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Show HN: Nomad Visa - Working remotely? Explore your visa options
Author : svnsch
Score : 257 points
Date : 2021-08-13 10:30 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (nomadvisa.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (nomadvisa.io)
| dagw wrote:
| Nice site! However it did take me quite a long time to realize I
| could scroll down on the landing page to see more options.
| Perhaps you can add something to make that clearer.
|
| Also, and this might just be me, I need a "Skiing" filter much
| more than I need a "Warm" filter.
| svnsch wrote:
| Thanks! Oh, that explains some of the comments... i didn't
| realise that myself. So great feedback! Will add the skiing
| filter in the future :)
| sdze wrote:
| Clean WebApp but Safari alerts that the page uses a lot of
| memory... Not nice!
| svnsch wrote:
| Thanks! I know about the issue and couldn't figure out how to
| really solve it, yet. Still a beginner in web development. If
| anyone has a link/info. Let me know.
| sdflhasjd wrote:
| It seems to run a bit oddly on Firefox on Android for me
| (Samsung S10e) even changing the theme from dark to light
| took a few seconds.
| jll29 wrote:
| I think the European Union has great mobility rules, so one can
| now live anywhere, without needing papers to travel or move; now
| if it can manage to create nomadic visas that permit qualified
| workers from outside to join this system (like the US O-1 visa,
| but valid for all EU countries), it would be a great driver to
| innovation in Europe. (I will share that idea with the
| Commission.)
|
| Can't speak to the legal elements other than suggest work with a
| specialized law firm to get through arcane rules for living in x
| working in y (as lawyers say when you ask them a question, "it
| depends") - it's expensive but perhaps you can bake it into your
| cost of contracting. Not just the visa and work permit questions
| are tricky, also taxation: the UK has something called IR35,
| which has recently made it harder for freelancer even _in_ the
| country to do contract work.
|
| PS: From November and May onward, I will likely need 1-2 data
| science researchers for 36 months, so if you are potentially
| interested in working in Germany and have a curious mind and a
| background in machine learning and NLP, e-mail me at leidner at
| acm dot org.
| hutzlibu wrote:
| Yes, there are many valid criticism about the EU in lots of
| things.
|
| But the open border part (once you are in), is just awesome.
| klipt wrote:
| The EU lets EU citizens move around freely. But if you're a
| non-EU citizen on say, a German work visa, that wouldn't let
| you work in Spain. For truly free movement they would have to
| replace all the country specific visas with EU wide visas, so
| that once a foreigner has for example an EU wide work visa,
| they can use it in all EU countries.
| raviisoccupied wrote:
| This is cool, but I feel like I should be able to select my
| country of origin immediately when I select the destination I'm
| interested in, rather than having to reselect each time I explore
| a visa.
| jobigoud wrote:
| I don't even see where you can change your origin
| citizenship... Neither on the front page or on each
| destinations.
| svnsch wrote:
| You can adjust your origin country on the tourist visa page.
| On mobile just refresh the page.
| milross wrote:
| I'm planning to become a digital nomad but don't have any ideas
| about the visas yet. Now, this can certainly give me some
| insights into the future.
| Luuseens wrote:
| The visa recommendations seem wrong, at least for my country
| (Latvia).
|
| The site claims I need a tourist visa for all EU countries
| (wrong), and do not need a visa to visit Russia (also wrong).
| jarofgreen wrote:
| I saw a similar project on HN before but I can't find it now.
| I'll make the same comment tho, and it builds on this comment:
|
| Please provide links back to official information pages. For
| something as important as a visa, I'm just never going to trust
| a random third party source.
| dcdc123 wrote:
| I was hoping to put in my Visa and country where employer is and
| see a list of countries I could go work remotely from.
| Beached wrote:
| nice concept, however when I select a country I am shown visas
| that are not available to me. the first step should be a list of
| where I hold passports, THEN I can select countries that then
| have their results filtered by my citizenships
| digianarchist wrote:
| Worth noting that it isn't legal to work on a tourist visa in
| most countries.
| ghaff wrote:
| You're almost universally not allowed to take local work.
|
| But many (the vast majority in my personal experience which
| tends not to extend to countries with a lot of paperwork
| requirements) either explicitly allow business purposes like
| conferences and meeting with customers or don't care.
|
| If you decide to remote work from someplace for a month or two,
| I might not get a co-working space or blog about it, but in
| most cases no one cares.
| digianarchist wrote:
| Businesses purposes usually has a strict definition that
| doesn't extend to operating a business from said country for
| extended periods of time. Nevermind the tax implications.
|
| Other countries are far more explicit in law that any paid
| (or unpaid) remuneration is a visa violation. Thailand for
| example.
|
| > don't care
|
| That's the key phrase here. Personally I don't care that
| authorities don't enforce their immigration laws but it
| should be explicitly stated that you are violating your visa
| on sites such as this and Nomadlist.
| Mikeb85 wrote:
| But there's definitely legal grey areas. Like, if you're on
| vacation but have a job back home, are you prohibited from
| answering work emails? Sending a commit from your hotel room?
| When does it go from doing work on vacation to 'working'?
| ghaff wrote:
| For that matter, even if I'm attending an event, meeting with
| customers, talking to press, etc. I think the only place I've
| ever needed to get a "business visa" is China. I'm guessing
| there were other cases where I was _technically_ supposed to
| but no one does.
