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Digital nomad visas an Indian passport can actually use

Every verified route in this database was re-checked against official sources for one question: can a India (Indian passport) holder apply at all, and what does entering the country take before the visa question even starts? Aggregator sites usually skip both.

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Available16

No nationality bar found in the official rules for India (Indian passport) applicants.

Not available3

Excluded by an official eligibility list, a separate legal regime, or a nationality gate.

Unresolved1

Official texts leave the answer conditional or the application path unconfirmed.

Full table

All 20 routes for an Indian passport

“Entry baseline” is how you get into the country in the first place — it is separate from digital-nomad-visa eligibility, and holding an entry route does not by itself qualify you for the visa.

Country	Can you apply?	Confidence	Entry baseline (Indian passport)	Key friction / route note
Portugal	Yes	Official, explicit	India has no Schengen exemption (EU Regulation 2018/1806 Annex I, visa required); the standard 90/180-day rule applies. Portugal's official visa portal lists India by name among Schengen-visa-required nationalities.	Consular jurisdiction is split: the New Delhi embassy covers all of India except Goa, Maharashtra, Daman & Diu, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli, which fall under the Consulate General in Goa. VFS Global is the sole application channel. The PCC route is settled — Regional Passport Office certificate plus MEA Apostille (India has been a Hague member since 2005), explicitly contrasted in the embassy checklist against non-Hague neighbors' double legalization. Indian applicants must submit income tax returns (ITRs) for the previous 3 years alongside bank statements; the income threshold is 4x the Portuguese minimum monthly wage (the current exact euro figure was not verified against the wage ordinance). Travel insurance must carry a QR code and come from a VFS-published list of approved Indian insurers.
Spain	Yes	Official, explicit	India has no Schengen exemption (EU Regulation 2018/1806 Annex I); the standard 90/180-day rule applies. The digital nomad visa itself is a national visa, not a Schengen short-stay visa.	Applications route through BLS International (not VFS): the New Delhi embassy covers north/east India plus Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka; the Mumbai consulate-general covers south/west India. The PCC requires RPO issuance, MEA Apostille, and a sworn Spanish translation — all stated officially, a cleaner authentication picture than the conflicting guidance found in the China audit. The income threshold is 200% of the Spanish national minimum wage (SMI) monthly, EUR-denominated with no INR figure published; the exact current euro amount was not verified against a primary source.
Italy	Yes	Official, explicit	India has no Schengen exemption; Italy's MFA list of visa-required countries names India explicitly. The standard 90/180-day rule applies.	Notable gap: as of 2026-07-11, none of the four Italian missions in India (New Delhi embassy; Mumbai, Bangalore, and Calcutta consulates-general) publishes a dedicated digital nomad visa page or India-specific checklist — unlike Italian missions in Dubai, Sydney, Toronto, New York, and London. Indian applicants must work from the generic decree criteria without jurisdiction-tailored guidance. Whether VFS Global (Italy's standard VAC operator in India) handles the DN category specifically is unverified. The financial threshold is EUR 28,000/year from the decree, with no INR adaptation published. PCC apostille specifics for the India route are unverified at official level, though India's MEA apostille chain is procedurally mature.
Greece	Yes	Official, inferred	India has no Schengen exemption (EU Regulation 2018/1806 Annex I); the standard 90/180-day rule applies. The DN visa is a national D visa applied for through the Embassy of Greece in New Delhi.	Single officially confirmed channel: Embassy of Greece New Delhi, with applications lodged via the GVCW visa application center in New Delhi (Greece does not use VFS in India; third-party claims of a Mumbai pathway are unverified). The Indian PCC must be MEA-apostilled and no older than 3 months at submission — no further consular legalization given India's 2005 Hague membership. Income threshold EUR 3,500/month net for the main applicant. Fee figures conflict across sources (EUR 75 plus EUR 150 per dependent vs EUR 1,000) and remain unverified.
