🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
The whole move — visa, taxes, insurance, money and cost of living — in one place.
Visa & Residency
NDR
Comfortable solo budget
€3,860/mo
Stay
2 years
Taxes Abroad
No personal income tax
Living in Antigua and Barbuda
The visa is step one. Here is the rest of what it takes to live here — each researched and sourced.
🛂 Visa & Residency
Digital nomad visa €3,860/mo Antigua and Barbuda → 🧾 Taxes Abroad
No personal income tax Antigua and Barbuda → 🩺 Health Insurance
Required (explicit) Antigua and Barbuda → 💶 Cost of Living
€2,000–€2,900/mo St. John's Antigua and Barbuda → 🛡️ Health System
No public access Emergency: 911 Antigua and Barbuda → 🏡 Housing & Relocation
1 mo rent Antigua and Barbuda → Good to know
- Established Nomad Digital Residence (NDR) visa lets remote workers stay up to two years, with abundant furnished monthly and multi-month options aimed at nomads and no local tax on foreign-earned income for NDR holders
- Strong, well-developed short- and mid-term furnished market (villas, apartments) — easy to land somewhere move-in ready without buying furniture
- English is the official language, so language is rarely a barrier when seeing doctors or at hospitals.
- Emergency services reach 911 (999 also works); a dedicated national Emergency Medical Services operates ambulances, provides on-scene stabilisation and transports patients to Mount St John's Medical Centre.
Watch out for
- Supply skews toward vacation/seasonal property, so genuine long-term residential stock is thinner and often requires a 6-month (sometimes 12-month) minimum commitment
- Upfront cost can be heavy: a common long-term package is three months in advance (first month + last month + one month security deposit), and new arrivals without local credit history may be asked for extra months
- The Medical Benefits Scheme — the route to subsidised public care — requires non-nationals to be legally resident for 12 consecutive months and to make at least 6 months of contributions before claiming, so digital nomads and short-term residents cannot use it and will pay as private patients.
- Medical treatment is not free for non-residents and can be expensive; the UK government and CDC both stress arranging comprehensive travel-health insurance plus accessible funds before arrival.
Cost of living
| St. John's | €2,000–€2,900/mo |
Qualifying insurance
Nomad Insurance (Essential and Complete plans) €54.36/mo Cigna Global Health Options – International Health Plans (Silver / Gold / Platinum) — Genki Traveler (successor to Genki Explorer, which was retired) €63.90/mo
Qualifying insurance →