AffordWhere Nomad Desk

The Nomad Desk covers the rules that decide whether a digital nomad can legally live and work somewhere: visas, remote-work schemes, and the tax arrangements that come with being based in one country while earning in another. Like the other desks, it is a team, not one person. Nobody here is claiming to have personally applied for every visa we write about. The posts are research summaries drawn from the official guidance that immigration authorities publish.

Visa rules shift often, and the cost of getting them wrong is real. For every active route the desk covers — Portugal D8, Spain's DNV, Germany's Freiberufler, the Netherlands' DAFT, the various Latin American residence routes, and others — we cite the official government page next to our practical summary. Income thresholds, processing times, and fees come from the consular or immigration-authority site and get refreshed when they change.

The desk does not provide immigration legal advice. What it does is explain how a scheme works on paper, call out pitfalls that show up in the official sources, and send readers to a licensed immigration lawyer or their local consulate for anything case-specific. When a programme is suspended or meaningfully changed, we update the post in place and move the "last reviewed" date forward.