Croatia	Yes	Official, inferred	India has no Schengen exemption; Croatia has been a full Schengen member since 2023, so short Indian entries count against the shared Schengen 90/180-day pool. Indian applicants must file the DN application through the Croatian mission rather than in-country.	Croatia has a resident embassy in New Delhi (also covering Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka), with visa logistics outsourced to VFS Global centers in six Indian cities — but VFS's official Croatia-India page does not explicitly list the digital nomad category, so whether DNV applications route through VFS or must go directly to the embassy is unverified. The financial threshold rose to EUR 3,622.50/month (or lump sums of EUR 43,470 for 12 months / EUR 65,205 for 18 months) effective around March 2026, EUR-only. The exact Croatian procedural text for Indian PCC apostille was not found at official level, though the standard RPO-plus-MEA-apostille route has been settled since India's 2005 Hague accession.
Estonia	Yes	Official, explicit	India has no Schengen exemption; the standard 90/180-day rule applies. The Estonian Embassy New Delhi confirms it accepts Schengen applications from Indian passport holders and residents of India.	Estonia has a resident embassy in New Delhi; DNV applications are lodged via VFS Global centers in nine Indian cities and forwarded to the embassy for decision. Notable India-specific document rule stated officially: for Indian citizens, only the personal ITR-V (Income Tax Return Verification form) or Acknowledgement is accepted for the last 2 assessment years — a substitution not present in the generic checklist. Income threshold EUR 4,500/month over the preceding 6 months; whether this is gross or net is inconsistent across official sources and unverified. The exact PCC/apostille clause for the India route was not found on an Estonian official page (documentation gap, not a legal barrier).
Malta	Yes	Official, explicit	India has no Schengen exemption; Malta's official FAQ explicitly lists India among the nationalities that need an entry visa. The Nomad Residence Permit application itself is submitted centrally online regardless of nationality.	The PCC (mandatory for 18+, original, under 6 months old) must be apostilled — the official checklist's apostille-exemption shortlist (Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK, Canada) does not include India, so the standard MEA Apostille applies (routine given India's 2005 Hague membership). The subsequent entry visa for visa-required nationals routes through Identity Malta's 13-city VFS Global network in India. Income threshold is EUR 42,000/year gross; no India-specific income-document guidance is published, and whether ITR/Form 16 are acceptable substitutes is unverified.
Thailand	Yes	Official, inferred	Indian ordinary-passport holders currently get 60-day visa-free entry for tourism/short business, confirmed live on the Royal Thai Embassy New Delhi's own visa page ("remains effective until further announcement"). This is a different mechanism from China's mutual 30-day exemption — it is Thailand's 2024 unilateral waiver covering ~93 countries. PENDING CHANGE: Thailand's Cabinet approved (May 2026) revoking the 60-day scheme for all 93 countries and shrinking visa-on-arrival eligibility from 31 to 4 countries; secondary press (not an official India-named source) reports India would move to a 15-day VOA tier. Not yet in force — the Royal Gazette publication that would trigger it had not occurred as of the last official check (Tourism Authority of Thailand newsroom).	500,000 THB (or equivalent) 3-month bank statement is mandatory for the DTV itself, per the official checklist; no apostille/PCC requirement appears in that checklist. DTV e-visa applications route through the central thaievisa.go.th MFA portal, not VFS Global (VFS handles other Thai visa categories for India). A commonly cited DTV fee of 25,000 INR could not be independently confirmed from an official source — treat as unverified.
Japan	No	Official, explicit	Indian nationals require a standard visa for any stay in Japan — no visa-free short-term entry exists. Since 2024-04-01 a Japan eVisa option is available in India alongside the traditional paper process.	Applications route through VFS Global-operated Japan Visa Application Centres, with jurisdiction split across the Embassy in New Delhi and Consulates-General in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, and Bengaluru. India joined the Hague Apostille Convention in 2005 and Japan has been a member since 1970, which in principle simplifies document legalization versus non-Hague countries — but this is moot for the digital nomad status itself since India is not eligible for it, and apostille procedure detail for general Japan visa applications could not be officially confirmed (MOFA pages blocked automated fetch).
