One of the most overlooked tips for remote workers: Your company's current policy isn't the final word on where you can work. Policies change when employees make compelling cases for exceptions. 78 countries have visa programs specifically designed for remote workers employed by foreign companies. The legal infrastructure exists. Your income qualifies. The only barrier is your employer saying yes. And employers say yes more often than you think - when presented with the right case. Not "Can I maybe possibly work from Portugal?" But "Here's the visa I qualify for, here's how I'll handle time zones, here's why this doesn't create legal or tax complications for the company, here's how my productivity will remain consistent, and here's my transition plan." That's not asking permission. That's presenting a proposal. Most people never get to that conversation because they assume the answer is no and don't ask. But HR policies exist to manage the majority. They're not designed for individual negotiations. If you're a valued employee with a solid track record, you have leverage. Use it. The worst they can say is no. Then you decide if you want to find a different remote job that allows it. But you might be one conversation away from taking your current job abroad. Link in bio for help building the case to present to your employer. 🆘🇺🇸 #creatorsearchinsights
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Your W2 job can be the remote income that you use to move abroad. Here's the thing, is it used to be illegal to use your American-based company income to move abroad. But that's all before COVID. As long as you are moving to that country and not taking jobs away from the locals, this is how you can move your job abroad and not be in any sort of compliance issues. I currently have 78 countries in my database that allow you to use your American-based job that you're working remote for to live in that country. And here's the thing, once you go to your company and you show them, listen, this is the digital nomad visa that I'm going to use to go move to this specific country. And you show them that it's totally within compliance for that country. It's just their rule. They're telling you you can't move abroad because they're rule. But if this government over here says it's okay and the American government says it's fine, then their rule can be overwritten if you can show them that it's totally fine. Your in-tax compliance because you continue to file taxes in the United States. And I won't say all but most of the digital nomad visas that allow you to come there and take your W2 job over there, you are not a tax resident for some period of time. Sometimes one year, sometimes up to three years, you're not a tax resident there. And so therefore you can literally just plop down in a new country with that job that you already have. All you have to do is make sure that the company becomes okay with it. So if you're already a remote worker and you're just feeling like the only thing standing between you and a beach across the world is your one manager saying that they don't allow it. This is a conversation that you can absolutely have and take that proof from the visa that you're going to be using that says as long as the company is based outside of that country, which it is, then it's totally fine. There used to be regulations, a grant them that. They are thinking in the old way, the pre-COVID way, where it's like, no, you could only be based in that country if your company had some sort of office there or establish themselves in that country. That used to be true. It's just not true anymore. That's antiquated thinking. And if you are a remote worker, there are so many ways. 78, 10 fact, 78 different countries that you can move to with that W2 remote job. And I can show you the way. Book an exit plan consultation and we can get you set up with the country that's going to be great for you. So that you can take the proper information back to your HR department or your manager or the CEO and get them to approve you going to move abroad with that job.
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