Ep. 3241 - Q&A: “Is remote-worker visa consulting a real business?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Remote-worker visas are booming—and bewildering. Today we price a “visa concierge,” unpack simple liability safeguards, and gauge whether the market can pay more than pocket change.
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| 0:52.9 | Since 2020, more than 60 countries from Portugal to United Arab Emirates, many others have launched digital nomad visas. |
| 1:06.0 | And basically, they're inviting digital nomads, people who have skills that are transferable or can work remotely to move and set up shop in their country and typically pay taxes or otherwise invest in real estate or do something that makes it worthwhile for the country. |
| 1:21.1 | And all these countries promise easy residency, but there's a great variance in what that looks like and the amount of wealth you need to have to be able to, you know, get one of these digital nomad visas. |
| 1:32.1 | And so there's lots of loopholes and shortcuts and hacks, you know, as part of this process. |
| 1:36.8 | Just because whenever there's bureaucracy, that's what happens. |
| 1:39.9 | Remote worker visas are booming and bewildering. |
| 1:43.0 | So we're going to hear today, this guy who is |
| 1:46.2 | Swedish, I believe, moves to Portugal. He becomes like the friend in the know. He's the one who |
| 1:51.6 | knows stuff and he wants to help advise other people on the process. So will clients actually |
| 1:57.7 | pay for this? Well, some will, of course. So how do you find those clients? How do you |
| 2:01.0 | protect yourself? If there's some change in the law or maybe some other legal issue? And whether also |
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