The latest news to circulate the digital nomad side of the internet is that Kyrgyzstan has launched a new digital nomad visa, allowing remote workers to stay in the country for up to a year in the first instance. While we get excited about every new DNV announcement,...
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Philippines Opening Doors to Digital Nomads in 2025
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...
Digital Nomads Down Under: New Zealand Launches Visa
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,...
EY Global Limited Digital Nomad Visa Index
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...
Jeju Island Set to Become Digital Nomad Hotspot with New Visa
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 Opening Pathways for Digital Nomads: New DN Visa
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 Launches Digital Nomad Visa
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...
Assessing Japan’s New Digital Nomad Visa: Opportunities and Challenges
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...
Hidden Tax Pitfalls of Digital Nomad Visas: What Businesses Need to Know
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 to Launch Digital Nomad Visa
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...