Digital Nomad & Residency - Belgium

Belgium has no specific digital-nomad or remote-work visa; remote workers must fit an existing immigration route, most commonly the self-employed/professional-card pathway, or use a Schengen short-stay (Type C) visa which does not permit working in Belgium.

Third-country nationals wishing to carry out a self-employed activity in Belgium must obtain a professional card; nationals of the EEA (EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein) and Switzerland are exempt.

For stays over 90 days, applicants must request a national (Type D) long-stay visa at a Belgian diplomatic/consular post; if conditions are met they receive the D-visa, professional card and a residence permit. The application is forwarded to the economic-migration department of the region where the activity will take place.

Economic migration (the professional card) is a regional competence; applications are handled by the relevant region — Brussels-Capital, Flanders or Wallonia — based on where the self-employed activity is exercised.

EU, EEA and Swiss nationals enjoy free movement and may reside and work remotely in Belgium without a visa or professional card, registering locally if staying beyond three months.

Belgium has no statutory residency-by-investment ('golden visa') scheme; investors seeking residence use the same professional-card/self-employed framework on a discretionary, case-by-case basis (Belgium has never operated a real-estate-based golden visa, unlike some EU peers).