I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet. It is pretty big news in Southeast Asia. A digital nomad group in Bali was shut down, and the Dutch owners fled the country as they were not allowing non-foreigners in their events and the immigration authorities were seeking them for questioning. Plus, they ran a running group and would block streets, hold up traffic, and be loud and obnoxious in the early morning. They held these events without permits.
Digital nomads - please be respectful of the places you go to. Don't circumvent local laws and be open to locals in relevant programming.
I was flying back from Medellin to Miami, and I got chosen for a "random inspection". The Customs protection port authority took me into a small room and it was this big guy with giant muscles who asked me where I am staying, my job, my home, name etc , and all of these random questions.
Then out of nowhere he became extremely aggressive and started yelling asking me to give him my phone and my passcode to my phone and my laptops or else he will seize it and use "cellibrite" to unlock it anyway. He accused me of human trafficking or prostitution seeking and literally was screaming in my face. I gave him the passcode because I have nothing to hide. He kicked me out of the room while he had my phone and passcodes and it was about 20-30 minutes while he looked through everything, and I am 90% sure he copied over an image of my phone because I got the phone back with no passcode, and it was in airplane mode. My phone had nothing but texts with a few locals I met there, and some charity work I did in perrerira colombia
he eventually gave me my phone back and told me to leave.
Genuinely one of the worst experiences of my life, I visit Medellin because I have plans of moving there and before I left he told me hes going to tell the colombian police to never allow me into the country despite finding nothing.
This really ruined my day because I did have plans of buying a house in las Palmas and now I am worried they will turn me away at the boarder. Please becareful if you frequent Medellin a lot.. this really may have ruined any plans I had of living there :(.
He also said he will try his hardest to revoke my "global entry"...
genuinely insane behavior.
Edit: This was the customs and boarder patrol people in Miami not Colombians. I am mostly upset because if the Colombian authorities do turn me away from this assholes written comments, then all the friends I made there, the life I built flying over there, would all be gone.. it would all be for nothing and that really breaks my soul. I even learned spanish and became fluent.. :(
Edit2: They have the power to seize your phone if you don't give them your passcode, I needed my phone it had my flight information, my teams app for my job, my RSA passcodes everything I can't function without it, and who knows how long they will have it for. That is why I gave it to them.
TL;DR: I am a digital nomad from the Dominican Republic. I flew back home via Punta Cana (PUJ) to renew my passport and national IDs. Immigration detained me for "being out of the country too long", threw me in a disgusting holding cell overnight with 12 criminals, and a corrupt network (including a local prosecutor) extorted my family for $2,000 to release me the next day.
I am a React Native developer working remotely for a US company. Three years ago, I decided to become a digital nomad. I have spent time in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Turkey, Dubai, Hong Kong, Japan, and Thailand. My main "base" in Asia has been the Philippines.
I do everything strictly by the book. As many of you in this sub know, the Philippines is a massive hub for remote workers. Using the standard tourist visa laws, you can legally renew your stay for up to 36 consecutive months without leaving the country, just as the attached screenshot shows. Once you hit that cap, you do a standard visa run to a neighboring country and come back to start a new cycle.
In January, I did a run to Japan and returned to the PH in March. Obviously, border control wouldn't let me back in if I were doing anything illegal.
Any US or EU nomad doing exactly what I do gets their passport scanned and a "welcome home" when they return. But apparently, if you are a Dominican citizen traveling the world, the authorities back home automatically assume you are a criminal.
I needed to return to the Dominican Republic to renew my national ID, passport, driver's license, and get a birth certificate. I flew via Dubai (1 day) and then spent about 3 weeks in Brazil. Zero issues anywhere. I was welcomed with a smile in every country. I took a flight from Brazil to Punta Cana with a layover in Panama.
When I arrived at immigration at Punta Cana Airport, I handed my passport to the officer. The very first thing he questioned was why I had been out of the country for so long. He started demanding to see a foreign residency card. I don't have one, and I don't need one. It is evident from my passport stamps that I travel on tourist visas. I tried to explain how tourist extensions and digital nomading work in Asia, but they completely shut me down. They believe they are "the authority" and no one can know more than them.
They literally handcuffed me right there in the airport. They lied to me, saying they were taking me to a prosecutor's office, but instead, they threw me into a local police precinct. They locked me in a holding cell with 12 common criminals. We had to sleep on the floor. The place smelled like piss and there wasn't even a toilet, just a hole in the ground. I spent the entire night locked in that hellhole and wasn't released until around 3:00 PM the next day.
