§ Immigration

Tourist visa

also called visitor visa · tourism visa

A short-stay permit for visiting a country for leisure that generally forbids working locally.

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Solid lines are terms people actually mix up with Tourist visa. Digital nomad visa · radicacion · Transit visa · Visa on arrival

Right, in plain English

A short-stay permit for visiting a country as a tourist, which generally forbids taking local work. Whether it also forbids remote work for clients back home is murky in a lot of places, and that grey zone is exactly what digital nomad visas were invented to clear up. On paper you are a visitor, not a worker.

Someone spends a couple of months in a country on a tourist visa while quietly working online for clients at home. It is a legal grey area, and if the rules there tighten or an officer asks pointed questions, they have no clear standing, which is why a dedicated nomad visa exists.

Why it matters

Working remotely on one sits in a legal grey zone in many countries, which is why dedicated nomad visas appeared.

Short-stay entry permits · 3 terms

These are the ways to get in for a short visit, not to live there.
A tourist visa is the standard leisure entry, visa-free travel skips the visa entirely for short stays, and a visa on arrival is bought at the border.
A transit visa only lets you pass through, an eVisa is applied for online before travel, and an ETA is a pre-screening approval that is not itself a visa.
Hayya is Qatar's entry-permit portal, and landing permission is the entry an officer actually grants at the border, which can differ from what a visa-free list implied.

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