Colombia · Digital nomad
V Visa — Digital Nomad
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Last verified July 2026
Resolución 5477 of 2022, article 46(4), read directly from the text. It requires 3 SMMLV of income per month and is valid for up to two years.
This is one of the lowest income bars of any digital nomad visa anywhere, about USD 1,615 a month, in a country with real infrastructure to back it up. But it is a dead end by design. None of it counts toward residency or citizenship.
Qualifying routes
5.25M COP
Remote work or digital entrepreneurship income of 3 SMMLV/month
3 times SMMLV 1,750,905 works out to COP 5,252,715 per month, or roughly USD 1,615 per month at a TRM of 3,252.11 on 15 July 2026.
The facts
- Minimum
- 5.25M COP
- Total landed cost
- Roughly USD 300–600 in visa fees, plus legal costs if you use a lawyer
- Route type
- Income requirement
- Timeline
- 1–2 months (One of the faster nomad visas in the region)
- Physical presence
- No minimum stay. The visa is valid for up to two years
- Family
- Spouse or permanent partnerDependent children
- Permanent residency
- None. Time spent on the V visa does not count toward the R visa
- Citizenship
- No path to citizenship through this route
- Language test
- Not applicable
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- 3 SMMLV/month of documented remote income from a foreign sourcehealth insurance valid in Colombiaclean criminal recordmotivation letter describing the remote work or venture
What can go wrong
- V visa time does not count toward the R visa or toward naturalisation. If you want a future in Colombia, this is the wrong visa. Two years on it are two wasted years. Use an M visa instead.
- Holding a nomad visa does not exempt you from tax residency. Spend 183 days in any 365-day window and you become a Colombian tax resident. That brings worldwide income tax at up to 39% and a wealth tax on worldwide net assets above ~USD 1.16M. Nomads on this visa routinely trip this threshold without realising it.
- The income threshold is a wage multiple, and it resets each January. The SMMLV itself is under litigation.