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| The first thing I did was check for Costa Rica's new digital
| nomad visa, which they don't list on this site yet because it
| just got signed into law a few days ago:
|
| https://ticotimes.net/2021/08/11/costa-rica-signs-law-to-att...
|
| Highly suggested! This country is the best, I've been here for
| the better part of a decade now and can't recommend it enough.
| There's fibre to the home rollout in more of the country than
| I've seen in north america, I don't want to strangle anyone here
| and the people are so open and friendly, the weather is great as
| long as you can stand some 15-60 minutes of heavy rain every day
| during the rainy season. Bring battery backup for internet on a
| 4g modem and you're good to go for a couple of hours of power
| outages before the cell tower battery goes out too (Rare that
| it's out that long!)
|
| Personally I'm up in the mountains instead of the beach because I
| prefer the climate but it's crazy how little I pay comparatively
| on rent and food in this part of the world. The most expensive
| thing here is honestly just electronics -- Bring them in from out
| of the country because they tax those like mad. People ask me if
| it's dangerous here, and whenever something bad happens to Puerto
| Rico my inbox gets flooded with people asking if I'm OK (haha
| check a map for once!) but pretty much as long as you stay the
| fuck away from the 10$ grams of cocaine you'll be fine. Don't do
| that shit in any country, they grind up the bones of narco
| victims into the cut and it's just a general bad karma magnet.
| It's my first bit of advice to anyone in the country asking me if
| it's safe because 95% of the problems I see people encounter have
| to do with them not being able to heed this type of advice.
| maerF0x0 wrote:
| Hooked me with talk of Costa Rica and it's safety, got a free
| lesson about drugs along the way...
| zebnyc wrote:
| Any recommended resources / tips on how to go about buying real
| estate in Costa Rica? Am also a fan of the mountains.
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| Yeah for sure! You want to consider foreclosed properties
| purchased through the bank in order to mitigate risks that
| you might face if you just go through some shady real estate
| agnet or whatever:
|
| https://www.bnventadebienes.com/
|
| My best advice is to be competent in Spanish before starting
| any business negotiations here and that includes buying
| properties.
| MrRiddle wrote:
| Excuse me but you're talking how the country is great then go
| on talking how they grind peoples bones into cocaine? WTF
| jonfw wrote:
| Every country would look pretty terrible if we judged them by
| the bottom of their barrel
| 4r4r4r wrote:
| Chicago Crime 2021 https://heyjackass.com/
|
| A person is shot every 1:56 A person is murdered every 10:44
| Thru 8/12
|
| August To Date Shot & Killed: 35 Shot & Wounded: 184 Total
| Shot: 219 Total Homicides: 36
|
| Chicago Crime 2021 Week in Progress (8/8 - 8/14) Shot &
| Killed: 12 Shot & Wounded: 80 Total Shot: 92 Total Homicides:
| 12
|
| Chicago Crime 2021 Year to Date Shot & Killed: 475 Shot &
| Wounded: 2306 Total Shot: 2781 Total Homicides: 501
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| haha yeah don't do that stuff the world would be so much
| better without it in general
|
| it's actually incredibly easy if you just hang out with
| locals and avoid tourists/expats
| vaidhy wrote:
| I have been thinking about CR.. Does Spanish become a
| requirement for daily life? I am sure I can pick up a
| smattering of any language as long as I live there.. but I do
| want to get through the first few months :)
|
| Edit: One other thing - How about international/English schools
| for middle school kids?
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| Yeah it's pretty good to learn the language of any foreign
| country while being there. It's not that hard to just power
| through a book or two and pick up pronunciation by making
| friends with people who barely speak English. If you REALLY
| want to accelerate it get into a relationship with someone
| who barely speaks your language, actually - I have a lot of
| fun dating girls who are trying to learn English but my
| Spanish is good enough to give me some better chances
| starting out
|
| Response to edit: Yeah the international schools here are
| really good, I actually have a friend teaching at a German
| language one for kids which is well renowned so there's even
| options outside of English immersion
| vaidhy wrote:
| Thanks.. I do not think I can convince my wife that I am
| dating girls to learn the language.. but I will power
| through the books..
|
| CR has been my top retirement destination for long..
| between the forests and scuba diving, it would be my ideal
| country.
