Digital Nomad Thread

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Interested to know if any OCUK forum users are or have been digital nomads in recent years.

If so, what were the first steps you took? In how many destinations did you work and for how long?

 

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@PaulM thanks for the response and sorry you're unable to continue the digital nomad journey.

I am married. We both work together, running our limited company consultancy. It's all computer work and in-person meetings/site visits are rare. Most meetings are held online.

Did you work for an employer or through your own company?

 

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I worked through my own company, the first time I did it I wasn't paying myself a fixed amount so had to prove the solo company income was above the country nomad requirement for the previous 12 months. It was a bit of a hassle, the second time I set the company up to pay me a fixed monthly salary which was much easier for them to verify as the overall 'company' income fluctuated quite a lot for what I was doing.

Our accountant set up our payslips so that side of things should be good. Thanks for the heads up, I'll check our payslips against destination country requirements.

Do you plan on getting individual nomad visas for you and your wife or one nomad visa and a partner visa? Some of the couples I spoke to while doing it said it was significantly easier to just get two separate solo nomad visas

This is very interesting. I don't know enough about either option to have a preference but I'll bear that in mind regarding two solo visas.

I'll be speaking to our accountant again soon to see how the tax side of things works - operating remotely but having a UK limited company. If there's a negligible difference between overall tax expenses then I can see us going ahead.