Barbados

12-Month Barbados Welcome Stamp. Live and work remotely in Barbados for a year, with a spouse or partner and dependants, while working for people or businesses outside Barbados.

Free, with the law behind every answer

12-Month Barbados Welcome Stamp

A 12-month remote-work visa for the approved applicant and accompanying family; a new application can be made for another year.

Who qualifies

Work must be location independent; the applicant and family must not take local employment or provide services to a Barbados business or resident.
Barbados Welcome Stamp application, Applicant declaration
The applicant declares expected income of US$50,000 or more over the next 12 months and/or sufficient means to support the accompanying family.
Barbados Welcome Stamp application, Income declaration
Upload a passport photograph, passport biodata page and proof of relationship for dependants; the online form accepts new applications and renewals.
Barbados Welcome Stamp application, Application form and required documents

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

Does it fit your family?

2 questions, from the program’s own rules.

Steady monthly income, from any source?

Not legal advice.

What it takes.

Time: Barbados tourism says approvals are typically issued within seven business days; payment follows approval.
Cost: US$2,000 individual or US$3,000 family bundle, payable after approval.
The hard part: Documenting overseas work and enough income or means to support the whole family.

Citizens by 2034.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

2027
First residence permit
1 year, renewable for 1 year at a time.
2033
Apply for citizenship
2034
Citizenship

Time away: The full 12 months immediately before applying must be spent in Barbados, plus at least five years in total during the seven years before that. The Minister may accept the final continuous year ending up to six months before filing in a special case.
Two passports: Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.

A renewable one-year remote-work visa; only years actually lived in Barbados can meet the Citizenship Act’s residence test, and the stamp itself gives no permanent status.
How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.

The law behind these dates

Living there.

Time you must spend there: The program sets no minimum number of days. Renewal still expects it to be your home.
Tax: Where you become tax resident follows the days you spend there and where your home is. We map it for your family before you move.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

Start today.

Submit a new Welcome Stamp application online.Open barbadoswelcomestamp.bb ↗
Gather these documents.
- Proof of how you will support yourselves
- Request your FBI Identity History Summary
- Health cover for the move

Postern can run this for you.

$900for your first year as a founding member. Then $399 a year, automatically.One membership, the whole family. Bank accounts and help putting your plan into action are included.

Postern runs it for one adult US citizen working remotely for an overseas employer or business: the 12-month visa, payment after approval and each annual renewal.

15 steps, from the first paper to the passport. You do 4 of them: send what we ask for, sign, and show up. We run the rest, and keep every permit renewed on time. Opening your bank accounts there is included, whether you move now or keep the plan ready. Government fees, record fees and other costs you approve are extra.

Run it for my family →

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