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11 Countries With Digital Nomad Visas That Lead to Citizenship
Fantastic opportunities for anyone interested in transitioning their remote work into a new beginning.
Digital nomad visas offer remote workers a great opportunity to work overseas and even test the waters to see whether they might want to live in a given country long-term.
Many of these digital nomad visas are valid for one- to two-year stints and may allow you to renew them. After the renewal, you’re forced to either move on or transition to a different visa.
While this does provide a basic level of flexibility, it doesn’t always help if you choose to live in the new country and also gain residency and citizenship. Aside from buying a residence through massive real estate investments and government donations (they won’t call it a bribe, but that’s basically what it is), you typically have to wait anywhere from five to twenty years before you can file the necessary paperwork and apply for citizenship.
If you’ve already lived in a country for a handful of years on a digital nomad visa, it would be helpful to know whether those years count towards that threshold. Most of the time, it doesn’t. You had what amounted to a special temporary work visa, and upon its expiration, you had to leave.
