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Antigua and Barbuda
🇦🇬 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.

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
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Qualifying insurance

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