Danish Soomro is a Pakistani-Canadian serial entrepreneur who has founded award-winning products like:
visadb.io - Hire immigration lawyers anywhere
Devi AI - Monitor keywords and intent on social media to find leads
makereels.ai - create viral reels in your cloned voice in 5 seconds
bookeeping.ai - Paula your AI accountant
Danish is always looking for ways to innovate and to discuss important matters in the world such as immigration, travel, and remote work.
Other Important Highlights:
• As a digital nomad himself, Danish is the leader of the largest community of digital nomads on Facebook with +195,000 members.
• He has collaborated with the UN, MIT CEE, and other reputable organizations. He is an ex-Microsoft and ex-Shopify.
• He has been quoted in the BBC, CNN, and The Guardian.
With "work to live" rather than "live to work" as the unofficial lifestyle mantra, more than 1,100 miles of coastline to explore and delicious pastéis de nata all over the place, putting down roots in Portugal sounds pretty appealing.
More than 25 countries have now launched visa programmes for digital nomads, enabling these travellers to work legally, longer and more freely.
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FROM BBC ARTICLE: “There is great excitement around this visa in the nomad community,” says Danish Soomro, founder of Visadb, a visa database that indexes more than 800 residency visas around the world. Also the founder of a private digital nomad community on Facebook with more than 155,000 members, Soomro says Portugal is one of the most popular countries for remote workers (along with places like Greece, Spain, Croatia and Cyprus) thanks to factors that include “warm weather, good internet connection, and community.”
“Before, other Portugal visas were used as a workaround by digital nomads,” he says, as the D7 visa was primarily targeted to pensioners with passive income sources.
FROM CNN ARTICLE: Some experts also question whether digital nomad visas will gain much traction in the first place. Danish Soomro, founder and CEO of global mobility database visadb.io, says “larger segments of nomads still use the three- to six-month tourist visa option for various reasons, such as the complications in applying for digital nomad visas”.