10 countries · 21 long-stay visas
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How a figure gets published →The deepest menu of long-stay options in the region: a five-year remote-work visa, a ten-year investment track, and a retirement route with the strictest insurance rule in Southeast Asia.
The lowest income bar in the region for tech workers, at USD 24,000 a year, paired with an insurance rule that rejects most global nomad policies on a technicality.
A formal remote-work permit for Bali with a high income bar (USD 60,000) and the region's most valuable tax position: four years of exempt foreign income.
No digital nomad visa exists, despite what most guides claim. What does exist is a 90-day multiple-entry e-visa costing USD 25 that nearly every remote worker in Vietnam actually uses.
The only country in the region where a retirement visa is now open at age 40, following the September 2025 restructure of the SRRV programme.
The least bureaucratic long-stay route in the region: an ordinary business visa converts to an indefinitely renewable extension with no income test, no deposit and no insurance requirement.
The Employment Gold Card bundles a work permit, residence visa and re-entry permit into one open-market document, with a tax concession for qualifying foreign professionals.
A six-month digital nomad route exists but is narrower than most coverage suggests: it is limited by nationality, carries a high income bar, and cannot be renewed or extended.
The F-1-D workation visa ties its income threshold to national income statistics rather than a fixed figure, which means the bar moves and most published numbers are already out of date.
The highest bar in the region by a wide margin, and the only country here where the binding constraint is a points framework rather than a single salary figure.
You can apply for the DTV while you're already in Thailand on a tourist stamp.
The Thai e-Visa system now flags IP and GPS location, and 2026 applicants increasingly face a Location Verification step requiring a utility bill or driver's licence matching the country of the embassy they applied to. Applying from inside Thailand is a rejection.
The DTV requires no documents beyond a bank statement.
Effective 31 August 2026, all DTV applicants must submit a certificate of criminal record clearance issued by the relevant authority in their home country, plus proof of permanent residence. This is a recent addition and most guides written before mid-2026 omit it.
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Effective 31 August 2026, all DTV applicants must submit a certificate of criminal record clearance issued by the relevant authority in their home country, plus proof of permanent residence.
Japan raised consular visa fees for the first time since 1978.
That figure is two GNI cycles out of date and is not a single number any more.