The advice that could get you deported today is the same advice getting 10 million views on TikTok. You can't sue a TikToker when you get banned from a country for 10 years because you followed their "hack." Digital nomad influencers telling you to work remotely on tourist visas. "Just don't tell immigration!" Cool. Also illegal. Travel bloggers showing you how to do visa runs indefinitely. "Just leave every 90 days!" Countries are cracking down on that. Expat accounts advising you to lie about employment status on visa applications. "Just say you're employed by a company!" Immigration fraud. "Helpful" content about maximizing what you can do on student/work/retirement visas by ignoring the conditions. That's visa violation. This advice goes viral because it sounds like a hack. But it's not clever. It's just illegal activity explained confidently. And the people giving this advice? They're either: A) Breaking laws themselves and haven't been caught yet B) Not actually doing what they're telling you to do C) Wealthy enough that consequences don't matter You're not. And when you follow their advice, you risk deportation, visa bans, and legal consequences they won't experience. What could get you deported today? Following digital nomad advice from people who prioritize content over compliance. Link in bio for legal visa strategies instead of viral illegal ones. 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive
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Here are four pieces of bad, move-or-broad advice that I hear consistently on this app. Number one is nomadic people advising you to just work on your tourist visas. Tourist visas come with restrictions. And as you enter that country, you are green to follow that country's laws, which include not working while you're on a tourist visa. And yes, that means from your laptop, you are not allowed to work within the country borders unless your visa explicitly allows it. Number two is that you should just do visa runs. And that means basically you go up until the day that your visa is going to expire, leave the country, and then come back. Thailand has recently severely cracked down on this, and they recognize that people are using these visa runs to live in their country, and they are not allowing it anymore. And deportations have been on the rise because of this. Number three is to lie about the conditions of your employment. People will do this thing where they will have a W2 employer, but they'll say that they are self-employed, or they will be self-employed, and they'll act like it's an outside company that doesn't have to do with them. And those kinds of lies can get you extremely tripped up with immigration, because those things are different in the eyes of international laws. You cannot be a W2 worker in some countries as you're doing a remote work visa, and you cannot be self-employed in some countries if you're doing a remote work visa. So it's very important to be honest about your employment conditions, and not try to conceal the fact to work around their laws. And number four is not following the conditions of the visa that you enter on. So if you go in on a retirement visa, or a passive income visa, or a student visa for that matter, and you try to get local employment, because you think no one will know, or you try to work remotely, even though that visa prohibits it, those things can get you deported immediately. You have to follow the conditions of your visa. One thing you don't want to do as you're moving abroad is piss off an immigration department, because if you get deported, that will be stamped in your passport. And that is like a scarlet letter for every other government who could potentially give you residency in their country. If they see that you're somebody that overstays their visas and doesn't comply with the laws of those countries, they're not going to be keen to give you the permission to live in their country. So make sure that you are following the laws, and if you need help with that, that's what I do. I help match you with international visa programs so that you can apply for the visa that actually is what you want to do, and go live somewhere without feeling like you're just doing things that are breaking the rules.
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