Iceland · Digital nomad
Long-Term Visa for Remote Workers
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Last verified July 2026Unconfirmed
Open, but deliberately capped at 180 days, below the 183-day tax residency threshold. Available only to non-EEA/EFTA nationals.
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, and it must originate outside Iceland
1.3M ISK
With spouse or cohabiting partner
monthly income
The facts
- Minimum
- 1M ISK
- Total landed cost
- ISK 12,200 per person, paid before submission. The application will not be processed without the receipt.
- Route type
- Income requirement
- 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. It explicitly does not lead to permanent residence.
- Citizenship
- None
- Language test
- Not applicable
- 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. There is 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 over.
- Non-EEA/EFTA nationals only.
- Income must originate outside Iceland.
- The fee must be paid before submission, or the application will not be processed at all.
- The official work.iceland.is page returned a 404 during research, so every figure here comes from secondary sources. Verify with Útlendingastofnun before relying on any of it.