Grenada's nomad visa: $37,000 a year and a trip to the post office
The bar is EC$100,000 of income earned outside Grenada, about US$37,000. The fee is $1,500. There is no online application: you print the form and mail it to an embassy.
Grenada wrote remote work into law in 2021 and never put the application online. Here 's the income test, what goes in the envelope, what a working week looks like, and the U.S. tax math that does not change.
What you get
Twelve months, and then twelve more
Parliament passed the Remote Employment Act in May 2021 and the permit went live that October. It runs a year at a time, and you can apply once for a second year. That's the whole run.
It doesn't buy you a job here. You can't work for a Grenadian company, run a business on the island, or charge Grenadian clients without the Ministry of Labour signing off. Lose the income that justified it and the permit can be revoked.
A spouse and children can come along. The children can't attend a public school while the permit lasts, so private school is the only option and the fees are yours. Nothing published connects this route to permanent residency, either. Plan around the end date rather than hoping it turns into something.
Four figures to settle before you print anything
EC$100,000
Annual income, earned outside Grenada
and it has to be income that continues
$1,500
Application fee for one person
$2,000 with up to three dependents, non-refundable
10 business days
The embassy's published processing window
counted from the day the envelope arrives
90 days
What an American gets on arrival, no visa at all
the permit is for the nine months after that
The money
The income test is about next year, not last year
Convert that at the rate fixed since the 1970s, EC$2.70 to the dollar, and it lands at the low end for the region. Antigua asks $50,000 for the same kind of permit.
Here's the catch that almost nobody writes down. The Act doesn't only ask you to prove you earned that much. It asks for proof that the income is intended to continue through the period the permit covers. A strong year that's already closed is weaker evidence than a signed contract running into next year.
In practice applicants send pay stubs, bank statements and a letter from an employer or a client list, in English. Nobody publishes whether the figure is per person or per household, so if two of you want to be principal applicants, ask the embassy first.
Digital Nomad Visa
Allows remote workers to live and work in Grenada while employed by companies outside the country. Designed for digital nomads seeking a Caribbean base with a lower cost of living.
- Government cost
- $1,500
- Processing time
- ~14 days
- Timeline
- 1 year, renewable
- Difficulty
- Moderate
Key requirements
- Valid passport
- Proof of remote employment or self-employment
- Annual income of at least $60,000
- Health insurance
- Clean criminal record
About that data card
That income line, $60,000 a year, is the one figure above you should ignore. Grenada legislated EC$100,000. At the pegged rate, that's roughly US$37,000, so our own card sets the bar about $23,000 too high. It's flagged for the data team. Better news on the clock: the 14 days shown is the calendar version of the ten business days the embassy publishes, so the card and embassy are describing the same wait. The $1,500 is right nonrefundable.
Filing it
What actually goes in the envelope
There's no portal. You print the form, complete it by hand in black or blue ink, and mail the paper to a Grenada embassy with a money order or certified check made out to the Embassy of Grenada. Want the visa posted back instead of collected? That's a second money order, $20 inside the United States and $60 internationally.
Two things make this harder than it sounds. The Washington embassy's form library carries no remote-work application, only the general Grenada visa form; call the embassy before you fill one in. The fee also travels with the envelope, so $1,500 leaves your account before anyone has read your file. The embassy asks for six weeks of runway. Take it.
- The printed form, filled in by hand
- The fee itself, by money order or certified check
- A second money order if you want the visa mailed back
- Every document in English
- English proficiency
- 100/100
- Currency
- Eastern Caribbean Dollar (XCD)
- Capital
- St. George's
- Population
- 125,000
Day to day
Two carriers, and everything else you plan around
Bandwidth, honestly
Two companies sell internet here, Flow and Digicel, and that's the entire market. Digicel advertises fiber up to 200 Mbps. Flow is laying fiber in stages and fell back on fixed wireless to reconnect Carriacou after Hurricane Beryl. There's no commercial 5G. On mobile, 4G reaches the populated island at roughly 20 to 60 Mbps. Ask a landlord which carrier serves the house before you sign.
You will need a car
Driving is on the left and the roads are narrow and steep. The State Department recommends picking up a local temporary license because you can be fined for not holding one in an accident, regardless of fault. Minibuses run. Uber does not.
