No, you can’t just use tourist visas to roam around the world and work remotely. The bad advice on TikTok just keeps on coming. Digital nomads are advising clueless Americans to follow their lead and break laws internationally. Just because you can work from your laptop does not give you the legal right to do so within the borders of another country. Of course, I recognize that people do this all the time. But, bragging about and announcing your illegal activities on social media is beyond stupid. Plus, trying to convince other people to follow your criminal advice is only going to call attention to remote workers in a negative way. Digital nomad visas exist for a reason. Apply for the proper entry visas and do things by the book if you want to live your life of location independence. 🆘🇺🇸 #creatorsearchinsights
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Oh my gosh. It has come to my attention that there are digital nomads on this app giving you totally illegal advice. Now, the thing is, we all know that there are people who use tourist visas to jump around the world and work remotely. And they do that sort of under the radar. It's sort of saying the quiet part out loud if they announce on the internet that they are using a tourist visa. And working while they're in that country. But it takes it to a whole mother level when they're advising other people to do it. And so confidently, they're out here saying, oh, you can just go on this tourist visa and work remotely because it's an American based company. It has nothing to do with this country. Girl, you know that a tourist visa has regulations that you have to follow in these countries. And almost always. And in particular, the country she was talking about, which was Sri Lanka, it's illegal girl. It is illegal to work on a tourist visa and dumb as hell to advise the internet at large to follow that advice. The reason digital nomad visas exist is because the government is issuing you explicit permission to work remotely. Now, am I a dumb dumb and think that nobody else is working on tourist visas? Absolutely not. Of course, there are people who are doing that. But shut your mouth. Don't announce your illegal activities on the internet. That's a surefire way to get kicked out of the country. So please be cautious, anyone who's listening to advice on the internet about things that are blatantly illegal. Just because you're doing it does not make it less illegal, just FYI. One of the main reasons people hire me is to help them figure out which digital nomad visas they qualify for around the world. Because having remote income isn't enough. It definitely matters how much remote income you have and what the source of the remote income is. Some visas absolutely require you to be employed by a larger entity and getting a steady paycheck. Some absolutely require you to be a freelancer and have different contracts individually and be your own boss. The kind of visa and the amount of money you need to earn actually matters on where you are qualified to live. I promise you, as an American who has lived abroad for the last five years, it makes us all look bad. When you're not just doing illegal stuff, you're advising other Americans to go do illegal stuff in these other countries. We do not want you to do that not because we're trying to control you because it makes us all look bad. Please do not do that and do not advise others to do that.
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