Montenegro

How do Indian citizens apply for the Montenegro Digital Nomad Visa?

Worth knowing: Indian ordinary passport holders are visa nationals for Montenegro: gov.me's India page states that nationals of India are required to obtain a visa to enter Montenegro, and there is no e-visa and no visa on arrival. That makes the Indian route two steps where the American or British route is one. The same gov.me India page carries the third-country carve-out directly under the country heading, so it does apply to Indians: a holder of a travel document with a valid Schengen, US, UK or Irish visa or residence permit may enter and stay up to 30 days, and no longer than the expiry of that visa if it runs shorter. gov.me's main visas article states the exemption more widely still, extending it to holders of a valid visa of Australia, Bulgaria, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland or Romania, and to residence permit holders in those states plus APEC business travel card holders. For the large number of Indians who already hold a US, Canadian or Schengen visa, that is the cheapest lawful way in. Whoever cannot use it needs the long-stay D visa, and Montenegro does list digital nomad as one of the three D visa categories, with a document set of passport valid three months beyond the visa, one 35x45 mm photo, an employment contract or other document proving electronic work for a foreign company or the applicant's own company not registered in Montenegro, a certified copy of that company's registration proof, and payment of the consular fee. The permit is in-country regardless: the applicant must enter lawfully first, then lodge in person at the MUP regional unit in the municipality of residence. The tax and social security picture splits: India's DTAA registry lists Montenegro as a comprehensive agreement (Notification No. 4/2009, S.O. 96(E), 7 January 2009, from the Convention with Serbia and Montenegro signed 8 February 2006 and in force 23 September 2008, references to Serbia and Montenegro now read as Montenegro), and Montenegro's treaty table lists India from 2009, so a treaty is in force. Montenegro appears nowhere on the MEA's list of India's social security agreement partners, so there is no totalisation and no EPFO Certificate of Coverage to offset Montenegrin contributions.