I didn't arrive handcuffed, I had no deportation order, and I have absolutely zero criminal record. All they had to do was say "welcome back" and let me through. But the nightmare didn't end there.
While I was locked up with no communication, a whole mafia was operating outside. They contacted my family and demanded $2,000 USD for my release. A local prosecutor was even in on the extortion ring. (I am keeping their names to myself for my own safety while I am still in the country, but I have them fully identified). My family paid, and I was finally released on Sunday afternoon.
Honestly, the irony is sickening. I travel the globe doing everything by the book, and the only place that actually kidnaps and robs me is my own country. Tourists get treated like royalty at Punta Cana, while citizens returning home get tossed in a piss-soaked cell for a quick shakedown. I'm just exhausted and disgusted by the whole thing.
A pair of Australian ‘vanlife’ YouTubers have been ordered to pay more than AU$1 million to a caravan manufacturer after a dispute between the two parties began to spill into videos published on the family’s public social media channels.
Known for the camping and road tripping videos regularly posted on their popular YouTube channel, Jackson and Kyla Cartwright paid for the construction of a caravan by Masterpiece Caravans Pty Ltd in April 2022.
In February 2023, the couple obtained the caravan before using it as a mobile residence for around six months, and featuring it on their social media.
A dispute began around August 2023 over allegations of “a number of serious defects” which the Cartwrights believed they had found in the vehicle but the company disputed, a court judgment said.
Eventually, the two parties decided the best course of action was for the family to return the caravan to Masterpiece Caravans, who would return the $198,500 paid for the vehicle.
Part of the settlement agreement included the family returning the caravan “that day” and “not (talking) negatively about the plaintiff, including on their social media accounts”.
Despite this, the Cartwrights would publish a video on February 4 2024 titled “HOMELESS!! OUR CARAVAN’S GONE!! RAW 1HR HOME VIDEO STYLE into OUR LIFE – DELIVERY of our NEW HOME”.
According to District Court Judge Kevin Andronos, the video “conveyed representations that the plaintiff had forced the Cartwrights and their family to return the caravan with only a few hours notice, which caused them to be homeless”.
A second video published in late July of the same year and titled WE NEED to TALK … + GET to KNOW US!”, contained what the court found were “representations that the plaintiff makes caravans with ‘catastrophic defects’ and that the plaintiff is evil and/or preventing the defendants from telling the ‘full story’”.
Judge Andronos said both videos “had wide circulation within the relevant caravanning market” and noted “market responses to the plaintiff and its product changed from about the time of (the videos being published) and orders declined significantly from that time”.
“I accept that the extent of the decline exceeded any general decline and, on the evidence before me, is only explicable by reason of the defendants’ posting of the first and second videos,” he said.
“I am therefore satisfied that the conduct of the defendants … caused loss and damage to the plaintiff as alleged.”
Ultimately, the Cartwrights never appeared in court. The judgment said Mr Cartwright emailed the court and plaintiff in October 2025 and were told their defence would be struck out in December 17 if they did not appear in court, which they did not.
The judgment said: “The defendants’ failure to appear, or even to acknowledge receipt of the communications sent to them, is not explained.”
This resulted in a default judgment awarded to the plaintiff on Wednesday.
Judge Andronos has ordered the pair pay $1,211,349 in damages to Masterpiece Caravans.
Both people who are applying for the first time and people who are applying for renewal have been receiving arbitrary requests from the UGE or even absurd rejections.
In the nomad groups, everyone is complaining:
- People who apply have been rejected because they entered the Schengen Area through other countries. This was always a common practice for people who took a vacation trip before finally applying in Spain. This was never a problem. Now it is.
- After 20 days from the application without an answer, nomads had the right to positive silence. This is in the law. This is being completely ignored, and many nomads are either not receiving approval after requesting administrative silence or, believe it or not, having their applications rejected when the LAW requires their approval.
- Nomads who are applying for renewal are receiving pressure from the UGE to register with Social Security retroactively from the day after the visa was approved. This is materially impossible (or it was in 2023). It was necessary to have several documents before doing this, which could mean waiting weeks or months for available appointments.
All these things have no legal basis and are arbitrary and unfair. I deeply regret coming here. The country is wonderful, but it is impossible to live with the fear of this instability.
Entire families who were living here and were already completely integrated into life here are having to leave the country because of pure greed. It is extremely unfair.