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| Yeah you're a family man, that's great, I've met a lot of
| people who have actually moved their families out this
| direction to do stuff like start businesses, and many of
| them are quite happy. Feel free to make some local
| friends though, really the best way to get to know the
| language in any case
| sureglymop wrote:
| So are you working a remote job? Or why is it so inexpensive to
| live in this specific country for you?
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| Of course
|
| Currency in my home country is crap, USD stretches out really
| far in any country that's not in North America or EU
| hunter-2 wrote:
| 'Working remote' visa options all look great till I start
| researching on how the job market is, in general. Because my
| spouse is going to have to do something too.
| wingerlang wrote:
| Maybe at least mention that it IS sometimes illegal to work in
| the countries.
| zerr wrote:
| Regarding Freelance visas, some countries (e.g. Germany [1])
| require you to have local clients. So not an option for self-
| employed/indies. Would be nice to have similar info about
| countries that doesn't require you to work for someone else.
|
| EDIT: 1. https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/how-to-get-a-german-
| freela....
| jacquesm wrote:
| This is to the best of my knowledge incorrect. I know more than
| one person that came to Germany as self employed without having
| customers prior to immigration.
| jamil7 wrote:
| I don't know about that exact rule (most of my clients are not
| German). Honestly in my experience of living here and
| freelancing on this visa a lot of these requirements seem to be
| up to the discretion of the person doing the interview /
| checking your documents.
|
| Edit: See here https://www.gesetze-im-
| internet.de/englisch_aufenthg/englisc...
|
| (1) A foreigner may be granted a temporary residence permit for
| the purpose of self-employment if
|
| 1. an economic interest or a regional need applies,
|
| 2. the activity is expected to have positive effects on the
| economy and
|
| 3. personal capital on the part of the foreigner or a loan
| undertaking is available to realise the business idea.
| nicbou wrote:
| I can confirm. I wrote the guide above and spend a lot of
| time dealing with the immigration office. They're a real box
| of chocolates, and some are filled with raisins.
| jamil7 wrote:
| Thanks for that resource, it was extremely helpful when
| renewing my visa.
| bravura wrote:
| Actually, Germany only requires non-binding letters of intent
| from potential clients, upon which they extrapolate your
| income, which they want to be above the poverty line (1500 EUR
| a month in Germany, IIRC).
|
| Sources: Many friends getting freelance visas, a visa lawyer.
| drusepth wrote:
| The Germany Freelance Visa link lists you having an address
| in Germany as one of the requirements, though. I'm not sure
| if that's an existing address or just a general "you have to
| stay somewhere and not be homeless".
| nicbou wrote:
| I wrote the guide linked above. You are right, but when it's
| time to renew your visa, they aren't so lenient. You can also
| get a shorter visa if your case isn't compelling enough.
| svnsch wrote:
| That's a valid point. I need to adjust that. Thanks!
| nicbou wrote:
| Give that linked guide a good read. You can actually get the
| visa without local clients, but you can't get it renewed.
| bko wrote:
| I'm sure a lot of people look up their home countries or
| countries which they are familiar with. You may want to
| consider a simple form where people can issue corrections
| that get emailed to you. Essentially crowdsource data.
| svnsch wrote:
| Thats a good idea!
| unixhero wrote:
| It would be useful to change HOME COUNTRY. All your users are not
| from the States you know.
| sanmak wrote:
| App Looks good! Mind to share from where did you collate data. I
| believe data is the key and it should be regularly updated.
| svnsch wrote:
| True! Tourist visas are crawled daily by wikipedia. Not a big
| thing. Open data. The other visa types are acquired manually
| from official resources. If Nomad Visa reaches at least some
| traction, i will build scripts that notify me when changes
| occur or built scraping scripts. Not sure if the effort is
| worth it, yet.
| KaiserPro wrote:
| Is there any hard data about the benefits of a digital nomad type
| visa to the _host country_?
|
| The obvious answer is that they have a similar impact as long
| term holidaymakers. But I'd like some sort of evidence, rather
| than my own uninformed gut feeling
| Proven wrote:
| Digital nomads create CO2 pollution
| merrvk wrote:
| Excellent resource, thanks for putting this together
| svnsch wrote:
| Thanks :) Glad that you like it
| intricatedetail wrote:
| So you let company underpay you and then you move to a cheaper
| country in order to survive? Bum-engineer visa sounds more
| appropriate. Why engineers don't value their skills?
| mynameisvlad wrote:
| Who said anything about letting a company underpay you?
|
| Most do a digital nomad setup in order to have fewer living
| expenses and therefore more quickly save up and retire early.
| Nothing about working for less money while doing it.