Indonesia	Yes	Official, inferred	India is on Indonesia's visa-on-arrival/e-VOA eligible-country list (listed as entry #26 on a Directorate General of Immigration regional-office republication of the current VOA country circular, dated 2022-09-14) — the same e-VOA mechanism used by China, not a visa-free arrangement.	E33G's own financial-proof requirement is USD-denominated (USD 2,000 x 3-month bank statement, plus USD 60,000/year income proof) with no India-specific variant found. Application is fully online via evisa.imigrasi.go.id (e-VITAS to e-ITAS/KITAS); no India-specific VFS Global partnership for Indonesian visas was confirmed. Both India (since 2005) and Indonesia (since 2022-06-04) are Hague Apostille members, but no evidence was found that apostille is required for E33G's own supporting documents specifically.
Taiwan	No	Official, explicit	Indian passport holders need a standard visitor visa via TECC New Delhi (in-person sticker visa, no post/courier/email submission), or the ROC Travel Authorization Certificate (conditional on already holding a qualifying third-country visa/residency, grants 30-day stay), or a group eVisa (minimum 5 travelers via an accredited travel agency, 30-day single entry). No individual visa-free or visa-on-arrival option exists.	Taiwan is not a Hague Apostille Convention member (due to its diplomatic status), so India's 2005 Apostille accession does not simplify document authentication here — Indian documents for Taiwan use require full consular legalization (notarization, then State-level attestation, then Ministry of External Affairs attestation, then TECC New Delhi attestation), a longer chain than an apostille-recognizing destination would need.
Malaysia	Yes	Official, explicit	Indian passport holders get visa-free entry to Malaysia for up to 30 days (tourism/business/social/transit only, not work/study), confirmed verbatim on the Malaysian Immigration Department's own site: "India citizen: visa exempts until 31st December 2026." This waiver started 2023-12-01 and has since been extended to 2026-12-31. DE Rantau (work) still requires its own Professional Visit Pass application regardless of this tourist waiver.	Malaysia is not a Hague Apostille Convention member (confirmed via the official HCCH status table), even though India has been a member since 2005 — Indian documents generally need Ministry of External Affairs apostille/authentication plus separate Malaysian High Commission attestation, not a straightforward apostille. DE Rantau applications go through MDEC's own online portal (rai.malaysia.gov.my), not VFS Global. Published income thresholds are USD-denominated (USD 24,000/yr tech, USD 60,000/yr non-tech), not India-specific.
South Korea	Yes	Official, explicit	India is not covered by K-ETA (limited to roughly 112 visa-waiver nationalities) and requires a standard Korean visa for mainland entry; the Jeju-only 30-day visa-free arrangement is irrelevant to F-1-D. F-1-D is applied for as a distinct long-stay visa category at a mission, independent of K-ETA status.	Applications are processed through VFS Global / BLS International outsourced centers across several Indian cities rather than direct embassy walk-in for biometrics/documents; F-1-D-specific processing time (as opposed to standard short-stay visas, ~10 working days) was not separately confirmed. India (since 2005) and Korea (since 2007) are both Hague Apostille members, and the Mumbai F-1-D notice explicitly accepts "Apostille or Consular Legalization" for foreign documents — a lighter-weight path than full consular legalization.
United Arab Emirates	Yes	Official, explicit	Unlike China (which has had a mutual visa exemption with the UAE since 2025-04-11), India has no visa-free or mutual-exemption arrangement with the UAE. Indian ordinary-passport holders need a UAE visa to enter, via either a standard advance e-visa, or visa-on-arrival if holding a valid US visa, US Green Card, or a UK or EU/Schengen residence visa valid at least 6 months from arrival (14 days, extendable once for 14 more) — confirmed verbatim on the official GDRFA Dubai page. This was expanded 2025-02-13 to also cover Indians holding valid visas/residence permits/Green Cards from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, or Singapore. A 2026-07-01 press report claims UK residence visas were later dropped as a standalone qualifying credential for this VOA route — this is UNVERIFIED and was not reflected on the official GDRFA page as fetched during this check; re-verify before publishing if precision matters.	The UAE is not a Hague Apostille Convention member (confirmed via the official HCCH status table — this corrects an initial assumption that the UAE joined in 2022), so India's 2005 Apostille accession does not simplify document authentication here: employment/income documents for the Virtual Work visa still need full consular attestation (India MEA to UAE Embassy/Consulate in India to UAE MOFAIC). The standard USD 3,500/month income threshold applies with no India-specific markup found. The Virtual Work visa application itself is 100% online via GDRFA (Dubai) or ICP smart services (other emirates); VFS Global centers in India are only relevant for a standalone standard entry visa, not the Virtual Work visa application.