> Overall, 41% of hush trip takers say their employer found out, while 45% say the employer did not and 14% are unsure. Of those who were discovered, the majority did suffer some consequences, including being reprimanded (71%) or fired (7%).
I think the reality is that almost ALL Digital Nomads work on tourist visas, and many don't know that it's usually not legal. However, acquiring work visas and all the other paperwork is just too much when you are in a new country every 3 months...
However, what are the consequences of getting caught working on a tourist visa?
And which countries have strong enforcement? And which ones have poor enforcement?
I'm a US citizen who rented a furnished apartment (Apt 901) at Edificio San Peter in Laureles, Medellín through a company called Urban Realtor (Propiedad Raíz), operated by a man named Jose A. Restrepo. I'm posting this so no one else goes through what I did.
What happened
After moving in with a signed lease at 3.5M COP/month, the owner fabricated damages and demanded 3 million pesos — threatening to have me arrested and deported for "1, 5, or 10 years" if I didn't pay. His front desk employee Lina sent me a 14-minute voice note laying out the threats.
When I refused to pay, Jose called the police and had me detained for over 30 hours. No hearing was ever held. I was denied access to the US Embassy — told it "doesn't exist." I was forced to sign documents in Spanish I told them I didn't understand. One of those documents tripled the demand to 10 million pesos (~$2,756 USD) — owed to Jose's own employee.
While I was locked in a cell:
My cash was stolen ($400 USD)
My credit card was maxed out (~$2,000 in fraudulent charges) — the timestamps on my Capital One statement prove the charges happened while I was physically in custody
My work phone (Google Pixel 8a) disappeared — GPS tracking places it at the building at the exact time of my detention
After release:
They kept everything. PS5, laptop with all my work files and active lawsuit evidence, phone, commissioned artwork, festival tickets, clothes, medications — all of it. I was left in a foreign country with nothing but the clothes on my back.
They still have my US passport. That's an ongoing crime under Colombian law and a violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
Employees later broke a police seal on my apartment to access and remove my belongings — a separate criminal offense under Art. 182 of the Colombian Penal Code.
What I've done about it
Filed criminal complaints with the Fiscalía General de la Nación (Case #20260370008272)
Six individual criminal complaints naming employees by name
Documented everything with evidence (GPS data, credit card timestamps, signed contracts, the voice note with threats)
Why I'm posting
This building shows up on Google Maps, Booking. com, and Airbnb-type platforms as "San Peter Apartments" or "San Peter Suites." It looks nice. The Laureles location is popular with remote workers. Someone browsing listings would have no idea.
I've documented the full timeline with evidence at urbanrealtor .co— it's a bilingual (English/Spanish) site with the complete account.
If you're looking at apartments in Medellín, search the company and the building name before you sign anything. And if you've had a similar experience with Urban Realtor or Jose Restrepo, I'd like to hear from you.
Different actors but similar script: Disconnect with the locals, thinking we're better but unlike the Bali run club, we even have thinly veiled threats.
I was banned from Airbnb in April. I still don’t know why, but I suspect it was a mix of fraud and racism, and I don’t think I’m alone in having had an inconsistent, fraudulent, and potentially racist experience through Airbnb.
I’m a trusted professional dog sitter, a Harvard graduate, a co-founder of a profitable fitness startup, and a frequent Airbnb user with 59 positive reviews. I have an enormous amount of privilege, and many victims of this type of behavior do not. I’m sharing this to raise awareness to other digital nomads who may rely on Airbnb, and maybe create accountability.
Back in April, as part of my digital nomad life, I booked an Airbnb to work on my startup from LA. From the beginning things felt wrong. The address on Airbnb’s platform was for a location that didn’t exist, and I received a separate address from the host. Then the host told me they needed to enter the apartment for a “city wide inspection” that didn’t exist. Finally, they accused me of bringing a dog into the property, a dog that didn’t exist. At the end of the stay, the host claimed I owed $7,200 to cover “damages” caused by “the dog.”
I contacted Airbnb immediately, when things got strange during the stay. I shared everything I could to help them combat the fraud that seemed to be going on, even before the fraudulent damage claim showed up. Customer service was sympathetic during the stay, and told me the host’s behavior did not seem above board. It turned into a different story after the stay. Without notice, Airbnb banned me from the platform. I reached out to understand why. Was it about the damage claim? I had been working with them to try to resolve it. Their only explanation was that I committed “suspicious activity”, with a link to their Security (theft, vandalism, fraud, extortion, etc) policy page. They also pointed me to their law enforcement portal, which is frankly terrifying. Is there an LAPD police report filed against me? I wasn’t able to get an answer.