| ghaff wrote:
| I expect most digital nomads don't work for employers--though
| I've known limited time exceptions within the US. For
| employers, I imagine it would create tax and accounting
| headaches and, while people can and do have working vacations
| and such, that's different from heading to Thailand for three
| months to work remote.
| lastofthemojito wrote:
| I think your list of countries is too long.
|
| First off, North Korea - really? Is anyone seriously considering
| being a digital nomad in North Korea? There doesn't seem to be
| any information of value on that page. Same with other places
| like Vatican City where one isn't realistically going to go as a
| digital nomad.
|
| I also see US territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, USVI and
| American Samoa as their own countries, but they don't handle
| visas/immigration. They're just part of the USA. I suspect the
| same is true of the British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands, etc
| as part of the UK.
|
| Rather than have a long, noisy list that seems like it's probably
| dynamically generated from something like an ISO 3166 country
| list I think it'd be better to only create entries for countries
| where you have meaningful content.
|
| Outside of those objections, I do think this idea has value - it
| certainly is a nice idea to have this information in one place,
| presented in a consistent way.
| lastofthemojito wrote:
| Speaking of silly data - the page for Antarctica doesn't render
| - I see "TypeError: t.selectedCountryData.cities[0] is
| undefined" in my console:
|
| https://nomadvisa.io/antarctica
| mynameisvlad wrote:
| The countries at the top of the list are known for being nomad-
| friendly, so there is likely some curation going on there.
| totetsu wrote:
| New Zealand isn't processing most visa applications at the moment
| cultofmetatron wrote:
| I'm a digital nomad. I've been interested in a trip planner that
| takes into account both mine and a significant other's visa.
| (very high chance we dont' share citizenship to the same country)
|
| Something that lets me plan for a multi month to a year long
| campaign while minimizing flight costs/living expenses or takes
| my budget into account would be amazing.
| Tiktaalik wrote:
| I think you should add a "I don't know" button on the front page,
| in answer to the "where do you want to work remotely" question.
|
| I don't know where I want to work, im flexible, but show me what
| is good.
| sascha_sl wrote:
| This might be another interesting dataset to add:
|
| https://ilga.org/downloads/ILGA_State_Sponsored_Homophobia_2...
| whall6 wrote:
| The country list was not in alphabetical order. That would be
| helpful
| noisy_boy wrote:
| Instead of me choosing the country first, why not ask me about
| the passport I hold and then show all the countries that have
| visas that allow me to work remotely? I tried a few places and I
| only got Tourist Visa as available visa - gave up after a while.
| svnsch wrote:
| You can go to "digital nomad visas" for e.g. and explore all
| countries with this kind of visa. Also in "country view" you
| can see and filter countries for the types of visas you are
| interested in. The origin country mapping is currently only
| done with tourist visas.
| goodpoint wrote:
| The pattern is completely backward. The visitor should input
| their current visas, their savings and ability to invest and
| get a map accordingly.
| svnsch wrote:
| Good point goodpoint! Great feedback!
| [deleted]
| MattGaiser wrote:
| I find this to be a common problem with websites. They should
| take the customer from their starting point instead.
| svnsch wrote:
| As mentioned in another comment, you can also scroll down on
| the landingpage and explore other visa types.
| mouzogu wrote:
| It's right there on the homepage.
|
| I'm not sure how accurate these are though.
| is0tope wrote:
| Looks really good! Did you do both the backend and the front end
| yourself?
| svnsch wrote:
| Thank you! Yes, it has been quite a ride learning it. Backend
| is Django (i am familiar with Python). Frontend is Nuxt (total
| noob in JS).
| is0tope wrote:
| I've done django. Can't say I've done nuxt, though I have
| done vue before. I think your design skills are great! I've
| always been a backend guy and that's the part I've found
| really hard.
| svnsch wrote:
| Thank you! Sounds good! Well nuxt is a vue famework and
| yeah, vue is amazing. I use vuetify which makes it easy to
| "design" the frontend. You should check that out.
| dutchbrit wrote:
| https://nomadvisa.io/united-states/eb-5-visa seems to have a bug
| (ReferenceError: chosenVisa is not defined) - not encountered
| this issue with any other countries yet but cool app!
| svnsch wrote:
| True, thanks!
| moonchrome wrote:
| Does anyone know a good site where I can compare tax rates for
| freelancers - using a single person business what's my net take
| home at what income ?
|
| Would people be willing in contributing this info for their
| country if I made a calculator for this on GH pages ?
| docdeek wrote:
| Would be happy to contibute to something like that for France,
| though there are a couple of different ways of setting up a
| freelancer business that impact that number here.
| xyzzy_plugh wrote:
| Right, I think that's the problem. Things get complicated so
| I'm not sure there's a single answer. Usually the easiest way
| to do things is to just declare everything as normal
| individual income. Dealing with corporate taxes is a whole
| ball game.
