Barbados working on new visa plans for remote workers to stay there for a year

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Think you'll be working from home for the foreseeable?

Well, you could relocate to Barbados as the Caribbean island has announced plans for a new visa scheme.

The country's Prime Minister Mia Mottley says they plan to introduce the "Barbados Welcome Stamp". It would allow international arrivals to live and work remotely on the island for a whole year.

She said they're hoping to bring in the scheme as short term travel has taken a hit due to quarantine guidelines after Covid-19, CNBC reports.

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“You don’t need to work in Europe, or the U.S. or Latin America if you can come here and work for a couple of months at a time; go back and come back,” she said in a speech last week, according to the Barbados Government Information Service website.

She added that it would allow “persons to come and work from here overseas, digitally so, so that persons don’t need to remain in the countries in which they are.”

Barbados reopen its doors to travellers on July 12th but restrictions are in place to avoid a surge of the disease there. So far, the Caribbean island has reported 103 confirmed cases and 7 deaths from Covid-19.