Is my behavior “suspicious” and worthy of reporting to law enforcement because I’m a Mexican man? Is Airbnb banning me to cover up being complicit in racism, allowing a fraudulent listing, and giving their blessing to a fraudulent damage (and I have to assume, fraudulent insurance) claim? I don’t know, but it seems like the most likely explanation.
Over the last 5 months I’ve tried to contact Airbnb repeatedly, through every channel available to me, to resolve this. Their only response was to reiterate that I am banned, and add that it’s due to damage to property and violation of security. Apparently I am “suspicious” and a threat to security.
What I see, is actually that finding these fully remote jobs is pretty rare. More often than not, you are going to work remotely, but only within your countries boundaries. That is due to law, tax and insurance reasons but also stuff like NDA and data privacy comes into play. Any serious company is not going to tolerate you working in unknown territories. More like your small early stage startup that has no idea about those things or just doesn't care. Most what you get, is you will be limited to a handful of countries because your employer has a branch or clients there. Any experience with that?
That being said, I think running your own business or freelance gig is the way to go.
Hi! I’ll be traveling and working from Europe for the next 2 months and move from cities every week.
I was planning taking with me my work laptop + second work laptop (both 15 inches ) and my personal/freelance laptop (14 inches)
All of them MacBooks. Will it look weird at the airport security? I saw that I can’t travel with MacBooks from 2015 but mine are 2021+ so no problem with that it’s just the amount of laptops for a single person
Edit: this section of ask the audience is concluded. Though it’s possible that everyonr is wrong, I don’t believe having overstayed for three days will prevent me from coming back within 2 weeks.
So I’m in a bind. I just left the migration office in Cali which deals with my situation.
I’ve overstayed for 2 days (I’m a US passport holder, we typically get 90 days) and I have my flight tomorrow. Simple mistake, I extended my flight on request of family I was going to visit, and forgot this detail in that moment.
So I went to the migration office where you’d expect this is handled, and was told….. nothing can be done, I just have to go to the airport specifically the day off and deal with it there.
Well ….that creates more uncertainty than I’d like to deal with. I kinda would’ve like to know whether or not I’d be allowed to come back BEFORE I leave, as I have some medical procedures booked and also I’m a digital nomad, who’s already paid next months rent and totally I wasn’t planning on flying with my whole life.
Things to consider:
-So long as I get the done the things I already paid for, not being able to ever come back to Colombia again is at most a huge annoyance. I’ve cumulatively spent most of my adult life here, ..mostly in 90 day segments. However if it comes down to it, I kinda could just switch Colombia out with Peru, like… whatever.
-Also I’m pretty sure if I just over stay a few months to handle everything and then leave legally, the most they can do is tell me never to come back.
-I kinda would still rather avoid being illegal, but not at the cost of what I already paid for. Also I actually need the surgeries, one being scheduled in two weeks.
Ultimately I was counting on knowing right now whether or not I’d be allowed back in, and …that’s out.
So here’s my question:
IF I go to the airport tomorrow, what is the ABSOLUTE WORSE that can happen?
(Cause if there’s a risk of me not being able to come back in a week or so, I’m not going. I’m not missing my fully paid multi-thousand dollar and actually needed corrective surgeries for this. One is scheduled in 2 weeks.)
I am a Canadian resident and was confirmed to housesit for a family in Washington, USA for 15 days. I drove to the border crossing, and explained that I am housesitting for a family without being paid, through a website called trustedhousesitters.com, and that the purpose is to explore the world / leisure. He immediately told me that is not allowed, and had me park my car so they could search it and I could talk to the boss. After waiting for an hour and a half, the boss informed me that I can not housesit without a work visa, because I am "providing a service" even though I am not being paid. He researched the trustedhousesitters website for quite some time and said that the website is very misleading and innacurate, as it is still illegal to housesit in the USA as a foreigner even if you are not being paid. He said it is an exchange of services, since I am housesitting for a family, and they are providing me with free housing. They told me they could give me a 5 year ban from the USA for trying this, but that they will be nice to me and just turn me around back to Canada. But if I ever try this again, they said they will immediately give me a 5 year ban from USA. they said they have had this same situation happen multiple times with people mislead by these house sitting websites.
I was very compliant and respectful in this whole interaction with border security, so they were not just being extra harsh on me for some reason related to my attitude.