Mexico	Yes	Official, explicit	India is on Mexico's list of nationalities that require a Mexican visa. However, INM's own page enumerating visa-required nationalities lists a nationality-neutral alternative: a valid current visa for Canada, the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, or any Schengen state exempts the holder from needing a separate Mexican visa, for a 180-day stay applied automatically via FMM at the border — the same mechanism found for China, independently confirmed to extend to India rather than assumed.	Apostille applies fully: India acceded to the Hague Apostille Convention 2004-10-26 (in force 2005-07-14, via accession), and Mexico is not among the states that filed a formal objection to India's accession. Spanish translation of supporting documents is required under standard consular practice; no India-specific waiver was found. The financial-solvency threshold is denominated in UMA (Mexican units of account) with no INR-localized figure published, unlike Beijing's RMB-denominated thresholds for China. Consular jurisdiction: the Embassy of Mexico in New Delhi is the primary visa-issuing mission; Mexico also maintains honorary consulates in Mumbai (accepting visa appointments since 2024-04-15), Chennai, Kolkata, and Bengaluru, but the exact state-by-state jurisdictional split among these posts is unverified — not published on any official page found.
Costa Rica	Yes	Official, explicit	As a Grupo III national, India requires a Costa Rican consular visa by default. The November 2025 regulation update grants visa-free entry to holders of a multi-entry US or Canada visa/residence permit with a minimum remaining validity of just 1 calendar day (down from a prior 90-day threshold), with permitted stay equal to that visa's remaining validity. This exemption clause is written group-wide (covering Grupo III and IV nationals collectively, not a per-country list), so it extends to India without India needing to be separately named.	Apostille applies fully (India's 2004 accession is not objected to by Costa Rica). No India-specific clause equivalent to China's criminal-record-certificate rule for applicants 16+ was found — India sits in Grupo III with no special added conditions, a genuine asymmetry versus China rather than a research gap. Income thresholds (US$3,000/month individual) are USD-denominated globally with no INR-localized figure; the family-threshold amount appears inconsistently across secondary sources ($4,000 vs $5,000) and was not reconciled against the primary regulation text — treat as unverified pending a direct read of the implementing decree. Consular jurisdiction: the Embassy of Costa Rica in New Delhi (established 2010) is Costa Rica's only diplomatic mission in India and covers the whole country — no regional routing needed.
Colombia	Conditional	Official, inferred	With a valid Schengen or US visa (≥180 days remaining) or Schengen/US residence permit, short-stay visa-free entry applies under Literal C — confirmed both by the regulation text and independently by the Colombian Consulate in New Delhi's own public notice to Indian citizens. Without one, a standard Colombian consular tourist visa (Visa V Turismo, Resolución 5477 Art. 34) is required via the Consulate of Colombia in New Delhi. No passive-income alternative fits: Visa M Rentista requires non-labor income at least 10x the digital-nomad threshold and does not accommodate salaried or freelance remote income.	Apostille most likely applies (Colombia's own 2000-04-27 accession carries no recorded objection to India's 2004 accession in the HCCH status table), but this was not fully cross-checked against a bilateral notice naming Colombia specifically — flag for a final manual check. Spanish translation is required per Resolución 5477 Art. 21, with a narrow exception for bank certificates in OAS official languages (English qualifies). Consular jurisdiction sits with the Consulate of Colombia in New Delhi, which indicates it serves applicants nationwide; no separate Mumbai/Bengaluru/Chennai Colombian consular visa authority was found. This entry should not be published or acted on as a firm "yes" without either an explicit official statement on the Literal C question or direct confirmation via a SITAC pre-application or written consular inquiry.
