Antigua and Barbuda Digital Nomad Visa: Requirements, Income & How to Apply (2026)

While it operated, the NDR was open to people employed by a company outside Antigua and Barbuda, and to the self-employed, freelancers, and business owners, as long as the work was remote and the income foreign-sourced. The main applicant had to be at least 18, and every applicant aged 16 or over had to provide a police clearance. Dependants could be added with their own documents.

Eligibility never depended on nationality, unlike some peers. What it required was evidence of genuine remote income and a clean background check, backed by a signed declaration of expected earnings.

The requirement was USD 50,000 a year, stated in US dollars even though the national currency is the East Caribbean dollar. Applicants proved it with a signed income declaration supported by pay stubs and bank statements. The USD 50,000 figure did not rise when you added a spouse or children; the program absorbed families through its fee tiers rather than by lifting the income line, so a family declared the same income floor as a single applicant plus the means to support dependants.

The tax position was the draw and remains a fact about the country: Antigua and Barbuda levies no personal income tax at all, having abolished it in 2016, so NDR holders paid nothing locally on foreign or any other income. There is also no capital gains, wealth, or inheritance tax. Because there is no income tax, the usual 183-day residency trigger carried no income-tax consequence. As always, that reaches local tax only; you keep whatever obligation you have where you are tax resident at home.

Families were welcome under the NDR. A spouse and children could be added as dependants, each with their own passport, insurance, and, for those aged 16 or over, a police clearance. The income requirement stayed at USD 50,000 rather than rising per person; the cost of adding family sat in the fee, which moved from USD 1,500 for a single applicant to USD 2,000 for a couple and USD 3,000 for a family of up to three dependants, plus USD 650 for each additional one.

While it ran, the NDR competed most directly with the Barbados Welcome Stamp: both set the income bar near USD 50,000, but Antigua offered two years to Barbados's renewable twelve months, and neither taxed foreign income. With the NDR closed, the live 2026 options in its bracket are Barbados, Dominica's eighteen-month Work In Nature stay, and Grenada's remote-work route, while the Cayman Islands offer two years to much higher earners. Anyone who was weighing Antigua should now treat Barbados or Dominica as the practical substitute.

The lesson from Antigua is a timing one that applies across the region: nomad programs open and close on government whim, and marketing pages lag reality by months. The NDR's own discontinuation notice was pulled from the immigration site after the program ended, yet third-party guides and even some official tourism pages still present it as open. Anyone building a move around a Caribbean stamp should verify current acceptance on a government portal before committing money or travel. While the NDR ran, the common friction points were the ones that still apply to its successors: evidencing a steady USD 50,000 for irregular freelance income, and assembling police clearances and stay-length insurance for every family member, which is what actually stretched a five-to-seven-day decision into weeks.