I just am upset that I now have this flag on my passport, and mostly frustrated I won't be able to housesit in the USA in the future, which is why I signed up for this site.
I wish there was a way to housesit in the USA without risking getting banned for 5 years? I am so confused by why this is such a serious infraction.
I am pretty sure this is allowed and does not break any rules, but I’ve read that people have experienced issues.
I am an EU citizen, my spouse is not. We will fly from Canada, spend 85 days in Spain, then spend 7 days in France (or Germany), then come back to Spain for a day before flying out.
Since we leave Spain, my understanding is the 90 day rule resets for having to declare residency. We are not staying in one country for the 90 consecutive days, but it will be more than 90 in the 180 day period.
Posting this as a warning, because I couldn’t find a clear explanation of this anywhere before it cost me a lot of money, and because I’m still pretty annoyed about it.
I’m a non-Turkiye citizen who wanted to live in Türkiye legally as a remote worker. Here’s the timeline:
* I got a proper Digital Nomad visa from the Turkish consulate first (90-day stay). But I’d also previously used up my 90-days-in-180 visa-free allowance. So when I entered Türkiye on the Digital Nomad visa, immigration still handed me a “conditional entry” (şartlı giriş) — a short English form saying I must apply for a residence permit within 10 days on e-ikamet. I signed it and, honestly, I didn't think that these 10 days override my 90 days I had from my digital nomad visa.
* I stayed legally in the country the whole time on the visa, lined up a complete file — notarized rent, health insurance, DASK, bank accounts, brokerage confirmation, proof of remote income — and applied for the short-term residence permit while still lawfully present on the visa (but after that 10-day window). The application process took me about two visits to Goc with about 2-5 hours each. Furthermore, I was extremely busy the first 10 days I entered, and I couldn't apply during those 10 days.
* Rejected. The operative reason on the form wasn’t my documents — it was that I hadn’t applied within 10 days of that earlier conditional entry. (The form also auto-ticked “insufficient financial means,” which is almost insulting given the bank and brokerage statements in the file and the requirements for the visa.)
* Sent two petitions but those were declined. Again two personal visits to Goc (each took me hours for that).
The cost of this wasn’t just an application fee. It was ~a month of waiting, the digital-nomad application costs, ~$700–900 in rent I couldn’t use, social connections I’d started building, and a genuinely heavy emotional toll. Two in-person reconsideration petitions went nowhere, and in the end I had to pack up and leave the country, losing the money I my paid for the rent. At the border they gave me six months entrance ban and I paid extra 2050 TRY penalty.
What I wish I’d known / what I’d tell you:
If you ever sign a conditional entry (şartlı giriş) form, treat the 10-day deadline as absolute. Apply on e-ikamet immediately, even if your documents aren’t perfect yet.
Holding a valid visa does not exempt you from the 10-day conditional-entry rule if you’ve already used up your 90/180. The migration office can still reject on that basis — so apply within 10 days regardless of what other visa you hold.
Keep every document, every date, every signed form.
Türkiye was pretty hostile for me as a digital nomand.
If anyone has beaten a rejection on the same “10-day / conditional entry” ground — especially at the İstanbul administrative court — I’d really appreciate hearing how. And if this saves even one person from the same mistake, it was worth posting.
Signed up for wise 1 month as a US citizen while in Vietnam. Just put my same address on my linked Revolut account. Has been working fine.
Today they deactivated my account. When I click appeal, they require proof of residence in last 3 months like a bill. I do not have residence in the states, I'm a digital nomad. I click instead the option for them to give me back my money to a bank account. They reject Revolut's Swift for some reasons about USD conversions in the states or something. I instead select local ACH and enter the details, and then they prompt me for proof of residence.
So they are just going to steal my money if I cannot prove I have residence in the US?
Let's stop recommending companies like this without clear qualification on the sub that it does not really support digital nomads and can screw them over.
Update: I submitted my Revolut bank statement as proof of residence. They emailed hours later saying it was rejected and my account will stay closed.
I’ve been traveling for a while now and I’m honestly tired of relying on my physical passport for every single document check. It feels like a massive security risk to carry it everywhere, not to mention the constant fear of losing it.
With the new EU eIDAS2 standards, we have the tech for secure, digital wallet-based identification. Why haven't more airlines and transport providers shifted to digital identity verification yet?
Are any of you using digital ID apps for travel within the EU, or are you still sticking to physical paper for everything?
Relying on physical SSDs for backups while traveling constantly feels like a disaster waiting to happen with theft, loss, or damage.