| moonchrome wrote:
| The difference in Croatia can be >20% of gross and it isn't
| much more work than reporting your individual income, the
| only gotcha is shutting down the legal entity takes a very
| long time.
| [deleted]
| mellavora wrote:
| it often isn't so easy. In many jurisdictions, there needs
| to be a system to make sure the proper social taxes are
| paid.
|
| In a 'normal' employment situation these are handled by the
| employer. As a freelancer, no. So the law requires some
| additional structure to make sure these taxes get paid.
|
| If you simply declare your freelancing income as 'normal
| income', you are not paying these taxes, which probably
| makes you guilty of tax fraud.
|
| Also, if you are freelancing, you may be required to charge
| sale tax or VAT or similar. In the EU, you need to be VAT
| registered to collect VAT. As an individual, only certain
| countries allow this, but only if you have a business
| license in that country. Otherwise you need a corporate
| form, or you are commiting tax fraud.
| xyzzy_plugh wrote:
| Just because you take the income personally doesn't mean
| you don't pay taxes or collect VAT. You absolutely do,
| the difference is that after the business is cconducted
| _you_ pay income tax rather than a company paying a
| corporate tax rate. Taxes are paid in one spot, not
| multiple spots. It 's not always the right answer, but it
| is definitely simpler.
| nicbou wrote:
| Here are the numbers for Germany:
| https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/start-a-business-in-german...
| mellavora wrote:
| For US citizens, be really careful with freelancing overseas.
| You will probably need to file US self-employment tax
| statements quarterly, and face some scary penalties if you
| forget.
| bigdollopenergy wrote:
| Important addition I'd like to add here is that you almost
| certainly won't owe any US tax. You just need to file the
| return. AFAIK You get a crazy high deduction and can also
| deduct all your local taxes, so it's almost always 0 or near
| 0 taxes owed. That said it can be expensive to actually
| prepare and file the return, as you need to find a tax
| specialist proficient in Local AND US tax law to prepare it
| for you and they charge higher than normal rates.
|
| Another thing to know is that the US imposes worldwide
| reporting requirements on banking institutions for their US
| citizen customers. This problem is far less severe than it
| initially was, but depending where you go some
| banks/institutions may deny or restrict your access to
| financial products because they don't want to deal with the
| reporting requirements attached to you. Again, it's probably
| fine anywhere in Europe (nowadays anyway), but elsewhere in
| the world it may be extremely difficult to do something as
| simple as get a simple checking account.
| junar wrote:
| Not zero for self-employed folks. Self-employment tax
| (Social Security and Medicare) is unaffected by the Foreign
| Tax Credit or the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. Unless
| you're paying into a foreign social security plan in a
| treaty country, you'll owe that 15.3% tax.
|
| https://brighttax.com/blog/expats-self-employment-tax-
| foreig...
| welder wrote:
| You also need to watch out for "false freelancer" laws in the
| EU, meant to protect workers who should receive full-time
| benefits from the company. It makes freelancing a gray area
| when you have a repeat long-term client.
| moonchrome wrote:
| Yeah that's a useful note, although that's not on EU level,
| I'm in a EU country and the tax authorities are extremely
| vague about this.
|
| I know people who worked like this for a single client for >5
| years, and the only cases I've heard of it being audited is
| when workers actually complained about these schemes denying
| them employee rights (it was never in IT).
|
| And like the other sibling mentioned on international clients
| it's even more vague.
| nivenkos wrote:
| These never apply to international clients AFAIK. At least in
| the UK that's the case.
| vladvasiliu wrote:
| In France, this is usually an issue for the client, because
| the contractor can then ask to be considered as a full-time
| employee [0]. As a freelancer yourself, if you don't involve
| the state, they won't come after you. The idea of the law is
| to protect the employee.
|
| However, speaking of freelancing in France, legally, there
| isn't such a thing. You have to have some form of company.
| There is some paperwork, but all in all it's pretty easy and
| quite fast (by French standards).
|
| Taxes are high, though, so it may not be the best place to
| incorporate. It should also be noted that anything above
| basic social security isn't free nor included in said high
| taxes, so you'll have to pay out of pocket either for a
| complementary insurance or for the hospital if you need it,
| although I think it may be cheaper than in the US.
|
| ---
|
| [0] Some criteria have to be met, but basically if you're
| working full time several years for the same client, you can
| ask to be considered a full-time employee with a full
| employment contract, etc.
| docdeek wrote:
| > It should also be noted that anything above basic social
| security isn't free nor included in said high taxes, so
| you'll have to pay out of pocket either for a complementary
| insurance or for the hospital if you need it, although I
| think it may be cheaper than in the US.
