Paraguay Self-Employed Residency · no income threshold Your residency in Paraguay,
self-employed.

Freelancer, consultant or digital nomad: get your Paraguayan residency without setting up a company and with no income threshold. We handle the application, you keep your freedom.

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4 months
Processing time
≈ 3%
of revenue (IRE SIMPLE)
0%
Capital gains
Permanent
Residency
€1,900
From
Self-employed expat settled in Paraguay - freelancer and digital nomad
Thisma Amandine Viky Louis
Experts on hand
No company needed
0 income threshold
Family included
Self-employed life in Paraguay

Your business, your residency.

You invoice clients (freelancer, consultant, digital nomad) or you live off your own capital.

Paraguayan residency requires no company, no income threshold and no investment. Temporary at first, then permanent, with one of the lightest tax regimes in the world.

Living off your capital? Nothing to declare locally. Invoicing clients from Paraguay? An optional sole proprietorship (empresa unipersonal) is enough, and it is taxed very lightly.

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Joined by self-employed expats

No threshold, no company

The standard residency route sets no income or investment threshold. No company to build: you stay self-employed, in your own name, with just a personal tax ID (RUC) if you are aiming for tax residency.

Lasting residency at the end

Temporary residency (temporary residence permit, up to 2 years) then permanent residency through a change of category, with the cédula de identidad (Paraguayan ID card) valid for 10 years; the key to everyday life (banking, leases, exchanges).

Family included

Your spouse and children each file their own residency application, alongside yours, on the basis of apostilled and translated civil status records. Your spouse gets a residency of their own, which allows them to study and work in Paraguay.

Territorial taxation

0% on your foreign-source income

Investments, capital gains, crypto, work performed outside Paraguay: 0%.

0%
Foreign source
≈ 3%
of revenue - IRE SIMPLE
0
Wealth / inheritance

The 0% applies to income that is genuinely foreign-source (investments, capital gains, crypto, work performed outside Paraguay), including managing your own portfolio from Paraguay, which is not a local activity and requires no structure. Invoicing clients from Paraguay, on the other hand, creates local income: in your own name it falls under the IRE SIMPLE regime (10% on actual profit or on a deemed 30% of revenue, i.e. approx. 3% of revenue, up to ₲2 billion a year, approx. €230-250k); we set up the sole proprietorship (empresa unipersonal) for you; the personal tax ID (RUC) is included in all our packs. We say it plainly rather than selling you an illusory "0%".

Eligibility

This route is right for you if...

What you're looking for

Living off your business or your investments

Freelancer, consultant, digital nomad, crypto trader, dividends or capital gains

A lightweight setup

No company to create; in your own name, with just a personal tax ID (RUC)

Lasting residency

Temporary then permanent, with a cédula (ID card) valid for 10 years

Low taxation

0% on foreign-source income; no wealth tax and no inheritance tax

Bringing your family

Spouse and children: individual applications filed alongside yours

Requirements

No legal threshold

No minimum investment or income required

Apostilled documents

Birth certificate, criminal record certificate (home country); apostilled + translated into Spanish

Clean record & passport

Record valid 3 months + Interpol certificate + Paraguayan police check; passport valid ≥ 6 months

Personal tax ID (RUC) (tax option)

Not required for the card, but needed for the tax residency certificate

To keep up afterwards

Permanent conversion filed 3 months before the 2-year mark; cédula renewed every 10 years

Check my eligibility

20-minute discovery call • No commitment

Not self-employed?

Entrepreneur (set up a company in Paraguay) Retired (foreign pension) Living in Paraguay (overview)

Setting up an operating company in Paraguay (productive investment ≥ USD 70,000) or placing capital (≥ USD 200,000)? The Entrepreneur page covers the company route; the Investor page covers passive investment (Paraguay Investor Pass).

BlueVisa handles everything for you

Relocating is a complex process: documents, deadlines, multiple contacts. We take care of everything and you follow the progress in real time.

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Self-Employed Timeline

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Apostilled file

Approved on 12 March

Residency filing (DNM)

In progress

The immigration authority (Dirección Nacional de Migraciones, DNM) is reviewing your residency application. Interpol certificate up to date.

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Cédula (ID card) & personal RUC (tax ID)

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Are my crypto capital gains taxed in Paraguay?
Your foreign-source gains stay at 0%. Above USD 5,000 a year in cumulative movements there is a simple reporting obligation; not a tax. We will walk you through it.
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Your move to Paraguay in 6 steps

From preparing your documents to your tax residency.