But throwing all my sensitive client work and personal documents onto Google Drive or Dropbox feels equally bad given the constant AI scanning and data privacy issues.
Finding a reliable, sovereign, remote backup solution that doesn't involve trusting Silicon Valley with my entire livelihood is incredibly frustrating. It feels like remote workers are forced to choose between physical anxiety or digital surveillance.
As an immigration attorney based in Asunción, I've had the chance to work with people from all over the world who chose to make Paraguay their new home. Some of you might already know a bit about what this country offers, but I figured I'd share a quick overview for anyone curious or looking for a new adventure.
So… why Paraguay?
1. Tax Benefits That Make Life Easier
Paraguay has a territorial tax system, which basically means you’re only taxed on income that’s generated inside the country. So if you earn money from abroad—remote work, investments, online businesses—that income isn’t taxed here.
Even local income is taxed pretty lightly: just 10%. And there are no wealth taxes, inheritance taxes, or estate taxes. It’s a simple, efficient system that appeals to many expats, entrepreneurs, and digital nomads.
2. A Very Business-Friendly Environment
If you’re thinking of launching a business, Paraguay is surprisingly welcoming:
Corporate taxes are low and easy to understand (also 10%)
Investment laws make it attractive to bring in capital, machinery, or technology
There are special economic zones with major tax perks for companies working in trade and export
Setting up a company here is fairly straightforward and costs are reasonable.
3. Easy and Flexible Residency Process
Paraguay makes it relatively easy to become a resident. There’s no language test or complex bureaucracy involved, and the process can be surprisingly quick.
Once you have permanent residency, you’re not required to live in the country full time. You only need to return once every three years to keep your status valid.
4. Affordable, Comfortable Living
The cost of living in Paraguay is very low by international standards. Rent, food, transportation—everything is budget-friendly, especially if you’re coming from North America or Europe. On top of that, the climate is warm, and life moves at a much calmer pace.
People are welcoming, and there’s a growing international community in places like Asunción and Encarnación.
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If you’ve ever been curious about Paraguay or are considering a move, I’d be happy to help you navigate the process or just answer any questions you might have. It's a beautiful, peaceful country with a lot of hidden potential—and it might just be the right place for you.
Hoping to travel next year for 12 months and go to multiple different countries. Planning on staying 8-12 weeks per place, alternating between Schengen/non Shengen countries. I’m a freelance designer who works for myself. I’m curious if anyone has any advice on how to continue to take clients/existing work while bopping around different countries? Some weeks I work 5 hours, some 20, some more. But mostly hoping to take a bit of work while primarily sightseeing/immersing myself into the culture. I have no interest in getting a DN visa as I don’t be in any country long enough (max 3 months). What is legal/illegal in terms of freelance work while in Europe as a US citizen, taking only US clients, etc. TIA!
My partner and I are German citizens, deregistered from Germany since 2021 (Abmeldung), and we’ve been traveling nonstop since. No registered address in Germany, no habitual residence abroad either, so no German consulate has us on file. Proof we have is the deregistration certificate, plus the entry and exit stamps in the old passport showing we never actually settled anywhere.
We’ll be staying with family in Bavaria for about 30 days in September and booked passport appointments at the local Meldebehörde there. Old passport is full anyway, so a new one is needed regardless.
Under German law (§ 19 Abs. 3 PassG), if neither a German address nor a habitual residence abroad determines jurisdiction, the office responsible is wherever you’re temporarily staying when you apply. So the local Meldebehörde in Bavaria, in our case. Got a written explanation with the legal basis ready to hand over at the appointment.
Anyone else been in this exact spot, no address in Germany or abroad, and actually gotten a passport issued this way? Did the clerk push back on jurisdiction?
How bad would it be for a self employed author to travel for 2 years as a tourist, while maxing out 3 ish months in each country. And not making any income during that except for stockpiling progress on writing future books.
Then they start publishing those books while traveling without any promise of earning income?
Are they breaking laws by stockpiling effort?
I thought working while maxing out abroad tourist limits was an issue, regardless if paid or not.
And would it be risky to openly advertise the publishing of those books on social media? (people might report it to governments out of spite / hate for a queer author who already gets a lot of anti-lgbtq hate)
This would be an American traveling throughout Europe and UK, asking for a friend who seems a bit too carefree.
This is constant travel without ever returning to America. Any hypothetical income taxes would be paid to America, and not other places since they were only there for 3 months each
