🇸🇨 Seychelles Digital nomad visa

All requirements in detail

Official name

Seychelles Visitors' Workcation Permit (Workcation Retreat Programme)

Visa type

Digital nomad visa

Status

Active

Income basis

Mixed (salary, freelance or savings)

Legal basis

No official minimum monthly income is published by the Government of Seychelles for the Workcation Permit. The eligibility test is qualitative: the applicant's business and source of income must be outside Seychelles, and the applicant must show a stable source of income or sufficient savings. Evidence is proof of steady income/savings (bank statements; for employees an employer/employment letter, for the self-employed business-ownership/registration proof), plus accommodation and onward-travel proof. One third-party visa aggregator (openvisa.org) cites '$1,500/month' but does not attribute this to any government source; it is not adopted here. No reliable EUR conversion of an official threshold is possible because no official threshold exists.

Proof of funds

Required

Family surcharges

No published per-dependant income surcharge. The programme is explicitly open to singles, couples and families; the one-time EUR 45 permit fee is described as covering the applicant and immediate family travelling together. No separate dependant income multiplier is published.

Working for local clients

Not allowed

Path to citizenship

No

Where to apply

Online

Processing time

0.07–2 weeks

Tax residency trigger

183 days

Insurance requirement, verbatim intent: Valid medical/travel health insurance covering the entire stay is required (confirmed in the original launch announcement quoting the Seychelles Tourism Board). Coverage must include medical treatment and hospital care while in Seychelles (the original 2021/COVID-era rules also required COVID-19 cover; pandemic-specific conditions have since been relaxed). No official minimum coverage amount is published. International health insurance or a comprehensive travel policy with hospitalisation and emergency cover is the practical standard. Foreign visitors are not covered by Seychelles' public health service and must pay for treatment, so adequate insurance is both an entry condition and a financial necessity.

Tax notes: Seychelles operates a territorial tax system: per the Seychelles Revenue Commission (src.gov.sc), only Seychelles-source income is liable to tax in Seychelles, and non-Seychelles-source income has historically been non-taxable. Because a Workcation Permit holder's income is by definition earned from a business/employer outside Seychelles, that foreign-source income is not subject to Seychelles personal income tax. General Seychelles tax-residency rule: an individual is treated as tax-resident if present 183+ days in a tax year (or if Seychelles is their permanent home / centre of vital interests) — this 183-day figure is from reputable secondary tax sources, not a permit-specific rule; no separate day-count trigger is published for Workcation Permit holders, and the permit (max 12 months) is a short-stay visitor authorisation, not in itself a residence/tax-residence status. Seychelles-source personal income (which a permit holder is not allowed to earn, since local employment is prohibited) is taxed progressively; reported bands are approximately 0% up to ~SCR 102,666 then 15% then 25%, but secondary sources disagree on the exact SCR thresholds, and the SRC page consulted covers business tax rather than the personal-income schedule, so treat the bracket figures as indicative only. Anti-avoidance 'covered company' / economic-substance rules introduced from 16 Sept 2021 target Seychelles-incorporated companies in multinational groups, not foreign remote workers' personal salaries. Tax residence in the worker's home country may still apply; this is not tax advice.

Beyond the visa

Seychelles — 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.