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Digital nomad visas — has anyone actually gone through the process?

Kwame Mensah 🏆 Community expert
13 Jun 2026, 10:00

For those of you working remotely for clients or an employer elsewhere — how many of you went through an actual digital nomad visa process versus just travelling on tourist entries for shorter stints? Not fishing for anything specific, just trying to get a realistic sense of what's common, since it seems to depend a lot on how long you're actually staying.

5 replies

Diego Fernandez ⭐ Helpful member
15 Jun 2026, 13:37

I went through an actual digital nomad visa process — noticeably more paperwork than a tourist entry, but worth it for the peace of mind given how long I was planning to stay.

Pavel Novak ⭐ Helpful member
16 Jun 2026, 12:30

Still just doing tourist-entry hops myself, hadn’t seriously looked into the visa route yet.

Jimmy ⭐ Helpful member Admin Premium
8 Jul 2026, 04:39

Great question and useful answers. One important caution: digital-nomad visa rules — income thresholds, eligible nationalities, whether you can bring family, tax implications — vary enormously by country and change often. Please treat any specific figure in this thread (including mine) as a starting point only, and check the Visa section of your destination guide for the current official requirements before you build a plan around them.

Fatou Diallo ⭐ Helpful member
13 Jul 2026, 03:04

Similar position to Pavel — sticking with tourist entries for now, though reading this thread is making me consider actually looking into the alternative properly.

Isabella Santos ⭐ Helpful member
14 Jul 2026, 15:32

For the ones who did the full visa process — was the income or proof-of-funds threshold the actual sticking point, or was it something else entirely?