6 ms·

The limit to 6 months is pretty disappointing. Also the 1,000,000 ISK monthly salary for workers in the Schengen area is pretty restrictive, except for Switzerl

The limit to 6 months is pretty disappointing. Also the 1,000,000 ISK monthly salary for workers in the Schengen area is pretty restrictive, except for Switzerland, Norway, not that many people earn that level of salary.

itslennysfault 3y ago
You can stay 90 days on a visitor visa and just leave for a weekend every 90 days and start the clock over. When I was on my last stint as a "digital nomad" I did this a couple times over in a couple different countries. There really isn't any way to get "caught". Your host country doesn't care because you're importing money and spending it there. The country where you have your job doesn't care because you're still paying income tax there. Only catch is you have to keep a residency in your country of origin. Also, of course, your employer needs to be cool with it, but truthfully if you're remote anyways they can't really tell where you live as long as you're online during the expected hours. Although for me I thought it better to be honest/transparent. All of the above assumes US country of origin, but I'm sure it'd work the same with many countries.
- matthews2 3y ago
  > You can stay 90 days on a visitor visa and just leave for a weekend every 90 days and start the clock over. In what country is this the case? For countries in the Schengen area, the rule is 90 days out of any 180 day period.
  - Aachen 3y ago
    Greenland is the closest if you don't care to find citilization but just want to cross the border, but maybe that counts as Denmark?
    - runarberg 3y ago
      > Greenland and the Faroe Islands are not included in the Schengen Area. However, persons travelling between the Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Schengen Area are not subject to border checks.[29] The list of countries whose citizens require a visa for Greenland or the Faroe Islands is the same as for the Schengen Area,[30][31] but a Schengen visa will not allow the holder access to either territory, only a Danish visa stamped with either "Valid for the Faroe Islands" or "Valid for Greenland", or both.[32] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#cite_note-38 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#cite_note-38
- Aachen 3y ago
  > just leave for a weekend every 90 days and start the clock over. Regularly leaving an island ~500km away from the nearest city (where you might go through immigration and get your passport stamped or however they check this) is more involved than the usual "just do a day trip to the neighbors" situation. Not impossible but a cost to factor in. In my quest to not fly whenever reasonably possible, I looked at ferry options to Iceland and I don't remember the results but the short of it is that we flew.

itslennysfault 3y ago

You can stay 90 days on a visitor visa and just leave for a weekend every 90 days and start the clock over. When I was on my last stint as a "digital nomad" I did this a couple times over in a couple different countries. There really isn't any way to get "caught". Your host country doesn't care because you're importing money and spending it there. The country where you have your job doesn't care because you're still paying income tax there. Only catch is you have to keep a residency in your country of origin. Also, of course, your employer needs to be cool with it, but truthfully if you're remote anyways they can't really tell where you live as long as you're online during the expected hours. Although for me I thought it better to be honest/transparent. All of the above assumes US country of origin, but I'm sure it'd work the same with many countries.

matthews2 3y ago
> You can stay 90 days on a visitor visa and just leave for a weekend every 90 days and start the clock over. In what country is this the case? For countries in the Schengen area, the rule is 90 days out of any 180 day period.
- Aachen 3y ago
  Greenland is the closest if you don't care to find citilization but just want to cross the border, but maybe that counts as Denmark?
  - runarberg 3y ago
    > Greenland and the Faroe Islands are not included in the Schengen Area. However, persons travelling between the Faroe Islands, Greenland and the Schengen Area are not subject to border checks.[29] The list of countries whose citizens require a visa for Greenland or the Faroe Islands is the same as for the Schengen Area,[30][31] but a Schengen visa will not allow the holder access to either territory, only a Danish visa stamped with either "Valid for the Faroe Islands" or "Valid for Greenland", or both.[32] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#cite_note-38 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#cite_note-38
Aachen 3y ago
> just leave for a weekend every 90 days and start the clock over. Regularly leaving an island ~500km away from the nearest city (where you might go through immigration and get your passport stamped or however they check this) is more involved than the usual "just do a day trip to the neighbors" situation. Not impossible but a cost to factor in. In my quest to not fly whenever reasonably possible, I looked at ferry options to Iceland and I don't remember the results but the short of it is that we flew.