More Countries Are Now Offering Visas For Digital Nomads
More and more countries are now offering visas for so-called digital nomads who can do their work online from anywhere using a computer.The idea behind it: The state coffers and the domestic economy support, without running the risk that the newcomers snatch jobs from their own people.A win-win situation: In the best case scenario, the employee wins a job under the Caribbean sun and can use his ongoing - hopefully generous - salary to make a good life where the cost of living is perhaps even cheaper.True to the motto: work where others go on vacation.The corona pandemic makes it possible. As the US broadcaster CNBC writes, citing a study by Stanford University, over 40 percent of Americans currently work at home due to corona. It is uncertain when they will be allowed to return to their company. Facebook wants to maintain the status quo until the middle of the next few years, Twitter doesn't want to see its employees again in the offices at all. The advantages are obvious: companies save office rents, can downsize in this way or silver out large properties entirely.
The companies let their employees go, can save and pandemic-ridden states have a new source of money to compensate for the lost income due to the absence of tourists. Anguilla, an island paradise in the eastern Caribbean that normal tourists have not been allowed to visit since March, has been accepting applications from professionals who want to escape the winter in these latitudes since August 21.
The only condition: Those interested must come from countries with an infection rate below 0.2 percent and their stay must be for longer. A visa for less than three months costs $ 1,000 for a single person, and a family of four is welcomed at the preferential price of $ 1,500 - after all, there are four eaters who support the economy with all their daily expenses. This includes a work permit and two Covid-19 tests during a long-term stay. According to CNBC, applications are straightforward and processing times are short.