Digital nomad
Residency route facts
Identity
| Official name (local) | Nomad digital — viza de lungă şedere pentru alte scopuri (simbol D/AS) as of 2026-08-25[3][6] Article 2 lit. n^4), introduced by Legea nr. 22 din 14 ianuarie 2022 and read directly in the consolidated text, names and defines 'nomad digital'. The visa side is the D/AS other-purposes visa, which the term shares with eight other categories. |
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| Official name (English) | Digital nomad as of 2026-08-25[3][6] Translation of the statutory term, which is itself a borrowing. |
| Legal basis | Ordonanţa de urgenţă a Guvernului nr. 194/2002, republicată, cu modificările şi completările ulterioare, art. 2 lit. n^4), astfel cum a fost introdusă prin Legea nr. 22 din 14 ianuarie 2022, publicată în Monitorul Oficial nr. 45 din 14 ianuarie 2022 as of 2026-08-25[3][6] Article 2 lit. n^4) was read directly, with its own amendment note giving the introducing instrument and its gazette reference. The articles carrying the conditions and the permit terms are behind the retrieval ceiling and rest on IGI's own statement of them. |
| Instrument type | residence permit as of 2026-08-25[3] A D/AS long-stay visa for 90 days, then a residence permit – IGI states in terms that the FIRST extension of the residence right for digital nomads is granted for a period of 6 months, and sets out a separate document list for subsequent extensions. |
Who can apply
| Nationals not served by this route | EU, EEA as of 2026-08-25[2][6] |
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| Minimum age | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. No age condition is stated. |
| Criminal-record condition | Yes as of 2026-08-25[3] A criminal record certificate or another document of the same legal value, apostilled or super-legalised as the case may be and translated into Romanian in authenticated form, issued by the authorities of the country of origin AND, where applicable, of the state in which the foreigner is legally resident and earns the income – a two-country requirement this route states and the others do not. |
Permit terms
| Initial duration | 6 months as of 2026-08-25[3] |
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| Renewable | Yes as of 2026-08-25[3] IGI sets out a separate and slightly heavier document list for subsequent extensions. |
| Renewal duration | Not established from a qualifying source |
| Work rights | none as of 2026-08-25[2][3][6] |
Permanent residence and citizenship
| Counts toward permanent residence | Not established from a qualifying source Not established. IGI publishes the categories to which the long-term residence right is NOT granted as a closed list: holders of temporary residence for studies; applicants for and beneficiaries of temporary protection; applicants for and beneficiaries of protection other than international protection; applicants for international protection; holders of a residence right conferred by a short-stay, diplomatic or service visa; and holders of a right obtained to work as a seasonal worker or an au-pair worker. This route is not in that list. But absence from a list of exclusions is not the same as a positive statement that time on this route counts, and IGI names only work, commercial activities and family reunification as examples of qualifying purposes. Digital nomads are neither named among the qualifying purposes nor among the excluded categories. |
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Requirements
| Minimum income | 3 × average gross earning per month as of 2026-08-25[2][3] |
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| Qualifying income basis | employment abroad, own company abroad as of 2026-08-25[3][6] Two limbs and no third. Either an employment contract with a company registered outside Romania, proved in the original with an authenticated Romanian translation; or ownership of a company registered outside Romania which the applicant administers remotely. Freelance work for foreign clients without either an employment contract or an owned company is not among them. |
| Local work allowed | No as of 2026-08-25[2][3][6] |
| Minimum remote-working history | 3 years as of 2026-08-25[3] THIS APPLIES TO ONE LIMB ONLY AND THE FIELD CANNOT SAY SO. Where the applicant relies on owning a company rather than on an employment contract, that company must have been registered outside Romania FOR AT LEAST THREE YEARS before the date of the visa application. Where the applicant relies on an employment contract, no minimum tenure is stated at all. A reader comparing Romania against another country would take this as a three-year bar on the whole route, which is wrong for the employed limb. |
| Route carries its own tax regime | Not established from a qualifying source |
Process
| Where to apply from | from abroad only as of 2026-08-25[2][3] The other-purposes long-stay visa, symbol D/AS, is granted on request by the Romanian diplomatic missions and consular posts in the country where the applicant has their residence or domicile, for 90 days with one or more journeys. Internally the National Visa Centre approves it only after IGI's aviz, which is issued within at most 30 days of the request, extendable by 15 days. |
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| Statutory processing time | up to 30 days as of 2026-08-25[3] The other-purposes long-stay visa, symbol D/AS, is granted on request by the Romanian diplomatic missions and consular posts in the country where the applicant has their residence or domicile, for 90 days with one or more journeys. Internally the National Visa Centre approves it only after IGI's aviz, which is issued within at most 30 days of the request, extendable by 15 days. The application to grant or extend the residence right is decided within 30 days of submission, extendable by at most 15 days where further checks are needed. Where the information or documents supplied are inadequate, IGI sets a reasonable deadline of no more than 30 days for the applicant to supply more and the 30-day clock is suspended until they arrive; if they do not, the application may be rejected. |
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Physical presence
| none stated | to keep the permit as of 2026-08-25[3] |
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Family inclusion
| Family members may be included | Not established from a qualifying source |
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Your next step
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Verification
| Sources cited | 6 |
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| of which official (tier 1) | 6 |
| Oldest as-of date | 2026-08-25 |
| Newest as-of date | 2026-08-25 |
| Reviewed on | 2026-08-26 |
| Schema version | 1.1 |
Sources
- [1] Perceperea taxei de viza
Ministerul Afacerilor Externe — Centrul National de Vize · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [2] Tipuri de vize şi scopurile deplasării
Ministerul Afacerilor Externe – Centrul Naţional de Vize (eViza) · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [3] Alte scopuri — administrator, sef de filiala sau reprezentanta, formare profesionala neremunerata, voluntariat, lucrator au-pair, tratament medical, nomazi digitali
Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrari · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [4] Permisul unic / Cartea albastra a UE — obtinerea si prelungirea dreptului de sedere in scop de munca si de detasare
Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrari · official portal · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [5] Taxele pe care trebuie sa le achitati pentru obtinerea permisului de sedere
Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrari · fee schedule · Tier 1 · Accessed 2026-08-25 - [6] Ordonanţa de urgenţă a Guvernului nr. 194/2002 privind regimul străinilor în România, republicată – formă consolidată valabilă la 30 aprilie 2026 (publicată de IGI)
Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrări / Guvernul României · statute · Tier 1 · Published 2008-06-05 · Accessed 2026-08-25