Brazil	Yes	Official, explicit	India has no visa-free, e-visa, or visa-on-arrival arrangement with Brazil, and does not benefit from China's temporary reciprocal exemption (a China-specific, time-boxed measure). Brazil's official Quadro Geral de Regime de Vistos (updated 2026-01-15) lists India's ordinary visit-visa (VIVIS) code as "1" — visa required, no exemption footnote. Brazil's eVisa program is limited to US/Canada/Australia passport holders and does not cover India. Because India has no visa-free entry point at all, the "don't rely on visa-free entry plus in-country conversion" caution that applied to China's 30-day window is moot for India — applying for VITEM XIV at the mission with jurisdiction is the only path, not one option among several.	Apostille applies fully: India acceded 2004-10-26 (in force 2005-07-14), Brazil acceded 2015-12-02 (in force 2016-08-14) with no recorded objection to India's accession — the New Delhi embassy's own consular page states this directly, the India-specific analogue of the Shanghai page cited in the China audit. Sworn-translation (tradutor juramentado) is a nationality-agnostic general rule. Consular jurisdiction is split: the Embassy of Brazil in New Delhi covers all of India and Bhutan except Maharashtra, Goa, and Karnataka, which the Consulate-General of Brazil in Mumbai covers. No VFS Global or BLS International outsourcing was found for Brazilian visas in India — applications go through Brazil's own in-house e-consular booking system with in-person submission. Official fee figures could not be verified (fee page blocked by anti-scraping); third-party figures (~₹8,000–10,000) are indicative only and should not be published as authoritative.
Argentina	No	Official, explicit	Ordinary Indian passport holders require an Argentine consular visa for tourism. Exception: holders of a valid, current US visa (B1/B2, B2, J, O, P/P1/P2/P3, E, or H-1B) or a US Green Card may enter for tourism without an Argentine consular visa or AVE, per Resolución 353/2025 — up to 90 days, extendable once for an equal period, tourist category only, no change of migratory status permitted. Without a qualifying US visa or Green Card, a full consular tourist visa is required via the Embassy of Argentina in New Delhi.	Apostille: India acceded 2004-10-26 (in force 2005-07-14); Argentina ratified 1987-05-08 (in force 1988-02-18); no Argentina-specific objection to India's accession was found, but the complete list of objecting states was not fully resolved in this pass — treat as unverified pending a direct read of HCCH's detailed notification page rather than assumed clean. Translation: Ley 20.305 requires a registered "traductor público matriculado" for foreign-language documents, a generic nationality-agnostic rule. Consular jurisdiction: the Embassy of Argentina in New Delhi handles Indian visa services; no jurisdictional split with the Mumbai Consulate-General was found (Mumbai only republishes the Resolución 353/2025 notice).
Uruguay	Yes	Official, explicit	India is listed "Necesita Visa" for common passports on Uruguay's official visa regime table, carrying footnote (5) — prior DNM authorization is required before the consulate can issue the visa. Footnote (10) — the exemption letting holders of a valid US/Canada/UK/EU visa skip the Uruguayan consular visa — is textually scoped to "Portadores de pasaporte común de República Popular China" only; it does not name India or extend to any broader group India falls into, and there is no equivalent shortcut for India. Indian applicants must go through the standard process: DNM prior authorization, then a Uruguayan consulate visa stamp — a genuine asymmetry versus China's lowest-friction entry route in this audit.	Apostille applies: India acceded 2004-10-26 (in force 2005-07-14); Uruguay acceded 2012-02-09 (in force 2012-10-14) and is not among the five states that filed a formal objection to India's accession (Belgium, Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Spain — most since withdrawn, Germany's remains active but Uruguay isn't on the list). Translation: the same general apostille-plus-Spanish-translation rule applies to India as to all countries except Brazil, which is the sole carve-out on renewal documents. Uruguay maintains a direct mission — the Embassy of Uruguay in New Delhi (B-8/3 Vasant Vihar) — so no regional routing is needed. Whether the passport-only gub.uy online account registration is sufficient to complete the full digital-nomad application for an Indian passport specifically was not independently walked through this round; treat as unverified rather than confirmed.

