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Paraguay · Residencia Temporal · Remote worker permit · apply in country
Paraguay has no digital nomad visa. Remote workers use ordinary temporary residence under Ley 6984/2022. Article 46 grants it to a foreigner who enters in order to settle and carry out a lawful activity, for up to two years, extendable for an equal period. It is a prerequisite for permanent residence. The Dirección Nacional de Migraciones checklist has no income, savings, insurance, degree or employment-contract minimum. It asks for identity, a consular visa only when the nationality needs one, proof of entry, a birth certificate, civil status when it applies, criminal records from age 14 (home country or recent residence, Interpol, and the Policía Nacional certificate for foreigners), and two sworn statements, one of them the activity and the address in Paraguay. Foreign documents must be apostilled or legalized and translated into Spanish. Portuguese documents issued in Brazil do not need a translation. The cash fee from 1 July 2026 is Gs. 2,926,925. It includes the provisional residente precario card. That is about USD 513 at the Banco Central del Paraguay reference rate of Gs. 5,706.18 per US dollar on the sheet for 8 October 2026, consulted on 9 October 2026. Card payments are higher. An extension costs Gs. 1,287,847 in cash, about USD 226. There is no separate dependent tariff. Each person files. Children are their own category and, at the permanent stage, do not have to prove solvency. While the file is pending, precaria status allows the applicant to leave and re-enter, study and work. The granted card comes with a Paraguayan identity card for the same term. The residence is filed in person. Migraciones does not offer this residence as an online application. The January 2026 visa table is a separate step: many nationalities may enter as tourists without a visa and still need a consular visa for residence or paid activity. In that table, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru do not. The United States, Canada and Australia, under Law 7314 until 13 August 2027, may stay up to 90 days as tourists without a visa and still need a visa for residence. Permanent residence is requested in the three months before the temporary card expires, or up to one month after it with the article 87 fine of Gs. 702,462. After that month, only the temporary extension is available, and it must be requested within six months of expiry. The extension page grants a card of up to two years. The permanent card is renewed every ten years. From 6 July 2026, Resolución DNM 407/2026 asks permanent-residence applicants to prove solvency in one of 12 categories. Category 5 is trabajadores a distancia o nómadas digitales: a work certificate stating the income and how it is paid, apostilled and translated if it was issued abroad. No minimum amount is published. The Supreme Court asks for three years of permanent residence, counted from the permanent-admission resolution, before a naturalization file can start. With the temporary card first, that is about five years from this permit. Temporary residence can be cancelled after more than one continuous year abroad, and permanent residence after more than three. This is not a nomad tax exemption. Ley 6380/2019, article 48, taxes Paraguayan-source income: activity carried out in Paraguay, assets located there, and rights used there. Personal-service income is taxed, once gross income in the year passes Gs. 80,000,000, at 8 percent up to Gs. 50,000,000 of net income, 9 percent on the next slice to Gs. 150,000,000, and 10 percent above that (article 69). Capital income is 8 percent (article 60). A DNIT binding consultation on telework treats fees for work performed from Paraguay as in scope even when the client is abroad, and fees for work performed abroad as outside the tax, unless article 48.3 applies because the client is an IRE or IRP taxpayer. The statute does not set a day count for an individual's tax residence. Migraciones does not publish a processing time. It also does not say that a bank must open an account for the identity card.
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Last verified Oct 9, 2026 Last changed Oct 10, 2026 Source
bank account set to not confirmed. The identity card is issued, and no immigration page says a bank must open an account (https://migraciones.gov.py/residencia-temporal/).
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