|
| Complementary insurance (mutuelle) isn't all that expensive
| compared to the US. I cover myself and two kids for EUR118
| a month - very reasonable considering I pay very little out
| of pocket for any care or medicine during the year.
| igammarays wrote:
| If your income is high enough to be paying 5 figure taxes,
| check out Nomad Capitalist. They specialize in legal tax
| reduction through global residency.
| q3k wrote:
| > They specialize in legal tax reduction through global
| residency.
|
| Dodging taxes. They specialize in dodging taxes.
| spitfire wrote:
| > Dodging taxes. They specialize in dodging taxes.
|
| Not really. Their Schtick is to move to a different low
| cost of living country and live there.
|
| Preferably several - one for the summer one of the winter
| and another for fall/spring.
|
| It's more radical lifestyle design than "dodging taxes".
| codegeek wrote:
| If it is legal, why is it dodging taxes ? As an individual,
| I want to maximize retaining my hard earned earnings and
| nothing wrong with that in my opinion as long as you do it
| legally.
| truckerbill wrote:
| People really need to start seeing taxes as a good thing.
| mellavora wrote:
| Tax-funded health care saved my brother, when in his
| early 20s a brain anuyrism required north of 100K in
| medical bills-- paid for by the State of MN because he
| didn't have health insurance at the time.
|
| He would have been bankrupt for life without that. Or
| dead.
|
| Tax funded health care has saved my wife's life twice.
| stiltzkin wrote:
| I find it debatable as there are countries with high
| corruption which have bad uses of people taxes.
| pvm3 wrote:
| PwC has a nice overview of individual and corp taxes by
| country. https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/
| carbeewo wrote:
| This site will calculate your take home pay after tax in many
| European capitals: https://freelance.tax
| Tiktaalik wrote:
| surely something is messed up with the "Work Hours Overlap for
| Remote Teams" input field . Incredibly slow and unresponsive.
| drik wrote:
| Start from this page: https://nomadvisa.io/touristvisa
| q-rews wrote:
| I don't think think this is particularly useful and it looks like
| a Nomad List copy.
|
| There are plenty of more comprehensive options for visas (I think
| VisaHQ is one). The website doesn't even mention that some
| countries don't require a visa at all to enter.
|
| I've been using Wikipedia's great "Visa requirements for COUNTRY
| citizens" which will give you a list of countries you can enter
| and for how long. For the rest of the information displayed here
| one can open Wikipedia's page for the country too.
|
| If the intent is to list countries with nomad visas, then list
| them. As it's setup currently you're just asking me to pick a
| country I already know.
| Youden wrote:
| Why are tourist visas listed? Isn't it basically always illegal
| to work on a tourist visa?
| svnsch wrote:
| I address that topic in the FAQ which is linked on the tourist
| visa page. Maybe i'll make it more prominent. Would love to
| hear other thoughts on that.
|
| The note: Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. Generally
| you'll need special visa or permit to enter a country and work
| there. That means, that a tourist visa would not be enough. But
| remote work means that you are not working there, but working
| from there? The problem is, that these clauses or exceptions
| are often not yet defined by the law which makes remote work on
| a tourist visa generally illegal or at least a grey zone. If
| you are not hired by a local company or interfere with local
| business, then remote work on a tourist visa seems to be
| sometimes tolerated (e.g. Thailand -
| https://e27.co/immigration-officers-raid-co-working-space-
| pu...). This is not the case with every country, so if you are
| planning to work remotely on a tourist visa, make sure to
| research specifically for the target country. The solution:
| Check out the special digital nomad visas or research work
| holiday visas. No visa runs needed.
| [deleted]
| dagw wrote:
| _Isn 't it basically always illegal to work on a tourist visa?_
|
| It is also very common. Everybody I know who's done the
| "digital nomad" thing in South East Asia did so on tourist
| visas.
| svnsch wrote:
| Hey HN!
|
| Over the past few months I've been coding my first side project
| (Nuxt Frontend, Django Backend). It's been quite a learning
| experience tumbling down the rabbit hole of web development, as a
| data scientist. Nomad Visa is a database of tourist visas and
| visas suitable for digital nomads, remote workers, founders and
| expats.
|
| More and more countries issue special visas for digital nomads to
| stay in their country for an extended period of time though they
| often come with high income requirements or high fees. Therefore,
| Nomad Visa allows you to compare all types of visas that are
| eligible for remote workers.
|
| Let me know what you think.
| bko wrote:
| I love the site!
|
| Not sure if this is the feedback you were looking for but I
| noticed its a bit slow though. I would look at the GET to
| https://api.visum.so/api/country_data/
|
| It returns all countries data which is slow and uncompressed.
