Bermuda Work From Bermuda Certificate (Closed 2025): Requirements
What you need to qualify for the Bermuda Work From Bermuda Certificate (Closed 2025) — income, documents, and the fine print that trips people up.
Important update: Bermuda's Work From Bermuda Certificate — the dedicated digital nomad program this page originally covered — officially closed to new applications on February 28, 2025. If you've read older content describing this as an active option, that's now out of date. This page explains what happened and what current options actually exist.
The Work From Bermuda Certificate (formally the One Year Residential Certificate) stopped accepting new applications on February 28, 2025, confirmed directly by Bermuda's Department of Immigration and independent immigration law sources. It is not a temporary pause — there is currently no dedicated remote-worker visa category active in Bermuda. Anyone who already held a certificate had 90 days from its expiration to leave Bermuda unless they qualified for a different status.
The closest current option is Bermuda's standard "Permission to Reside on an Annual Basis" — a general residence permission route, not a purpose-built nomad visa. It requires demonstrating sufficient means or continuous income without needing to work for a Bermudian employer, similar in spirit to the old certificate, but it's processed under Bermuda's general immigration framework rather than a dedicated remote-work category, and approval is considered case by case rather than against a published formula.
- Proof of remote employment or self-employment with a company operating outside Bermuda
- Proof of sufficient means or continuous annual income — no fixed published threshold; assessed case by case under the current general residence framework
- Valid passport
- Health insurance
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