How we verify

Every visa figure on this site — income requirement, fee, length of stay, processing time — is checked against the destination country's own government source, and that source is linked on the page so you can confirm it yourself. Each record carries the date it was last checked. When a program closes, we say so instead of leaving the old page up.

Where the numbers come from

Official government sources first: the immigration ministry, consulate, or national visa portal that actually issues the permit. Every country page publishes that link under "Official source," so nothing here asks you to take our word for it.

Where an official page is ambiguous, out of date, or contradicts itself — which happens more than you'd expect — we cross-check against a second reputable source and say so in the text. Where sources genuinely conflict and we can't resolve it, we leave the field blank rather than publish a number we can't stand behind. A missing figure is honest; a confident wrong one costs you a rejected application.

Income requirements are usually set in the local currency and move with exchange rates. We show a USD figure for comparison, which means it drifts. Treat it as a bracket, not a threshold to plan against, and confirm the current local-currency amount before applying.

What the "Verified" badge means

A badge like ✓ Verified 2026 means a human re-read that country's official source on that date and confirmed the figures on the page still matched. It is not automated and it is not a scrape.

Each record is re-checked at least once a year, and immediately whenever we learn a rule has changed. The badge disappears on its own after twelve months rather than sitting there implying freshness it no longer has. If you're looking at a page with no badge, that's the page telling you to double-check the official link before you rely on it.

When a program closes — or never opens

This is where most visa sites quietly fail. A country announces a digital nomad visa, a hundred articles get written, the program then closes or never actually launches — and the articles stay up, still explaining how to apply for something that doesn't exist.

We publish the real status instead. The Cayman Islands program is closed and our page says so. Peru passed a nomad visa into law but never opened applications. Qatar has no nomad or freelance visa at all. Each of those pages explains what's actually available instead. A page that tells you not to bother is more useful than one that wastes three weeks of your time.

What we don't publish

A country page only goes live once it has a real summary, the requirements, the application steps, and an official source link. Records that don't clear that bar are marked noindex and kept out of our sitemap — they aren't padded out with filler to make the site look bigger. We'd rather cover fewer countries properly.

Who writes this

GlobeNomad is written and fact-checked by Michael Seutin, who builds and runs the site solo — not a content agency, not an AI content farm. Every visa record here was read off a government source by a person, not scraped. That's why coverage grows steadily instead of a hundred countries appearing overnight, and it's why there's a name on this page: if something here is wrong, there's someone to hold responsible for it.

We are not immigration lawyers or licensed advisers, and nothing here is legal, tax, or financial advice. We tell you what the official rules say and link you to where they say it. For a complicated case — unusual nationality, dependants, tax residency questions — pay a professional in the destination country.

How money affects this (it doesn't)

Some links on this site are affiliate links, and we earn a commission if you buy through them — that's what pays for the site. It doesn't change what we recommend or the order we rank things in, and it never touches the visa data, which has no commercial relationship behind it at all.

The test of that is what we recommend when the better product earns us nothing. Our SafetyWing vs World Nomads comparison tells you to buy World Nomads for a fixed-date trip with expensive gear — we have no affiliate relationship with them and earn nothing from that advice. Same on Wise vs Revolut and several of our eSIM comparisons: the links are plain, unpaid, and the recommendation is whatever actually fits. Full details in the affiliate disclosure.

Found something wrong?

Tell us. If you've just applied for one of these visas, you know the current rules better than any published page does — consulates change requirements faster than they update their websites. Send it via contact with the country and what you ran into, and we'll check the official source and correct the record. Corrections are the single most useful thing a reader can send us.