01
Weeks 0-4

Preparation & apostilles

From home. Two documents: birth certificate and criminal record certificate. We have them apostilled, then translated into Spanish.

BlueVisa expertise

We drive the apostilles and translations, and request the record at the right time: it is only valid for 3 months.

02
Weeks 4-6

Filing your residency (Asunción)

A single 3-4 day trip, and everything happens in one day: local record checks, filing at the immigration office, biometrics. You leave with the admisión precaria. The rest follows without coming back: everything is collected by proxy.

BlueVisa expertise

File ready before you fly, support on site throughout the trip.

03
Months 4-5

Temporary residency granted

About 3 months of waiting, then your temporary residence card (valid 2 years) is ready. No need to come back: we collect it for you.

BlueVisa expertise

We track the file and answer the authorities on your behalf.

04
Months 5-6

Cédula de identidad (ID card)

1.5 months later, you receive the cédula: the Paraguayan ID card, valid for 10 years. It is what opens everything: banking, leases, exchanges. Still without coming back.

BlueVisa expertise

Follow-up until the card is handed over; about 6 months in total from the start of the file.

05
Months 6-7

Personal RUC & tax residency

We register you for the tax ID (RUC), included in all our packs. From All Inclusive up, we also obtain your tax residency certificate.

BlueVisa expertise

Introduction to a partner accountant (All Inclusive and Strategic).

Settling in & permanent residency

Your life is set up. Around the 2-year mark, we file your switch to permanent residency: a single one-day return trip to Asunción.

BlueVisa expertise

Bank account, dependents, first-year follow-up (All Inclusive).

Our Packs

Choose your level of support

From administrative residency to tax residency and wealth support, we are with you at every step.

Essential

1,900 €incl. VAT *

Temporary → permanent residency · Tax ID (RUC)

  • End-to-end file management by your expert
  • Your BlueVisa dashboard to steer your whole move
  • Temporary residence card (up to 2 years)
  • Cédula (ID card)
  • Apostilles and sworn translations coordinated
  • Personal tax ID (RUC) included (to invoice in your own name)
  • Conversion to permanent residency (at ~24 months)
  • Settling-in guides included
  • Access to the BlueVisa expat community
  • +€400 per dependent

Ideal for: Independent freelancers

Popular

All Inclusive

2,800 €incl. VAT *

Temporary → permanent residency · Tax residency · Personal banking

  • Everything in Essential, plus:
  • Tax residency certificate (DNIT)
  • Forms and documents pre-filled by BlueVisa (0 paperwork is the goal)
  • Introduction to a partner accountant (external)
  • Opening a personal bank account
  • Arrival concierge: help with school enrollment, basic logistics
  • Help finding housing and preparing your viewings
  • €120 per dependent (instead of €400)
  • Administrative follow-up for the first year

Ideal for: Freelancers & Families

Strategic

5,600 €incl. VAT *

All Inclusive + wealth advice

  • Everything in All Inclusive, plus:
  • Personalized tax advice (framing your exit from your current tax jurisdiction and your tax residency)
  • Strategy for realizing capital gains (crypto, equities, dividends)
  • Turnkey settling in: housing search, school, year-1 concierge
  • Introductions to our local experts (wealth, legal)

Ideal for: Wealth & premium relocation

Book a discovery call (Free)

We assess your situation and settle on the right pack and budget.

* Excluding Paraguayan government and administrative fees: expect ~€900 in total (residence cards, cédula (ID card), apostilles and translations). Registering for the tax ID (RUC) is free.