June to November
That is Atlantic hurricane season, and Grenada's reputation for sitting below the belt failed in July 2024 when Beryl damaged or destroyed almost every building on Carriacou. A power plan, real insurance and a lease you can walk away from matter more here than a good desk.
The parts the form leaves out
No nomad scene
Coworking here amounts to a couple of listings in St. George's. It is not a scene.
Licensed lodging expected
Parliament framed this around hotels, apartments, guesthouses and villas, not an informal sublet.
Private school only
Children on this permit cannot enroll in Grenada's public schools for as long as you hold it.
Hospitals want payment up front
Payment is often due before treatment, and cards are not always taken.
Level 2 since January 2026
The State Department added a crime indicator, citing robbery and assault against Americans.
The vaccine line is stale
Guides still list a COVID-19 requirement. The State Department says no vaccinations are needed to enter.
The U.S. part
Grenada has an income tax, and your money isn't in it
The territorial system is what spares you: Grenada reaches income with a Grenadian source, and yours has none. There's no local bill or favor written into the Act either.
The residency test still deserves a look, because it has three doors rather than one. The familiar one is 183 days inside a calendar year. The slower two are 122 days a year for three years running, or a four-year average of 91. A second permit year can walk you through one without you noticing.
On the American side nothing softens. The 1040 keeps coming, and FBAR and FATCA come with it. The foreign earned income exclusion covers earned income only, up to $132,900 a person for 2026, and only if you spend 330 days outside the United States. It does all the work here, because a tax you never paid cannot be credited.
Before you buy the money order
ExpatInsure
Global Health Insurance
ExpatInsure brokers international health coverage. Grenada wants proof of a policy spanning the whole permit before it decides anything, so ask what the certificate has to say to satisfy an embassy, not only what the plan pays.
Flamingo Compliance | Tax Residency and Visa Tracker Platform
Tax Residency and Visa Tracker Platform
Flamingo Compliance is a day-tracking platform. Two rulebooks watch this permit at once, one Grenadian and one American, and neither of them cares that you were being careful. Worth automating before the second year.
Moneycorp
Currency Exchange
Moneycorp moves money between currencies. The fee leaves as a U.S. money order, then rent and groceries land in Eastern Caribbean dollars. Worth pricing the route before you open a local account.
Questions this permit raises
Does time on this permit lead to a Grenadian passport?
Nothing published says it does. The quick route to that passport is the investment program, starting at a $235,000 donation, and the ordinary route asks for years of legal residence this permit is not documented as providing. Treat it as a place to live, not a clock.
What happens when the second year runs out?
You leave, or you change lanes. The alternatives are a work permit, which a Grenadian employer has to start for you, a student visa, or citizenship by investment. None continues the nomad permit, so start that conversation months before this one expires.
Is the internet in Grenada good enough to work on?
For video calls, yes, as long as you check which of the two carriers reaches the address before you sign a lease. Fiber is real where it has been laid and 4G covers the rest. Our own data rates reliability here as moderate, and a storm can take the grid out for days.
Americans get 90 days free. Why pay $1,500?
Because the stamp runs out and the permit does not. Grenada has published nothing about working remotely during a visitor stay, so the Act is the only version of this with the government's name on it. If you want a season rather than a year, skip it.
Do I still file U.S. taxes on a Grenada nomad visa?
Yes. Moving abroad does not end a U.S. filing obligation, and Grenada collects nothing that could offset one. What decides your American bill is a day count, not which visa you hold, so start tracking on the day you land.
Is there really no online application for Grenada's nomad visa?
No. Everything moves on paper and through the mail. The only step that happens on a screen is the arrival declaration at edcard.gov.gd, filed within 72 hours of landing, long after the decision.
Should Grenada's Level 2 travel advisory change my plans?
It should shape how you set up rather than whether you go. Level 2 is the rating Germany and France carry too. For a remote worker that means care after dark, the local license, Grenada Taxi Association drivers at night, and the comfort that the U.S. embassy sits on this island rather than a neighboring one.
Grenada, or somewhere with a nomad scene?
Answer a few questions about how you earn and what you need nearby, and see which countries fit you before you commit to one.
Why not you?