Visas • Residency • Tax • Citizenship
Find where you can legally live in Latin America
Compare countries by visas, residency, tax and citizenship, with every rule linked to its official source.
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Your passport
Visa-free days change by passport. This mockup uses US passport figures for every option.
Length of stay
1 yearMonthly income
$3,000Compared with each country's minimum income for residency, when your stay is longer than a tourist stay allows.
Most tax you'd pay on income from abroad
AnyOnly applies past 183 days, when most countries treat you as a tax resident.
Region
Elsewhere, with sample figures we haven't checked yet
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Countries you can stay in for your chosen length without residency papers, or whose residency doesn't ask for apostilled home-country documents.
22 countries fit
Researched figures for Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay; sample data for other countries. Not advice. Rules change; check each country's guide and legal sources.
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Darker means a better match for your settings. The number is its rank.
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