Digital Nomad Visa

Chile Digital Nomad Visa 2026

Chile is the caution flag of this guide — the country most often listed as having a digital nomad visa, and the one where the evidence is thinnest. Dozens of nomad guides describe a Chilean program launched in 2023: twelve months, renewable once, for remote workers with foreign employers, with income figures quoted anywhere from US$1,500 to US$2,500 a month. Yet Chile's own immigration service publishes no such procedure, and careful country trackers now list Chile among the places with no working nomad visa — pointing instead to the Temporary Resident Visa for independent workers as the real route. We include Chile here because the claim is so widespread it deserves a straight answer rather than silence: as of our verification date, we could not confirm a functioning dedicated digital nomad visa. What is real is Chile's appeal — Santiago's infrastructure, Valparaíso's creative scene, the Atacama and Patagonia at the extremes, and a time zone aligned with the US East Coast. If Chile is your target, plan around the independent-worker temporary residence and treat any "digital nomad visa" checklist as unverified until the immigration service itself publishes it.