🇩🇴 Dominican Republic Long-stay visa

All requirements in detail

Official name

No dedicated digital-nomad visa. Remote workers use either (a) the tourist card + stay extension ("Prórroga de Estadía para Turistas", Dirección General de Migración) for short/medium stays, or (b) the Rentista/Pensionado residence under Law No. 171-07 ("Incentivos Especiales a los Pensionados y Rentistas de Fuente Extranjera") for long stays. A digital-nomad-visa bill is pending in the Senate but not enacted.

Visa type

Long-stay visa

Status

Active

Income requirement (original currency)

2,000 USD / month

Income basis

Savings accepted

Legal basis

Long-stay route = Rentista residence under Law 171-07: minimum stable monthly income of US$2,000 from foreign sources (foreign bank deposits, investments abroad, foreign real-estate rents, foreign-currency securities interest, or local investments funded from abroad; rentista income generally must be shown as stable for ~5 years); +US$250/month per dependent. The Pensionado variant requires a US$1,500/month foreign pension. EUR figures at USD/EUR 0.8612 (rate on 2026-06-15): US$2,000 ≈ EUR 1,722; US$1,500 ≈ EUR 1,292; US$250 ≈ EUR 215. The short-stay tourist-card extension route has no published fixed income threshold — DGM only requires generic 'solvencia económica' (proof of own funds) plus a medical certificate; no figure is officially published, so it is treated as savings_accepted.

Proof of funds

Required

Family surcharges

Under Law 171-07, each qualifying dependent (spouse; unmarried children under 18; incapacitated adult children; dependent university students) requires an additional US$250/month (≈ EUR 215 at 0.8612) of documented income on top of the principal's US$2,000 (Rentista) or US$1,500 (Pensionado). Confirmed by the law text (DGII) and multiple Dominican law firms.

Working for local clients

Limited

Path to citizenship

Via permanent residence

Where to apply

Embassy / consulate, In country, Online

Processing time

1–9 weeks

Tax residency trigger

182 days

Insurance requirement, verbatim intent: There is no digital-nomad-visa insurance rule because no such visa exists. For the tourist-card stay extension (prórroga), the migration agency requires a medical certificate but publishes no minimum health-insurance coverage. For the Law 171-07 residence route, the migration agency's document checklist (as documented by multiple Dominican law firms and residency practitioners) requires a completed medical exam in the Dominican Republic plus proof of a comprehensive health-insurance policy that provides coverage in the country — so insurance is effectively required. No official minimum coverage figure or fixed duration is published in the gazette. Residents who obtain a cédula can enrol in the national health-insurance system (SeNaSa/ARS).

Tax notes: The DR taxes individuals essentially on a territorial basis: foreigners who become resident are generally exempt from Dominican income tax on foreign-source income, and even foreign financial/investment income (dividends, interest, capital gains earned abroad) is exempt for the first three years of residency, becoming potentially taxable only from year three onward. Under Law 171-07, a Pensionado/Rentista's qualifying foreign pension or rental income is exempt from income tax indefinitely (the standard year-3 rule on foreign financial income does not apply to them), with further benefits (first-property transfer-tax exemption, 50% property tax, 50% mortgage tax, exemption on dividends/interest, 50% capital-gains exemption). Tax residency is triggered by spending more than 182 days in the country during the fiscal year. Not legal/tax advice — confirm current treatment with a Dominican tax adviser.

Beyond the visa

Dominican Republic — the rest of the move

The visa is step one. Here is the rest of what it takes to live here — each researched and sourced.