Frequently Asked Questions

As a freelancer, is the income I invoice to foreign clients tax-exempt (0%)?
Not if you work from Paraguay. The legal test is where the activity is carried out (art. 48 of Law 6380/2019), not where the client is: work performed on site is Paraguayan-source, even when invoiced to a foreign client. To operate in your own name, you open a sole proprietorship (empresa unipersonal), taxed under the IRE SIMPLE regime (up to ₲2 billion of revenue a year, approx. €230-250k): 10% on the lower of actual profit and a deemed base of 30% of revenue; that is approx. 3% of revenue under the deemed method. VAT can be 0% as an export of services. The 0% tax rate applies to income that is genuinely foreign-source (investments, capital gains, work performed outside Paraguay). Figures to be confirmed with our adviser based on your situation.
And how are my investments and my crypto treated?
Foreign-source passive income (dividends, securities capital gains, crypto gains) is taxed at 0%, whether repatriated or not. For crypto, above USD 5,000 a year in cumulative movements, there is a simple reporting obligation (not a tax) introduced by RG DNIT 47/26, with a first return in March 2027; Paraguay remains outside CRS and CARF. And if you live off crypto, your holdings are welcome: the only requirement is that they be traceable and of lawful origin (exchange statements, transaction history); we structure the file with you.
Is living off managing my own capital (trading, crypto) from Paraguay an activity taxed locally?
No. Managing your own capital (trading, stock markets, crypto for your own account) is not a professional service rendered on site: it is personal wealth management. Your gains therefore remain foreign-source, at 0% for a resident individual, even when you operate from Paraguay; unlike freelance work invoiced to clients, which does become local-source. So you need neither a company nor a sole proprietorship (empresa unipersonal); setting up the sole proprietorship, included in our packs together with the tax ID (RUC), only concerns those who invoice services. Careful: holding that capital in a Paraguayan company would make it local-source (corporate income tax (IRE) 10%, then dividend tax (IDU) 8% on distribution).
Is the personal tax ID (RUC) mandatory?
No, the RUC is not required to obtain your residence card or your cédula. It is needed, however, if you are aiming for the tax residency certificate (DNIT): that certificate requires an active RUC and a documented local-source activity. Good news: registering for the RUC is free. That is precisely the value of the All-inclusive pack, which adds the personal RUC, the tax residency certificate and an introduction to a partner accountant.
How long does it take, and how many trips to Paraguay?
A single trip covers the whole first phase: a stay of at least 3-4 days in Asunción, during which everything is done in one day (Interpol certificate and Paraguayan police check, filing with the immigration authority (DNM), identification appointment with biometrics); you leave with the admisión precaria. The temporary card arrives about 3 months later, then the cédula (ID card) about 1.5 months after that; both can be collected without coming back (pick-up by proxy). In total, expect about 4 to 5 months between filing and the cédula. A one-day return to Asunción is then needed at around 1 year and 9 months for the switch to permanent residency (the conversion is filed 3 months before the 2-year deadline). Worth knowing: being on site also speeds up the tax residency file with the tax authority (DNIT).
Is there an income or investment threshold to meet?
No. The general residency route (Ley N° 6984/2022) sets no income or investment threshold: that is what makes it the ideal route for the self-employed. The only conditions are a clean criminal record certificate (valid 3 months) and a passport valid for at least 6 months. If you set up a company or invest significant capital, other routes exist; see the Entrepreneur page.
Does the cédula automatically make me a tax resident?
No: administrative residency and tax residency are two separate things. The cédula (ID card) is not enough. The tax residency certificate (DNIT, RG 65/2020) requires a cédula, an active tax ID (RUC) and a documented local-source activity (or substantial presence, ~120 days a year). There is also no tax treaty between France and Paraguay: the Paraguayan certificate alone does not take you out of French taxation. A genuine departure is needed (home, main place of stay, center of economic interests). We discuss it from the discovery call onwards.
Can my spouse and children come with me?
Yes. Each family member files their own residency application, alongside yours, on a family-tie basis (marriage certificate and birth certificates, apostilled and translated). Your spouse gets a residency of their own, which allows them to study and work in Paraguay. Support for dependents remains available as an option (+€400 per dependent, down to €120 from the All Inclusive pack up).
How much time must I spend in Paraguay to be a Paraguayan tax resident?
Administrative residency (residence card + cédula (ID card)) does not make you a tax resident. For the tax residency certificate (DNIT), substantial presence of about 120 days a year is expected (or a documented local-source activity / income). In other words, spending ~4 months a year in Paraguay is the benchmark that makes your tax residency defensible. And since there is no tax treaty between France and Paraguay, a genuine departure from France (home, main place of stay, center of economic interests) is still required.
Do I have to stay a minimum amount of time to keep my Paraguayan residency?
Yes, but it is flexible. During the temporary residency phase, you must not be away for more than 12 consecutive months, or you lose it. Once permanent residency is granted, a single visit every ~3 years is enough to maintain it. Not to be confused with tax residency, which calls for far more regular presence (~120 days a year).

Your self-employed residency in Paraguay

No company, no income threshold, one of the lightest tax regimes in the world and honest guidance on the tax side. We take care of everything, you keep your freedom.

€0 income threshold
0% foreign source
10 years permanent cédula (ID card)
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