Digital Nomad visa

Hello, I was studying this subject a lot, so I'll try to provide you information based on all the sourses I got. But for more detailed and up-to-date info we must wait for Mr. Angelo, he is a local expert.

1. Yes, she can. She basically comes in the same application, her passport won't matter. Btw, she can stay without a visa 60 days, while you only 30. It's a special agreement between CV and Russia
2. If your son is minor I don't think he has to provide that. But if your local police can issue that document it's better to take it rather than not.
3. Different sources gives different info. Normally all you have to get is a huge stamp upon arrival in your passport saying you may stay 180 days. On the practice I read that you still need to go to local immigration office.
4. All islands have immigration offices (police in that case). Different rules may apply.
5. You only need to submit documents from the list, it's not much. You can arrange it before if you'll be able to rent an apartment online which I wouldn't recommend before you see it.
6. Normally the process if finished even before you enter CV. But we can see that's not always the case.

Mr. Angelo on this forum mentioned many times that this Nomad visa is more marketing than the real product. In fact it's just a normal tourist visa and you might consider to enter CV as a tourist and then apply. But as far as I know, they only give it for 90 days, so you'll need to do it twice in order to stay 180 days.

P.S. I asked my Russian friend now and she said that there is a telegram and YouTube channel of the lady who recently moved to CV and making videos and posts about immigration experience (it's not advertisement and she does not do it for money, it's a blog). Your wife may have a look or even ask the lady directly, you can find her channel in Telegram or YouTube by looking for Лягушка-путешественница

Good luck!

Thanks for the great info Mia! Do you happen to know what other documents are on the list?

@EddyV

From their website:

Passport size photo of the candidate(s)

Passport bio page of the candidate(s)

Proof of income and means of subsistence (account statement of the last 6 months or copy of last 3 monthly salary receipts)

Individual health and travel insurance or family package

Copy of booking accommodation

Hi all,
We’re planning to arrive in CV at the end of July and would like to stay until early April. We originally considered leaving every 90 days to Senegal, but seems like quite a hassle and a lot of money considering there will be 3 of us (my wife, son and me). We also don’t like the idea of deliberately overstaying our visas.

Instead, we’re going to try to go for the “Digital Nomad visa”, which I understand is just a marketing term for 6-month temporary residency permit. I’ve ordered my police certificate, printed off bank statements and will soon fill in the online form.

If you don’t mind, I have a few questions:


My son and I are UK citizens but my wife is a Russian citizen. Can she get the same 6-month visa as a family member of me, the digital nomad?
Do only I have to provide the police certificate, or do my wife and 2-year old son need to as well?
Will we get a 6-month visa at the airport or will we need to go to the immigration office for this?
If we need to go to the office, is it still recommended to use the one in Praia rather than in Sal? We will be living in Sal, so that one would be much more convenient.
What local documents do we need to submit at the office? Can we prepare any of them in advance? If applying in Praia, we’ll need to minimize the time we spend there.
We’ll need to book flights from Sal to Praia and rent an apartment there. Approximately how much time should the whole process take?


Many thanks in advance for any info, help and advice!
-@EddyV

Hi Eddy,

All of your questions are completely addressed on the CV Remote Work website. Just follow the instructions. You apply ONLINE providing ONLY the information and documents requested! You will be informed via email when your visa has been authorized. You will receive your visa upon arriving at the airport.

Your biggest challenge is that you haven't given yourself enough time to get through the process! Nothing gets done quickly in CV. You've given yourself less than a month to get this done.

The last couple I helped with this applied 2 months before arriving. When they got here the visas won't ready. They decided to leave CV to go to the Canary Islands (for remote work) after spending 3 months in CV. Ironically, they got their CV remote working visa approval letter on the day they left!

Maybe you will be lucky enough to get your visas approved in less than a month. It's a possibility since they did make some changes to the original process because most of it made no sense or was impractical. The operational aspects are much improved, or so I've been told by the government minister responsible for the program.

I've answered your questions any way, just to clear up some misconceptions that may be holdovers from the original version of the program:

1. Yes! It doesn't matter what country your wife is from, as long as you are legally married (proven by your marriage certificate);

2. Foreign police certificates are NOT needed for a 6-month temporary residency visa;

3. Yes. This is one of the operational changes that they made. You will receive your visa at the airport (assuming they don't take months to issue it);

4. You do NOT need to go to Praia. Sal has NOTHING to do with the remote work visa. You do not apply for anything in Sal. Your visa application is submitted online and goes directly to the DEF (immigration) head office in Praia, which is where it is handled and approved. Just to clarify for other members, the rogue immigration office in Sal has ZERO problems issuing 6-month TEMPORARY residency visas. They love issuing these. It is the permanent residency visas that they hate issuing to foreigners who wish to reside permanently in Sal;

5. You do not need to submit any local documents. You are only required to submit the documents that are requested online;

6. This question is moot. You do not need to come to Praia.

Best regards,

Angelo

Hi Angelo, many thanks for your detailed reply. It is greatly appreciated. Everything is much clearer now and you have certainly cleared up some things I had misunderstood.

I have three more questions though, if you don’t mind:

if I apply today but the 6-month digital nomad residency is not approved by the time we arrive, can I enter on a normal tourist visa and get the 6 month residency later at the immigration office in Sal?

if so, I’d it just the same documents as are required or is there anything extra?

Can the 6 month digital nomad residency easily be extended to 12 months at the Sal immigration office?

Many thanks again!

Hi Angelo, many thanks for your detailed reply. It is greatly appreciated. Everything is much clearer now and you have certainly cleared up some things I had misunderstood.
I have three more questions though, if you don’t mind:

if I apply today but the 6-month digital nomad residency is not approved by the time we arrive, can I enter on a normal tourist visa and get the 6 month residency later at the immigration office in Sal?
if so, I’d it just the same documents as are required or is there anything extra?
Can the 6 month digital nomad residency easily be extended to 12 months at the Sal immigration office?

Many thanks again!
-@EddyV

Hi Eddy,

Glad to hear this was helpful. I've answered your remaining questions below:

If I apply today but the 6-month digital nomad residency is not approved by the time we arrive, can I enter on a normal tourist visa and get the 6 month residency later at the immigration office in Sal?

Yes, if the approval for the DN visa has not yet come through by the time you arrive, you will enter CV on a normal 30-day tourism visa, then once you receive the email notification of your DM visa approvals, you will go in to the immigration office at the Sal airport to have them stamped/inserted into your passports.

Even if it your 30-day tourist visas have expired, you should not worry about that. Infact, You can literaly stay in Sal for the entire 6-months, do your DN work and then leave without paying a single fine. As long as you have your receipts indicating that you did apply AND PAY for the DN visa, you're free to leave without penalty. It's not your problem if it takes incompetent bureaucrats more than 30-days to complete the approval process!

if so, I'd it just the same documents as are required or is there anything extra?

No additional documents are required of you if it took them longer to process your application than your arrival date. And as I said in an earlier post, the xenophobic  Sal immigration department has NOTHING to do with the DN program which is operated by the big bureaucratic wigs in Praia and the approvals come directly from Praia/ You are simply picking up the visa that were authorized directly by DEF in Praia.

Can the 6 month digital nomad residency easily be extended to 12 months at the Sal immigration office?

I'm not sure how the 6-month DN visa is renewed, that is to say, if you have to make a new application online (which to me is the logical thing...but they've never reputation for being logical or smart in the government offices). I will find out how it is done and confirm.

Send me a private message so we can exchange contact information in case you need help when you get here.

Cheers,

Angelo