Guide
Portugal's D8 digital nomad visa: the article 61.º-B route
By Covered Abroad Research Desk · Last verified July 2026
The legal base: article 61.º-B
The consolidated immigration law states the route in one sentence: a residence visa is granted a trabalhadores subordinados e profissionais independentes for professional activity performed de forma remota for natural or legal persons com domicílio ou sede fora do território nacional — with the employment link or the provision of services to be demonstrated, as the case may be. The article was added by Lei 18/2022, in force since 26 August 2022 — the D8's birthday.
Source: Lei 23/2007 (texto consolidado), artigo 61.º-B — Diário da República, read 10 September 2026.
The income bar: four minimum wages
The D8's money test, as normalised in our routes dataset: average monthly income over the last three months of at least four times Portugal's guaranteed minimum monthly remuneration (RMMG) — with the 2026 RMMG at €920 (Decreto-Lei 139/2025), that is €3,680 per month. Note the shape of the test: a three-month average, not a single payslip — a freelancer's lumpy months are averaged, and the paper trail (contracts, invoices, bank statements) carries the argument.
Source: Lei 23/2007, art. 61.º-B; income normalisation per our routes dataset (4 × RMMG 2026), read 10 September 2026.
60-second check
Not sure the policy you have meets your destination's written rule? Run it through the policy check now, before you build the rest of the file around it.
Check my policyThe two checkpoints — and where insurance enters
Like every Portuguese residence route, the D8 runs through two gates: the consulate visa stage, then the AIMA residence-permit appointment in Portugal — and both look for health cover, on the pattern our D8 insurance guide maps in detail. The D8 also comes in two flavours in consular practice — the residence visa toward a permit, and a temporary-stay variant for shorter remote-work spells — and the consulate of your residence publishes the operative checklist for each. For which countries' nomads actually use the D8 and how it compares to Spain's and Greece's routes, start with the European overview.
Source: Lei 23/2007, artigo 61.º-B — Diário da República, read 10 September 2026.