The routes that are out

3 routes, 3 different kinds of “no”

Knowing why a route is closed matters: some closures have workarounds, some do not.

Japan: India does not appear in either official Immigration Services Agency (ISA) eligible-country chart for the digital nomad "Designated Activities" status — confirmed by direct text extraction of the official PDF, exact string search for "India" returned zero hits in both the 51-country Digital Nomad list (dependent list: 73 entries) and the broader Spouse/Child-of-Digital-Nomad list. The underlying gate is structural: eligibility requires (1) nationality of a country with a Japan visa-exemption arrangement and (2) an applicable tax treaty; India satisfies neither — it is not on Japan's roughly 74-country visa-exempt list (MOFA's own list page could not be fetched directly due to a bot block, but a 2018 MOFA press release title, "Visa Relaxation for Nationals of India," corroborates that India requires a visa in the first place).
Taiwan: India is not on BOCA's visa-exempt country list (confirmed directly against the official list, roughly 50 countries/regions across 90/30/14-day tiers — no "India" entry), and Taiwan's Digital Nomad Visitor Visa page states explicitly, "Only nationals from visa-exempt countries are eligible for the digital nomad visitor visa." No India-specific visa-free or visa-on-arrival pilot exists as of the last check: the current New Southbound Policy trial visa-free extension (through 2026-07-31) covers only Thailand, Brunei, and the Philippines — India is not included, despite 2024-era reports/proposals about a possible India visa-free pilot. The only India-relevant relaxed-entry mechanism is a 2016-origin "ROC Travel Authorization Certificate" (still active), but it requires the applicant to already hold a valid visa or residence permit from Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Schengen, the UK, or the US — it does not confer visa-exempt-country nationality and therefore does not satisfy the DNV's eligibility gate. India is structurally ineligible for the DNV, via the same "not on the visa-exempt list" mechanism found for China (Taiwan's China exclusion is a distinct, additional political mechanism that does not apply to India).
Argentina: Structurally ineligible, independently confirmed rather than assumed to mirror China. DNM's official visa regime table classifies India as "REQUIERE VISA" for ordinary/tourist passports — the exact national-level classification that Disposición 758/2022 Art. 1 gates the digital-nomad residence on ("extranjeros nacionales de países que no requieran visa de turista"). A bridge mechanism does exist for individuals: Resolución 353/2025 (Boletín Oficial, 2025-08-27) explicitly names "REPÚBLICA DE LA INDIA," authorizing Indian ordinary-passport holders with a valid current US visa or Green Card to enter for tourism without an Argentine consular visa or AVE. This is India's own bespoke mechanism — distinct from and administratively separate from the general 79-country "AVE Global" program, which India is confirmed absent from. Structurally it uses the same "Autorícese" (individual entry authorization) verb as China's Resolución 316/2025, not "Exceptúase/Exímase" (national exemption) — so it does not change India's underlying REQUIERE VISA classification or satisfy the digital-nomad residence's national-level gate. No later resolution extending digital-nomad eligibility to India was found after a targeted search.

Still open

Pending official confirmation

These verdicts are deliberately not rounded up to a clean yes or no.

