Philippines Digital Nomad Visa

Requirements

• Be at least 18 years old.
• ⚠ RECIPROCITY, and it is the condition that decides most applications: you must be a national of a country that itself offers digital nomad visas to Filipinos, AND where the Philippines maintains a Foreign Service Post. No definitive list of qualifying countries has been published, so eligibility cannot be determined from public sources for most nationalities — ask the Philippine embassy or consulate for your country before making any plan around this visa.
• Work remotely using digital technologies for clients or employers located OUTSIDE the Philippines.
• Proof of sufficient income generated outside the Philippines. ⚠ The Executive Order states no figure. Widely published thresholds of USD 2,000 a month or USD 24,000 a year do NOT appear in the text and we could not verify them against any Department of Foreign Affairs page.
• Must not be employed in the Philippines.
• Valid health insurance covering the period of stay — a stated condition of the visa, not a recommendation.
• No criminal record, and no security threat to the Philippines.

How to apply

1. Confirm your nationality qualifies under the reciprocity condition with the Philippine embassy or consulate covering your country. This is the step that ends most applications and no public list answers it.
2. Register on the Philippine eVisa portal at evisa.gov.ph and complete the digital nomad visa application.
3. Upload proof of remote work, proof of income generated outside the Philippines, health insurance covering the stay, and a police clearance.
4. The Department of Foreign Affairs issues the visa through the Philippine Foreign Service Post handling your application.

Renewal and long-term stay

• Renewable: yes
• Path to permanent residency: no — time on this visa does not lead to residency

Executive Order No. 86 sets the stay at up to one year and states that holders may renew for the same duration, with multiple-entry privileges available during validity. The text sets no cap on the number of renewals and no residency or citizenship path attaches to the visa, so max_total_years is left blank rather than guessed.

Applying: where and how

• Apply from outside the country: yes — apply before you travel
• Where you file: either at a consulate or in-country, depending on where you start

SOURCE, stated plainly because it is not the Official Gazette. The text of Executive Order No. 86 was read on 2026-08-25 at lawphil.net, the Arellano Law Foundation's Philippine law library and the standard citation source for Philippine legal texts. The Official Gazette's own copy (officialgazette.gov.ph) and the Department of Foreign Affairs site both return HTTP 403 to automated reads, so neither could be checked directly; the Bureau of Immigration and the eVisa portal are reachable but publish no digital nomad visa terms. Everything recorded here comes from the Executive Order's operative text. WHAT MAKES THIS ROUTE DIFFERENT FROM ITS REPUTATION. Two claims are near-universal in coverage of this visa and neither survives the text. The first is an income threshold: there is none in the Executive Order. The second is that the Philippines has 'opened' to digital nomads generally — it has not, because the reciprocity condition limits it to nationals of countries that offer Filipinos the same thing and host a Philippine Foreign Service Post, and the qualifying list has not been published. A visa that is genuinely issuing, to an undisclosed set of nationalities, on an unstated income bar, is a different proposition from the one being marketed. Note also what this does NOT replace. The SRRV remains the route for anyone 40 or over who can place the deposit: it is permanent residency on issue with no reciprocity gate and no renewal cycle, where this visa is a one-year non-immigrant stay.

Bringing a partner or children

Executive Order No. 86 as published does not address accompanying dependants, so we record nothing. Whether spouses and children can be included is a question for the Foreign Service Post handling the application.

Tax

• Special nomad or expat tax regime: no — ordinary resident rates apply

Executive Order No. 86 contains no tax provisions at all — it neither exempts the holder nor states when Philippine tax residency attaches. Several guides present this visa as carrying a foreign-income exemption; that is not in the instrument that creates it. We have not verified the Philippines' resident-alien treatment of foreign income against a Bureau of Internal Revenue source, so all three tax fields are blank rather than filled from inference.

This summarises published rules, not your situation, and it is not tax advice. Two things it can't tell you: your home country may tax you anyway — US citizens are taxed on worldwide income wherever they live — and day-count is only the most common trigger for tax residency, not the only one. Having a permanent home, a family or your centre of economic interests in a country can make you resident well before the day count does. Get advice before you move.

Moving abroad means more than the visa — sort your travel insurance (many visa applications require proof of coverage), set up borderless banking, and land with data working.

First nomad visa? Our digital nomad visa guide explains how qualifying, applying, and taxes work across every country.