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🇨🇷 Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s remote-worker stay is designed for foreign remote income, initially for one year with a possible additional year. Its financial, dependant, insurance and Spanish-document requirements differ from tourist entry and from pension-based residence.
4 document categories · 5 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-05
🇲🇽 Mexico
Mexico’s temporary-residence economic-solvency route has a consular visa stage and a separate INM residence-card exchange after entry. This guide uses the San Diego 2026 financial checklist as a named example; other consulates can require different amounts and evidence.
4 document categories · 6 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-05
🇵🇹 Portugal
Portugal's remote-work residence route is for employees and independent professionals working for people or organisations outside Portugal. A qualifying residence visa is followed by an AIMA residence-permit application.
3 document categories · 4 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-04
🇪🇸 Spain
Spain's international telework permission covers qualified adult third-country nationals performing fully remote work for foreign businesses. Applicants need a recognised qualification or at least three years' relevant experience, established foreign work relationships, sufficient employment income and compliant health/social-security cover.
3 document categories · 5 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-04
🇹🇭 Thailand
Thailand’s DTV has a workcation category for remote workers and freelancers, with separate family documentation. The Washington DC embassy lists five-year visa validity; that is not permission for an uninterrupted five-year stay or unrestricted Thai employment.
6 document categories · 5 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-05
🇩🇪 Germany
German citizenship can pass through a German legal parent, subject to the law and family history at each birth. Recognition of existing citizenship, a section 5 declaration and restoration are different procedures. Start with the responsible German mission’s questionnaire rather than treating a German ancestor as automatic eligibility.
3 document categories · 5 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-05
🇮🇪 Ireland
Foreign Births Registration can establish Irish citizenship for qualifying people born abroad with an Irish-born grandparent or a parent who was Irish when they were born. A passport is a separate later application. A parent born in Ireland may instead establish existing citizenship; confirm the correct route before paying.
4 document categories · 5 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-05
🇮🇹 Italy
Italian citizenship by descent is subject to the 2025 changes to Law 91/1992 and the applicable exceptions. A distant Italian ancestor alone does not establish eligibility. This guide covers the current San Francisco consular checklist and helps organise evidence for the authority’s decision.
4 document categories · 5 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-05
🇵🇹 Portugal
A residence-visa route for people supported by retirement income or qualifying income from property, intellectual or financial assets. The visa application and the later residence-permit process are distinct.
3 document categories · 4 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-04
🇪🇸 Spain
Spain's non-lucrative residence route allows financially self-sufficient applicants to live in Spain without employment or professional activity. Remote work is not permitted under this route. The ministry's means requirement increases for accompanying relatives.
3 document categories · 5 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-04
🇹🇭 Thailand
Thailand’s O-A long-stay route is for applicants aged at least 50 who meet its residence, financial, criminal-record, medical and insurance conditions. The Washington embassy lists one-year visa validity and a one-year stay. Employment of any kind is prohibited.
5 document categories · 5 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-05
🇩🇪 Germany
The Opportunity Card supports a qualified job search in Germany for up to one year. Recognised skilled workers and the points route have different qualification and language conditions. It is not a job offer, permanent residence or general freelance permission.
4 document categories · 5 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-05
🇳🇱 Netherlands
The Dutch-American Friendship Treaty is a self-employment residence path for US nationals meeting the treaty and general conditions. IND distinguishes it from ordinary points-tested self-employment and start-up permission. Ownership of a company alone does not establish residence or unrestricted employment rights.
4 document categories · 6 source-linked steps
Review due 2026-11-05
Employment, study, family, self-employment, working holidays and existing citizenship rights need different evidence. The workspace has separate planning questions for each purpose. A paid country guide is offered only when its instructions and programme record have current source coverage.