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Croatia, at your own pace.
Croatia's route for remote workers is a temporary stay permit issued by the Ministry of the Interior, not a visa in the strict legal sense.
When rules change mid-way, the date your application is filed is what often decides which rules apply to you. Where are you right now?
Pick by how you live
1 route, grouped by what Croatia's system asks of you day to day — not by which visa is most talked about. Every figure below is what Immimaps has verified against Croatia's official programme rules.
Your income comes from employers or clients outside the country. You don't want a local employer, and you don't need one.
Most of these sums are shown, not spent.
On most remote-work and retirement routes, the figure is proof of means — it sits in your own account until it's checked, and nothing is transferred. Routes where money genuinely moves are marked below.
route asks you to show a balance or income — once it's checked, it stays yours.
routes place capital that is exposed until the hold period or conditions are met.
What keeping the visa actually asks of you
Counted from each route's own rules. Some routes lead to permanent residence or citizenship and some don't; the route cards below say which.
Pick a route, see the real commitment
Every official figure below is what Immimaps has verified for that route against Croatia's official programme rules — not a marketing minimum. Service fees are what independent firms publish for the route, shown only once five or more are on file.
A temporary stay permit for remote employees and freelancers who earn from outside Croatia, suited to a defined period of living there rather than a path to permanent settlement.
What each route costs, stage by stage
Added up from the official figures on file for each route — split into money spent for good, money locked and returned later, and money shown but never transferred. Not a modelled estimate.
Digital Nomad Visa▾
At application
- Spent for goodOfficial fees: €87.59 – €189.88, paid to the government for the initial application.
- Shown, never leaves you€3,622.50 shown as proof of means every month — nothing is transferred.
3 ways to qualify — shown: the cheapest. Alternatives: €3,622.50 (shown) / €43,470 / €65,205.
The order Digital Nomad Visa follows
No confirmed rule change has been flagged for Croatia since it was last checked against the official mup.gov.hr portal on 2026-10-01. Immimaps keeps watching official immigration sources and will list dated changes here as soon as one is confirmed.
Check the mup.gov.hr portal directly →The cost calculator separates money spent for good from money that's only shown or locked up.
Open the cost calculatorUpload it and Immimaps checks it against what Croatia's official programme actually requires, and reads the contract clause by clause. Free, no account.
Check my documentEvery official figure on this page is checked against Croatia's official immigration sources. Service fees are what independent firms publish for a route — not an official figure, and never any one firm's price. Immimaps does not publish success rates, approval odds or any probability score — here or anywhere else.
Don’t take a life-changing move on someone else’s word.
Immimaps is not an agency and takes no placement fees. We show the real figures on every route, show the working, and tell you what it actually costs.
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