In exciting news for digital nomads and remote workers, the Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has approved a digital nomad visa to allow foreign workers to work remotely from the Philippines on Thursday, 24 April, 2025. This is part of broader plans to...
We have long bemoaned the lack of a visa for those who want to travel down under. While we are still waiting for Australia to relax its infamously tough (and expensive) visa rules, New Zealand is taking the lead. The New Zealand government announced on January 27,...
As the end of the year approaches, EY Global Limited has launched its EY 2024 Mobility Reimagined Survey, which reviews the visas available to digital nomads and remote workers. As part of this piece of work, EY has published an interactive map, which highlights the...
In the first week of November 2024, the digital nomad initiative Hoppin Jeju hosted the Jeju Workation and Global Digital Nomads gathering on Jeju Island. This is an independent province off the south coast of the Korean Peninsula, which includes the country’s largest...
Kazakhstan has traditionally been a nomadic country, with pastoral nomads moving across the country’s 2.7 million square kilometers (the 9th largest country in the world) and living full-time in dome-shaped yurts. Therefore, it seems fitting that Kazakhstan should...
Kenya is the latest country to launch a digital nomad visa to attract more remote workers to spend their internationally earned income in the Kenyan government. This makes Kenya one of the few African countries offering digital nomad visas. It is already one of the...
As of April 1, 2024, applications have been open for Japan’s new digital nomad visa. Following in the footsteps of several other Asian countries, this visa allows foreigners who work outside of Japan to stay for up to six months, provided they meet the minimum income...
Over the last four years, more than 65 countries have launched digital nomad visas allowing remote workers in one country to continue working for their employer while living in another country. Many remote workers have taken advantage of this opportunity to explore...
Taiwan is the latest country to announce that it will offer a digital nomad visa that allows remote workers to live in Taiwan while working for a foreign company for up to six months. We don’t have many details about the visa yet, but the National Development Council...
In recent weeks Thailand has announced several new visa initiatives that will make it easier for both digital nomads and tourists to visit the country for an extended period. Officially approved by the Thai cabinet on 28 May 2024, we are checking the news daily for...
