Andorra digital nomad visa & residency (2026)

Approved by the General Council on 22 January 2026 and published in the BOPA on 12 February 2026, Law 2/2026 raises the minimum investment for passive residency from €600,000 to €1,000,000 (reducible to €400,000 via the Housing Fund), makes AFA contributions non-refundable (€50,000 for the main applicant plus €12,000 per dependent), and increases foreign real-estate transfer taxes to 6–10%. This is the most significant tightening of Andorra's investor-residency framework in over a decade.

Approved by the General Council on 6 March 2025 and published in BOPA Núm. 33 on 26 March 2025, this law tightens immigration conditions (self-employment banned in the first year; sector changes restricted), freezes new tourist-rental licences, and limits foreign investors to acquiring at most two residential units. It represents a structural shift toward controlled immigration and housing access over growth.

Law 6/2024 mandates that foreign residents demonstrate Catalan at A1 level for the first renewal and A2 for the second, or complete 30 hours of Catalan-language training. The requirement applies to salaried workers from late 2024 and extends to self-employed and passive residents from 2029, adding an integration requirement for all new residents including digital nomads.

Published in BOPA Núm. 51 on 2 May 2024, Decree 167/2024 replaced earlier quota regulations and codified annual caps across residency categories, including the 50-permit cap for digital nomads and 50 for the entrepreneurship programme (shared pool of 100). It is the operative instrument governing how many remote-worker residencies Andorra grants each calendar year.

Decree 212/2023 set out the full procedural requirements for the digital nomad residency created by Law 42/2022: income proof equivalent to at least 3× the Andorran minimum wage (~€3,900–4,100/month), evidence of services provided exclusively to non-Andorran clients, and a 90-day minimum physical-presence requirement. With these regulations in place, the Immigration Office began accepting digital nomad applications from mid-2023.

Decree 11/2023 formally set the general quota for the new digital nomad residency at 50 permits per year, with a further 50 for participants in the government's entrepreneurship programme, sharing a combined maximum of 100. This strict cap makes Andorra's digital nomad permit one of the most selective in Europe and directly creates the waitlist dynamic applicants face today.

Enacted 1 December 2022 and published in BOPA Núm. 148 on 22 December 2022, Law 42/2022 introduced a dedicated immigration permit for 'digital nomads' — persons working remotely via technology for non-Andorran clients — across three profiles: employees of foreign companies, freelancers, and shareholders of foreign firms. It also legalised co-working/co-living spaces and telework contracts. This is the founding legislation for remote-worker residency in Andorra.

A concurrent amendment to the Qualified Immigration Law (Llei 9/2012) raised the passive residency investment threshold from €400,000 to €600,000 and tripled the non-interest AFA deposit for self-employed/shareholder applicants from €15,000 to €50,000, effective for all applications filed from that date. The changes significantly raised the financial bar for residence-by-investment that had been in place since 2012.

Llei 9/2012 (31 May 2012) comprehensively amended the foundational Qualified Immigration Law, formally codifying the modern distinction between active residency (183-day minimum stay, right to work in Andorra) and passive residency (90-day minimum, investment-based, no local employment), and embedding the financial-deposit rules. It set the structural framework under which all subsequent digital nomad and residency reforms have operated.