| Either hit it once and keep it in memory so you can switch
| countries easily, or better yet break it up to
| api/country_data/<country> and just send back the info for that
| country
|
| I would also get rid of stripe if you're not using it yet.
| svnsch wrote:
| Yes, great feedback, thx! I really need to adjust the API,
| calls and cache. As this is the first website i have ever
| built, i still have a lot to learn.
| bko wrote:
| This is still pretty good and incredible considering its
| your first site. You have a great design sense and concept.
| The rest you'll get. There's more or less a right way to do
| the eng stuff which you'll figure out.
| weird-eye-issue wrote:
| That endpoint actually is already being properly cached at
| Cloudfront's edge and is compressed so it could be a lot
| worse
|
| edit: Just noticed this gives a Server Error btw:
| https://nomadvisa.io/betteruptime
| huhtenberg wrote:
| In a recent Firefox on Windows there's no text visible. None at
| all. As if its color was set to 'transparent'.
|
| The culprit appears to be "Atkinson-Hyperlegible" in font-
| family. If it is commented out, text becomes visible. The TTF
| [1] is recognized and rendered by Windows Font Viewer just fine
| (though in a dear need of hinting), though I'm not sure if
| Firefox uses Windows native font rendering engine or has its
| own.
|
| [1] https://nomadvisa.io/_nuxt/fonts/Atkinson-Hyperlegible-
| Regul...
| svnsch wrote:
| Oh damn, thx. Found this font on a website of a nuxt-package
| and it's supposed to be a well readable font even for people
| with limited eyesight. Guess not if it's not shown at all...
| Suggestion? Use a regular font or adjust browser-specific?
| huhtenberg wrote:
| It's 6 hours later and the issue is still there.
| jfk13 wrote:
| Doesn't seem like there's any compelling reason to use a
| webfont at all for this; the default sans-serif would be
| fine.
|
| Or you could use a font-family list that includes a few
| specific Windows and Mac fonts that you like, with the
| generic sans-serif as a fallback in case none of them are
| present.
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| Very bad UX. Site is constantly (slowly) reloading on mobile
| and instead of showing the details always somehow brings you
| back to start screen.
|
| It would benefit greatly by using js more sparingly
| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| Huh, something is blocked on my browser (even using incognito
| mode with no ad-blocking extensions) that all I see are empty
| rectangles, the text are all invisible...
| svnsch wrote:
| It should work fine even though the traffic is high currently
| noja wrote:
| Why are tourist visas shown for people who want to work in
| another country?
| neurotrace wrote:
| Depending on the country, you may be able to work remotely
| while on a tourist visa. This is true, for example, in
| Mexico. The tourist visa allows you to stay in the country
| for up to six months and you aren't allowed to work for a
| Mexican company but they have no issues with you working for
| a company in another country.
| ghaff wrote:
| Many times they're actually "temporary visitor" visas or
| something like that. Which, as you say, typically prohibits
| working for a local company, otherwise use local resources,
| etc. But I've attended business events all over the world.
| With just a few exceptions, e.g. China, there's never been
| any question of getting some special visa--which usually
| requires letters of introduction and so forth--to do
| whatever combination of business and pleasure I'm there
| for.
|
| That said, I'll note that e.g. Indonesia 30 day visa-on-
| arrival seems to theoretically be only for non-business
| purposes but when I've gone there's never been any question
| of using anything else.
| svnsch wrote:
| Some tourist visas allow you to stay quite long in a country.
| Of course it's illegal to work in a foreign country on a
| tourist visa. I added a note in the bottom of the filter
| section on remote work with a tourist visa. Maybe make in
| more prominent? The issue is also mentioned in the FAQs.
| noahjk wrote:
| My initial suggestion would be to at least list it below
| work visas - it caught me off guard to see it at the top on
| a website about working :)
|
| I really like the site design, by the way! Did you use
| anything to achieve the consistent look?
| jobigoud wrote:
| Feedback: This looks very interesting but it's unclear what the
| site is really listing. For example I select Germany. How does
| it know whether I need a visa or not to work in Germany, it
| hasn't even asked for my country of origin?
| robk wrote:
| this should have the UK Tech Nation visa.
| https://technation.io/visa/
| moontear wrote:
| I get the intention of the website. I also do like your design.
| I just don't think the information is helpful as it is
| represented right now as others has also commented already.
|
| You are supposed to start by selecting a country. Let's say
| "Australia". Your website tells me: Tourist Visa: Tourist Visa.
| With a general link to https://nomadvisa.io/australia Working
| Holiday Visa: Working Holiday Visa. Besides these two visas the
| whole Australia is filled with information that doesn't concern
| Visas at all, but the country itself.
|
| Either I have not understood what information the website shows
| or the information isn't there. You state I "can compare all
| types of visas" - what comparison can I do by knowing "Tourist
| Visa" and "Working Holiday Visa". Can I compare these somehow
| to different countries?
