself — its name, seat, field and purpose — "in particular registration with a service equivalent to the General Commercial Registry" in its own country, its website, or other public sources. A business that cannot be shown to exist publicly is a weak file.

The applicant also signs a declaration that he intends to work remotely and "will not in any way provide work, services or work to an employer based in Greece".

Greece digital nomad visa cost: €75, then €1,000

The visa fee is in article 68 §2(στ) and repeated in the decision. The permit fee is in article 10 of the decision, together with proof of accommodation — a lease, a purchase contract or a grant of use — and a private health insurance contract.

From the Greece digital nomad visa to a two-year residence permit

The visa is not the end of the route. Article 68 §4 lets the holder and his family, while the conditions still hold, receive a residence permit for persons with sufficient resources, type Ι.8, "of two years' duration", on an application filed before the visa expires with the Aliens and Migration Directorate of the Decentralised Administration where he lives.

Article 10 of the decision says the nomad's Ι.8 permit is then renewed under article 163 §8, the provision for people living on their own resources — the same permit a retiree uses, which renews three years at a time. So the nomad route is a door into Greece's general income permit, at the same €3,500 a month.

Family members and work on the Greece digital nomad visa

Article 68 §3 lets the nomad bring a spouse or registered partner and unmarried children under 18, each with a visa that ends on the same day as his. During their stay the family may not take employment or carry on economic activity of any kind in Greece.

The nomad himself may do one thing in Greece: the remote work for foreign employers or clients the visa was granted for.

Greece digital nomad tax: resident at 183 days, and why the 50% break does not fit

The visa says nothing about tax. A nomad who spends more than 183 days in Greece in a year becomes a Greek tax resident and is taxed on worldwide income under the general rules.

Greece advertises a halving of income tax for people who move there, and nomads are often told it applies to them. Article 5C of Law 4172/2013 exempts 50% of employment income earned in Greece to a person who moves his tax residence to Greece — but only if, cumulatively, he "provides services in Greece within an employment relationship" exercised "either in a domestic legal person or legal entity or in a permanent establishment of a foreign enterprise in Greece". A remote employee of a foreign company with no Greek establishment does not meet that condition, and the nomad visa forbids him from taking a Greek employer.

Whether a self-employed nomad's income can count as business activity "arising in Greece" under the same article is a narrower question, and one to put to a Greek tax adviser before relying on it.

Greece digital nomad visa or the income permit directly

For a retiree, the income permit is the direct route, and it is covered in retiring in Greece. For anyone still working remotely, the nomad route is the one written for them, and it costs €105 less at the visa stage.

Frequently asked questions

Where this sits in the rest of the site

The income permit, the golden visa and the family rules are in the Greek residence guide. The income route for retirees, with its 7% pension regime, is in retiring in Greece. What life costs region by region is in the guide to living in Greece. Every figure here is traced on the sources page. How this route compares with five other countries' nomad visas — income, cost, term and what comes after — is in digital nomad visa countries.

If you plan to work remotely from Greece

We do not give legal or tax advice. What we do is put a person who knows what they are asking in front of a licensed adviser in Greece. The questions that decide this route are rarely the €3,500. They are whether your income is net enough, whether your business can be shown to exist in public registers, and how your income will be taxed once you pass 183 days. Send them through the enquiry form. We take no part in the fee.

Sources: where each figure comes from

• The visa, its twelve months, the ten-day answer, the evidence for employees, freelancers and owners, €3,500 net, the 20% and 15% uplifts, the €75 fee, the family rule and the switch to a two-year Ι.8 permit: Law 5038/2023, article 68, consolidated to Law 5307/2026, read 25 October 2026.
• The monthly or annual average, the business-registry evidence, more than one contract for a freelancer, the €1,000 permit fee, accommodation, private insurance and renewal under article 163 §8: ministerial decision 95391/2024, article 10, consolidated text, read 25 October 2026.
• The 50% regime and its Greek-employer condition: Law 4172/2013, article 5C, consolidated to Law 5327/2026, read 25 October 2026.
• The €180 visa for the income permit and its three-year term: as recorded on our Greek retirement page.
• Not published here: whether a self-employed nomad's income falls within article 5C; and how long consulates take in practice against the ten-day duty.