Entrepreneur visas

Albania taxes small business at zero. Getting the permit is the work.

Register a company, keep turnover under about $176,000, and Albania charges no income tax on it until 2029. This is what the self-employed permit asks for, and what it still costs you.

Austria's Artist Visa

Austria has a settlement permit built for working artists, and five years on it turns into permanent residence. You prove about $1,510 a month from your art, and you bring A1 German with you.

Canada's Start-up Visa Is Paused

IRCC stopped taking applications on June 30, 2026 and promised a new entrepreneur pilot instead. Here is where that leaves American founders.

Chile's $500,000 investor visa only counts if the money produces something

A Chilean government agency has to vouch for your project before the immigration service will even open your file.

Keep Your Job. Move to Costa Rica.

Live in Costa Rica for up to two years, tax-free, on the money you earn from home.

Starting a business in Dominica: the entrepreneur visa, checked

The $50,000 business route you keep reading about traces back to one 2020 press release. The permit that is on Dominica's own forms costs EC$800 and runs a year at a time.

Ecuador's easiest door to residency

If you hold a university degree, the Professional Visa lets you live and work in Ecuador on about $482 a month.

Build Your Own Business in France

The entrepreneur/profession liberale visa lets you live in France and run your own business, no French boss required.

Freelance your way into Germany

The Freiberufler permit is how Americans move to Germany without an employer. Here's who qualifies, what the file has to prove, and the catches nobody mentions.

Italy answers startup founders in 30 days

The money test is 50,000 euros for the whole founding team. The hard test is how narrowly Italian law defines an innovative startup.

Move to the Netherlands on the DAFT Visa

The simplest way for American entrepreneurs to live and work in the Netherlands. Start a business, get a two-year permit, and bring the family.

Netherlands Startup Visa: a year to build something new

Sign with an RVO-recognized facilitator, pass the innovation test, and the IND gives you twelve months to turn the idea into a Dutch company.

A Panama work permit that isn't tied to an employer

It turns a university degree into residency and the right to work. Here is who qualifies, what has to clear the University of Panama first, and what it costs.

Move to Portugal on the D2 Entrepreneur Visa

Bring your business, or start one.

Move to Portugal on the D7 Visa

You don't have to figure it out alone.

Start or move your business to Spain

A three-year residence and work permit for non-EU founders.