Re:Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
by nicolas_t on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @06:36AM
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I'd be careful with this. I've done that in the past in Malaysia, going through the border from Malaysia to Thailand every 3 months.. Eventually when I took a plan from the airport to travel somewhere else, I got questioned by immigration because of the patterns of staying 3 months and then leaving for a few days. They asked me how I could finance my stays and told me that any work I was doing while in Malaysia remotely violated my visa.
In the end, nothing happened but ymmv. I also know a few people who did the same in HK and eventually got into trouble because of that.
I do think it works well but it's not a long term plan and if you do it, you must plan with potentially being denied entry eventually.
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
by coldtea on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:22PM
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>I do think it works well but it's not a long term plan and if you do it, you must plan with potentially being denied entry eventually.
First, absolutely, the latter can happen at some point.
Second, however, I know tons of people that did it just fine with no issue for years.
YMMV
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
by CalRobert on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @06:38AM
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Indeed, though I've always been a "cross my t's and dot my i's" kind of person. Keeping things above board saved me a lot of worry.
It worked out nicely; as an Irish citizen I still have the right to live and work in both the EU/EEA and the UK, which is handy.
E.g. if you have a remote job, you can just travel to a third country and work from there. Most countries just require that you get out for a few days per 3 or 6 months (which can be just visiting a nearby country, staying in a hotel, and returning) to renew your plain tourist visa.