# Germany's digital nomad visa: no dedicated visa > Germany has no dedicated digital nomad visa. What that means for remote workers, the closest route that does exist, and the official source — checked 2026-08-18. Source: https://doastretch.com/nomad-visa/germany/ Germany · digital nomad visa · 2026 Germany has no dedicated digital nomad visa. Here is what that means in practice, what route remote workers actually use, and how the days are counted. Next step **How we know** Every figure here is as bamf.de publishes it, checked 18 August 2026. Where a number is our own arithmetic rather than a printed figure, the row says so. Sources are listed further down the page. ## What to know before you apply Germany has NO digital nomad visa. BAMF's list of work-related residence titles for third-country nationals covers skilled workers with vocational training, skilled workers with academic education, skilled workers without training, scientists, ICT transfers, self-employment/freelancing, and au pair/internship/voluntary service — there is no remote-work or digital nomad category anywhere on it. The nearest route is the § 21 AufenthG residence permit for self-employment or freelance work, which is a permit to run a business or practise a liberal profession IN Germany with an economic-interest/regional-need test; it is not designed for, and does not describe, remote work performed for clients or an employer abroad. No official page fetched states an income threshold, a fee, or a processing time for this permit (both are set by the individual local Ausländerbehörde and the mission handling the national visa), so those fields are omitted rather than guessed. make-it-in-germany.com is behind Radware bot protection and could not be fetched; BAMF and gesetze-im-internet.de were used instead, both official. ## What it means for your tax days A visa is permission to stay; tax residency follows the days you actually spend. Check Germany's tax authority for the day test that applies to you — and count the days either way. ## Sources - [bamf.de](https://www.bamf.de/EN/Themen/MigrationAufenthalt/ZuwandererDrittstaaten/Arbeit/SelbstaendigeTaetigkeit/selbstaendigetaetigkeit-node.html) — official source, checked 2026-08-18 - [gesetze-im-internet.de](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/aufenthg_2004/__21.html) (official), retrieved 2026-08-18 - [bamf.de](https://www.bamf.de/EN/Themen/MigrationAufenthalt/ZuwandererDrittstaaten/Arbeit/arbeit-node.html) (official), retrieved 2026-08-18 ## Questions people ask about Germany **Does Germany have a digital nomad visa?** No. Germany has no dedicated digital nomad visa. Germany has NO digital nomad visa. BAMF's list of work-related residence titles for third-country nationals covers skilled workers with vocational training, skilled workers with academic education, skilled workers without training, scientists, ICT transfers, self-employment/freelancing, and au pair/internship/voluntary service — there is no remote-work or digital nomad category anywhere on it. The nearest route is the § 21 AufenthG residence permit for self-employment or freelance work, which is a permit to run a business or practise a liberal profession IN Germany with an economic-interest/regional-need test; it is not designed for, and does not describe, remote work performed for clients or an employer abroad. No official page fetched states an income threshold, a fee, or a processing time for this permit (both are set by the individual local Ausländerbehörde and the mission handling the national visa), so those fields are omitted rather than guessed. make-it-in-germany.com is behind Radware bot protection and could not be fetched; BAMF and gesetze-im-internet.de were used instead, both official. **Does a digital nomad visa in Germany make you tax resident?** A visa and tax residency are different things: the visa lets you stay, the tax rules follow the days you actually spend. Check Germany's tax authority for the day test that applies to you. **How does Stretch help with the Germany stay?** Log the day you land and Stretch counts the days against the permission you are on, shows the date you must be out, and reminds you at 14, 7, 3 and 1 days. It also tallies the days that count towards tax residency, so the 183-day question answers itself. The counting and the alerts are free, forever. 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Visa and tax rules change and are applied by the authority, not by an app — every figure here shows its source and the date we checked it. Checked 2026-08-18; confirm on the official page before you apply or file.