Nicaragua

Visa facts

• Maximum stay: 360 days
• Processing time: 15 - 15 days
• Dependents allowed: yes
• Remote work permission: explicitly allowed
• Renewal path: Renewable (official source indicates extension or renewal is available).
• Income requirement: 1000 USD / month
• Savings requirement: Data not published

Tax and compliance

Resident treatment: Nicaragua Ley 822 defines a territorial/source principle (income of Nicaraguan source) and sets resident status where permanence exceeds 180 continuous days. Non-resident treatment: the same law sets non-resident withholding treatment (including 20% for labor remuneration and specific definitive withholdings by category). Employee social contribution: INSS publishes 7% worker contribution rate. Assumptions: residency trigger is encoded as 181 to represent the legal test of permanence exceeding 180 continuous days; foreign_income_exemption is set to yes under the territorial/source principle in Ley 822 for ordinary income tax. Confidence: high (primary legal text and official tax/social institutions directly provide the key parameters).

Cost and infrastructure

• Monthly cost baseline: $732
• Rent (1BR city center): $245
• Internet: $37
• Coworking: Data not published

Method (USD, LivingCost country table, retrieved 2026-02-27): poor=720.0 (without-rent basket + cheap 1BR + one-person utility bill + internet), average=732.1 (LivingCost 'Total with rent'), comfortable=780.48 (without-rent basket + city-center 1BR + one-person utility bill + internet). monthly_cost_single_usd is set to the average baseline. City coverage on source page: 10. Confidence: medium (crowdsourced, country-level averages).