The residence routes to Andorra: work, your own business, your partner, passive residence or remote work

Are you coming to live with your partner?

If your partner has a permit to live and work in Andorra, you can apply for family reunification after three months. Until 2025 that was a year. Your partner shows an income of 100 percent of the Andorran minimum wage (€1,568.66 a month since 1 July 2026), plus 100 percent per adult and 70 percent per child in the household. The fee is €22.61. You may work as soon as you present an employment contract.

A marriage counts. An unmarried couple only counts with an Andorran certificate of unió estable de parella, a registered partnership from the Andorran register. A Dutch registered partnership therefore has to be registered in Andorra first; ask Immigració how. If your partner lives there on passive residence or as a nomad, you come along as a dependant: your partner's income must then be 100 percent higher, and with passive residence he deposits an extra €12,000.

Can you live in Andorra without working?

Yes, with the residència sense activitat lucrativa, passive residence. Since 13 February 2026 the requirements are:

• an investment of at least €1,000,000 in Andorran assets: property (more than €800,000 per home), shares in Andorran companies, Andorran government debt, a life insurance policy with an Andorran insurer or an interest-free deposit with the AFA; €400,000 in the Fons d'Habitatge, the housing fund, is also allowed;
• a deposit of €50,000 for yourself and €12,000 per family member, which you do not get back;
• an annual income of more than 300 percent of the minimum wage, about €56,500, plus 100 percent per family member;
• a private policy that covers all medical costs in Andorra, for people over 60 only medical costs;
• living in Andorra at least 90 days a year, in a home you own or rent.

The fees are €3,000, plus €1,000 per family member. The permit is valid for two years, then two, then three, and after seven years ten years. In 2026 there are 163 places. Whoever worked in Andorra on a work permit and retires there does not need this route: that person simply remains a resident.

Do you work remotely?

For work that does not require a fixed location there is the route for nomads. You need a favourable decision from the Ministry of Economy in advance, a home, health and disability insurance and "sufficient means". What amount that is, is not on the website and not in the decrees: ask. You live in Andorra at least 90 days a year. The permit is valid for two years, then two, then three, then ten. The quota from 2023 is 100 places; whether there is still room cannot be seen. A heavier variant is the permit for professionals with international projection, with ten places in 2026.

What applies after your application?

For every route you submit a police certificate no more than three months old, with an apostille. Immigració may ask for a translation into Catalan by a sworn translator. After you submit, there is a medical examination, and the day after that your permit. Then you register with the comú, the municipality: within three months, with passive residence and as a nomad within one month. See registration and numbers in Andorra.

Becoming Andorran takes a long time: twenty years of residence, Catalan at B1, and you give up your Dutch nationality.

In Vertrekklaar this is phase 2 of 5 of the journey, step 2.1: the same steps, but for your situation — in your order, tickable, and with the deadlines watched. See the whole journey to Andorra or go straight to step 2.1 in the open plan.