Colombia: Resolución 5488 de 2022, Art. 3, Literal C (conditional short-stay visa exemption) explicitly names India at position 2 of an 8-country list — re-verified directly against the current consolidated text, unchanged since the underlying China audit and unaffected by Resolución 8558 de 2025 (which only amended Literal A, adding Israel to the visa-required list; it did not touch Literal C). The clause grants short-stay visa-free entry to holders of a valid Schengen/US visa (≥180 days remaining) or Schengen/US residence permit. The Digital Nomad Visa's nationality requirement (Resolución 5477 de 2022, Art. 46, requirement 1) reads "Ser titular de pasaporte expedido por alguno de los países o territorios exentos de visa de corta estancia, según resolución" — wording that does not distinguish Literal A (unconditional, India not included) from Literal C (conditional, India included). A genuinely new data point versus the China audit: the Colombian Consulate in New Delhi publishes a notice confirming to Indian citizens that Literal C's short-stay exemption applies to them operationally — but that notice addresses ordinary short-stay entry only and does not mention the Digital Nomad Visa. No official Cancillería FAQ, DN-visa landing page (which currently 404s), or SITAC statement was found explicitly confirming Literal C nationals qualify for the DN visa itself — this remains the single most consequential open question in the audit, unresolved for India exactly as it was for China.

Time-sensitive

Rules with an expiry or review date

Check these again before planning around them.

Greece: Law N5275/2026 (effective 2026-02-05) ended in-country switching to the DN residence permit from tourist status — the consular D-visa route in New Delhi is now the only path for visa-required nationals like Indians. Verify before relying on any in-country conversion guidance.
Thailand: Thailand's short-stay entry framework (visa exemption + VOA) is mid-restructure as of the last check: 60-day waiver still active, but Cabinet-approved for replacement, effective 15 days after Royal Gazette publication (not yet published). Re-verify before publishing — this affects entry_baseline, not the DTV visa itself.
Indonesia: Governing regulation is Permenkumham No. 22/2023 (Visa dan Izin Tinggal), amended by Permenkumham No. 11/2024 — check for a newer amendment before publishing.
Taiwan: No India-specific program is pending. The adjacent NSP visa-free trial for Thailand/Brunei/Philippines runs through 2026-07-31 and could theoretically be extended to more countries, but no official signal was found indicating India is under consideration.
Malaysia: The tourist/business visa-free waiver for India expires 2026-12-31; renewal status beyond that date had not been announced as of the last official check.
South Korea: F-1-D remains a Ministry of Justice "test operation" (pilot) program with no fixed end date currently published — terms could still change.
United Arab Emirates: Possible 2026 change to the UK-visa VOA qualifying credential is reported by secondary press but not confirmed on the official GDRFA page — re-check before publishing.
Costa Rica: The governing regulation was replaced 2025-11-17 (Gaceta N°216), cutting the required remaining validity on a qualifying US/Canada visa from 90 days to 1 day — verify this hasn't been revised again before relying on it.
Brazil: A Brazil-India reciprocity agreement in force around January 2026 extended ordinary tourist/business (VIVIS) visa validity from 5 to 10 years — this is a validity-duration upgrade to a visa Indians must still obtain before travel, not a visa waiver, and it does not change VITEM XIV's own terms (still a 1-year initial residence term plus one renewal under RN 45/2021); avoid conflating the two in any site copy.

How to read the labels

Confidence levels used on this page

Confidence labels are preserved from the underlying audit; 'official_inferred' means no explicit official statement was found. Verify with the official source before acting.

Official, explicit: An official source states the rule for India (Indian passport) applicants in so many words.
Official, inferred: Official rules contain no nationality bar, but no source addresses applicants of this nationality directly.
Official sources conflict: Two official pages disagree; the conflict is disclosed instead of picking one number.
Unverified: No official source found for this specific point. Treat as unknown, not as no.

Other passports

Same audit, other passports

The underlying nationality-gate rules are shared; each passport gets its own entry baselines and verdicts.

China (PRC): Digital nomad visas for chinese citizens — eligibility, entry baselines, and friction notes.
United States: Digital nomad visas for us citizens — eligibility, entry baselines, and friction notes.
United Kingdom: Digital nomad visas for uk citizens — eligibility, entry baselines, and friction notes.

Important. This page is informational only, not immigration or legal advice. Rules for Indianapplicants change and consulates apply their own document requirements. Open the official source on each country page and confirm with the consulate handling your application. Audit dates are shown per row; entries were last assembled on 2026-07-11.