Moving to Andorra means obtaining a residence authorisation, granted through four routes: employee of an Andorran company, director of your own company, resident without gainful activity, or digital economy. Each has its own conditions, its deposit and its annual quota. Setup Andorra, a private gestoria in Andorra la Vella, has been handling these files for ten years.
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WHAT WE ARE ASKED MOST
They depend on the status. To run your Andorran company you must hold more than 34 % of the capital, hold a management role and pay a €50,000 deposit to the AFA. To live without gainful activity you must invest at least €1,000,000 in Andorran assets. 2026 quotas: 150 authorisations for company directors, 163 for residents without gainful activity.
The law does not set a salary, it sets a minimum income, and only for residency without gainful activity: at least 300 % of the annual Andorran minimum wage. For the active statuses, it is your activity that carries the file, not an income threshold. The real cost depends above all on housing.
Think in euros per square metre, not in average rent. The official register of contracts gives €18.19 per square metre for leases signed in 2025, against 7,8 € for older leases renewed: a newcomer pays more than twice what the neighbour already settled pays.
Most contracts fall between €500 and €1,000 a month. Source: SICAR register, Govern d’Andorra, November 2025, excluding Escaldes-Engordany, whose data is not yet in the register. The detail of the market is on our page finding a home in Andorra.
Housing is expensive and scarce. Highly specialised care often means crossing the border. There is no airport, and winter cuts off some valleys. The country also requires a real presence: a minimum of 90 days per calendar year for residency without gainful activity, failing which the authorisation is lost at renewal.
Not under Andorran resident status: it assumes your activity and the centre of your interests are in Andorra. Cross-border work exists in the other direction, into the Principality, under specific authorisation. And your country of departure can keep taxing you until the conditions for leaving are met.
FOUR ROUTES, NOT ONE
Active status · employee
The employer files the application. You have no company to form and no investment to place.
Active status · director
The route for entrepreneurs and the self-employed. It necessarily involves forming a company.
Without gainful activity
Often called “passive residency”. It is the status whose conditions changed most in 2026.
Digital economy
A category created by Llei 42/2022 for people working remotely or running an innovative project.
THE QUESTION PEOPLE ASK LAST
The sums involved in a move are not all of the same kind. The AFA deposit goes to the State: you do not see it again. The Andorran investment and the share capital remain your assets, simply tied up in the Principality. Adding them into a single figure, as most guides do, is misleading. Here are the two columns, kept apart.
FROM DECISION TO ARRIVAL
The status that fits you depends on what you will do in Andorra, not on your wealth. Five questions are enough to identify it, and to rule out the other three.
This is the stage most firms keep quiet about. Before looking at Andorra, we look at the terms of your departure: that is where the nasty surprises happen.
Company, investment, civil status documents, criminal record, insurance, housing. For residency per compte propi, foreign investment authorisation comes before incorporation, and the ministry rules within two months, extendable by half, with silence counting as refusal.
Authorisations are capped each year. Filing early in the year changes the timetable more reliably than any amount of chasing.
Getting residency takes a few months, keeping it in order takes years: accounts, tax returns, CASS registration, real presence. That is the job of our gestoria.
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The first thirty-minute consultation is free. You leave with the status that matches your situation and the reason the others are ruled out, the list of documents to gather with realistic timings, and the budget for your move including fees and deposits.
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