🇸🇨 Seychelles
Seychelles
The whole move — visa, taxes, insurance, money and cost of living — in one place.
Visa & Residency
Workcation Permit
Comfortable solo budget
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Stay
1 year
Taxes Abroad
Territorial taxation
Living in Seychelles
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 1 year Seychelles → 🧾 Taxes Abroad
Territorial taxation Tax-residency trigger: 183 days Seychelles → 🩺 Health Insurance
Required (explicit) Seychelles → 💶 Cost of Living
€1,500–€2,500/mo Victoria Seychelles → 🛡️ Health System
No public access Emergency: 999 Seychelles → 🏡 Housing & Relocation
2 mo rent Seychelles → Good to know
- Furnished and fully equipped units are standard, so a nomad can move in and work with minimal setup
- Active monthly/extended-stay segment (tourism villas, serviced apartments, Airbnb) suits stays of a few months
- Tax-funded Beveridge system; primary care is free at the point of use for citizens, with the right to free primary care enshrined in Article 29 of the Constitution.
- Tourists and non-residents are not covered by the free system and must pay: about SCR 100 (~EUR 6-7) for a government-clinic consultation and roughly SCR 150-300 (~EUR 9-18) for a private walk-in.
Watch out for
- Without a residence permit you are generally limited to tourism-licensed/validated accommodation, which narrows long-term options and can raise cost
- Genuine budget housing is scarce; the market is small and skews upscale, so supply (especially furnished long-term) can be tight
- The free public system is for Seychellois citizens; temporary residents and tourists must pay out of pocket for treatment even at public facilities, so private/travel health insurance is essential.
- Specialist and advanced care is limited on the islands — serious cases are often referred or medically evacuated abroad, so repatriation/evacuation insurance is strongly advised (echoed by US and UK government travel advice).
Cost of living
| Victoria | €1,500–€2,500/mo |
Qualifying insurance
Nomad Insurance (Essential and Complete plans) €54.36/mo Genki Traveler (successor to Genki Explorer, which was retired) €63.90/mo Cigna Global Health Options – International Health Plans (Silver / Gold / Platinum) —
Qualifying insurance →