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| Cool site!
|
| Out of curiosity, where's your personal favorite places to be a
| digital nomad in? Also do you list places with a specific
| digital nomad visa like the new one in Costa Rica which lets
| you stay for an entire year? (Didn't see this yet!)
| jamil7 wrote:
| When looking at United States EB-5 Visa I get "ReferenceError:
| chosenVisa is not defined"
| poutrathor wrote:
| https://nomadvisa.io/france centers the map on the French
| Caribbean rather than the main landmass in Western Europe
| fnord77 wrote:
| error loading spain 4357980.js:1
| ReferenceError: chosenVisa is not defined at
| f.selectedAPIData (f552d2d.js:1) at En.get
| (4357980.js:1) at En.evaluate (4357980.js:1)
| at f.selectedAPIData (4357980.js:1) at
| f.orderedAPIData (f552d2d.js:1)
| Tiktaalik wrote:
| around the topic of "Work Hours Overlap for Remote Teams"
|
| Would be interesting to type in your current town, and then
| generate a list of the other countries (+major cities?) on the
| same time zone or like +/- 1-2 time zones away.
|
| I do think the time zone thing can be crucial.
| Kinrany wrote:
| They recommend NordVPN, which makes me think all their
| recommendations are just ads.
| svnsch wrote:
| It's an affiliate link where i hope to earn a buck to pay at
| least for the server and domain cost, otherwise Nomad Visa is
| free of ads and has no paywall (yet). What do you prefer? :) Is
| NordVPN bad? I only found great reviews. Please share your
| opinion.
| Kinrany wrote:
| I use mullvad, which is also behind Mozilla VPN.
|
| NordVPN spends a ton of money on marketing, but their
| security and customer support are garbage.
|
| For one thing, you can't cancel your subscription easily,
| which is a dark pattern, which is a big no for a company you
| want to trust. First link in DDG for "nordvpn reddit cancel":
| https://www.reddit.com/r/nordvpn/comments/kryt69/can_someone.
| ..
| totololo wrote:
| Monetization is not a crime
| Kinrany wrote:
| Having a website whose whole purpose is to recommend stuff
| and then being paid for recommendations by the sellers is
| both a scam and a common marketing tactic. It's hard to tell
| when this happens. I'm not saying OP is doing this, I'm
| saying it's hard to tell and I'll err on the side of looking
| for better sources.
| fred_is_fred wrote:
| For people who really do this, do you get paid in your home
| country dollars and home country bank account and just not tell
| your employer that you moved?
| ghaff wrote:
| If you decide to become a digital nomad for a year and just
| hope your employer doesn't find out, you'll probably be sorry
| _when_ they do. Have a working vacation somewhere for a month?
| Try to work it out with your manager. I effectively do it all
| the time around conferences.
|
| But actually move? Lots of implications for visas, salary
| adjustments, and whether your company even has employees in a
| given country.
| notJim wrote:
| It should let you put in your country of citizenship so it can
| filter the visas down before showing you visas you can't get.
| wintorez wrote:
| What happened to the Nomad List? Is it still being actively
| updated?
| throwawaysleep wrote:
| I get that everyone should follow the law, but how would they
| ever distinguish you from a tourist unless you blogged about it?
| neither_color wrote:
| I've heard of people in Indonesia(Bali) getting caught because
| they post in public Facebook groups about the work they do,
| like "Hey guys I'm a yoga instructor/web designer/surf
| teacher/English teacher and I'm available for hire!"
| svnsch wrote:
| Thats interesting. I would also find it interesting if they
| distinguished between e.g. yoga instructor/surf teacher since
| they are working locally (sounds pretty illegal to me) and
| remote work like web design. Has anyone further info?
| drusepth wrote:
| I don't think "whether you'll be caught or not" is the only
| reason to follow the law.
| dagw wrote:
| One obvious way to 'fuck up' is to do work with or for a local
| company. I've also heard rumors that they sometimes check co-
| working spaces and pick up any 'tourists' that have been
| renting space there for an extended period of time.
|
| But basically as long you work for a foreign company or clients
| and don't draw attention to yourself I doubt they care too
| much.
| digianarchist wrote:
| People do blog about it and encourage others to work as
| "digital nomads".
|
| There was a startup founder on HN circa 2017 that blogged about
| bouncing between Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore.
|
| Working in Singapore on a tourist visa is particularly stupid
| because they will actually enforce their laws.
| jeromegv wrote:
| If you don't plan to stay long, sure, but if you start making
| an interesting life over there, you might be interesting in
| regularizing your situation.
| tekknolagi wrote:
| It looks like sorting by duration is subtly broken, sorting by
| number without considering units (6 months > 5 years, etc)
| [deleted]
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