Five digital nomad visas that have closed
isvisarequired.com · 2026-09-13
Iceland's remote-work visa still turns up on shortlists with €7,000 a month attached to it. The visa was repealed in May.
When we checked all 37 programmes in our digital nomad visa directory against each government's own page, five had closed: Iceland, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Antigua & Barbuda and Anguilla. Every one is still listed as available somewhere, and until recently that included our directory, with income thresholds and fees beside them. That's worse than not listing them at all, because a closed programme with a number next to it looks researched.
Iceland repealed its visa in May 2026
Iceland's long-term visa for remote workers was repealed on 13 May 2026, when the new Visa Act (No. 37/2026) came into force. The legal provision it rested on was struck out.
The replacement isn't like-for-like. Stays longer than 90 days now go through a short-term residence permit, and the requirements for that permit haven't been published, so there's no income threshold, fee or maximum stay to plan around. Anyone quoting you €7,000 a month is quoting a rule that's gone, and nobody can currently tell you what replaced it.
The official source is the Directorate of Immigration. It has published nothing on the replacement yet. The old utl.is address forwards there and has no remote-work page.
Bermuda closed its certificate in February 2025
The Work From Bermuda Certificate concluded on 28 February 2025. Its application page carries the closure notice, which is more than most closed programmes manage.
The route that followed, Permission to Reside on an Annual Basis, is a different thing with different conditions. Don't read it as the old certificate renamed.
The Cayman Islands let the programme vanish
The Cayman Islands did not announce anything. The Global Citizen Concierge Programme simply stopped being there. Its website, eworkcayman.com, isn't showing an error page — the domain itself is gone. The programme appears in no current WORC immigration form and no 2026 fee schedule, and long stays now go through the ordinary immigration framework.
It's also the one you're most likely to still see listed at US$100,000 a year, since there's no closure notice anywhere for other sites to pick up.
Antigua & Barbuda said so plainly
Antigua & Barbuda's Nomad Digital Residence has ended, and unusually, the government's own portal says so outright.
English Harbour from Shirley Heights. Antigua & Barbuda's Nomad Digital Residence has ended. Photo: Dr. Thomas Liptak / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Anguilla just went quiet
Work from Anguilla is murkier. We found no live official page for it anywhere on gov.ai, and no notice announcing a closure either. We mark it ended rather than dormant because it has disappeared from the government's own site so completely, but that's a conclusion drawn from absence, and the directory page says so.
Why closed visas stay listed
Launches get press releases. Closures get a quietly deleted page. Comparison sites, ours included, are built to pick up announcements, so a programme that stops existing without saying so can sit in a directory for years.
Worse, a dead official link isn't treated as a warning. Most listings check that a URL exists, not that it still describes the programme. Cayman's link hadn't merely broken. Its domain had been given up, and the listing survived anyway.
What we do differently now
Our directory now records a status and a check date for every programme, and closed ones move to their own section rather than being deleted, so a search for "Iceland digital nomad visa" lands you on the repeal instead of a stale income figure. Before you plan around an income figure anywhere, open the government page it came from. That's the check we run before a number goes back into the directory.
If one of these five was your plan, read what else we found wrong when checking every digital nomad visa — the closures weren't the only problem.