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Is not a e-visa...it called e-residency and simply is an ID card for use all the estonian services(like: open a company, pay taxes, open a bank account etc...)
by CCing 9y ago
Is not a e-visa...it called e-residency and simply is an ID card for use all the estonian services(like: open a company, pay taxes, open a bank account etc...)
It NOT GIVE a work permit in EU and of course not give a permission to travel in schengeng.
It's simply an ID card. The main difference is that:
- Normally in other EU countries for have an ID card for services, you must live there, while with e-residency you can do have and do all the stuff remotely.
- It's pretty useless, you can google it and see how had a lot of hype, but in real case uses, it's useless (example: yes you can open a company remotely, but if you don't live in estonia, is a mess with taxes...and having an e-residency, doesn't give you a valid visa for live+work there...so often you can't move to estonia to work, even if you have a company opened in estonia)
- jaclaz 9y ago>It's pretty useless, you can google it and see how had a lot of hype, but in real case uses, it's useless (example: yes you can open a company remotely, but if you don't live in estonia, is a mess with taxes... Pheew, I thought I was the only one with this opinion, given the hype there is about this thing all over the net. To me the whole stuff seems a lot like the plans of the gnomes in South Park (but in five steps): 1) get an e-residency (please read as "pay us some little money") 2) establish an Estonia company (please read as "pay us some more money") 3) open a bank account in this or that bank (please read as "give our friends a little more money") 4) ? 5) Profit. The only practical use I can see is to create a new sort of Double Irish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement but aimed to the single/poor instead of large corporations, but it has to be seen how the EU will take the idea ...
- StavrosK 9y agoYou definitely aren't the only one with that opinion. If you've visited the card's homepage or tried to register for one, you'll have realized it confers almost no privileges.
- jaclaz 9y agoYep, and - just to get back on topic - they (the good Estonian people) are seemingly (maybe) plainning a government backed ICO: https://medium.com/e-residency-blog/estonia-could-offer-estcoins-to-e-residents-a3a5a5d3c894 https://medium.com/e-residency-blog/estonia-could-offer-estc... Previous (few) comments on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15071682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15071682