also called NLV · non-lucrative residence visa
A residence visa, notably in Spain, for people who can support themselves without working locally.
A non-lucrative visa, best known in Spain, lets you live in the country if you can support yourself from savings or passive income without working locally. The catch is right in the name: it is for people who are not earning there. It usually bars local work and often remote work too, which clashes with the way most nomads make a living.
You qualify for Spain's non-lucrative visa on your savings and settle in happily, then keep logging into your remote job as usual. That active work can sit against what the visa allows, so you find the route that got you in was never meant for someone still earning at a desk.
It permits living but usually not local or even remote work, so it can clash with active nomad income.
The difference is the whole point, so here is each one in a line.
These grant residence without working locally, in exchange for wealth, income or a purchase.
A golden visa is granted for a qualifying investment, and second-home programmes across Southeast Asia work the same way through a deposit or property: Malaysia's MM2H, its higher-income PVIP, Cambodia's CM2H, and the Cambodia E-class long-stay visa.
A non-lucrative visa is for people who can support themselves without working, and a retirement visa is the version for retirees showing a pension.
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