Another aspect of immigration law that is shaken up by the growth of remote jobs is that it makes work restrictions unenforceable. Pretty much all expat digital nomads who travel around to work are doing so on tourist visas. It'll be interesting to see how governments react as this becomes more and more common
If that were true then foreigners on F1 and H-1B visas would be allowed to start their own companies. That not only doesn't take away jobs for locals, it creates new ones. But that's illegal.
Can’t they start the company and then sponsor themselves?
Also H1-Bs are specific to The US so does not negate my comment about most countries and their attitudes to remote workers. Even if technically not allowed somewhere, no one’s going to start a campaign trying to deport remote tourist workers.
Remote workers pay local consumption tax while not draining value from the local economy.
