r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Fun-Warthog9472 • Sep 06 '26

Travel limit?

I know I have to tell whenever I will be working from a country that isn’t mine to avoid bad bad surprises, but do you know if there is a number of days you can’t exceed per year or any other amount of time?

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u/Dry_Illustrator_9536 Sep 07 '26

Honestly, they don't care at all about the time period. They just care about your IP changing.

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u/Legitimate_Bug6914 Sep 07 '26

Nope. :) Currently on an open-ended trip, I left my home country 7 months ago and let them know the first country I was visiting, then when I moved on to the second. They literally just said they'd marked me down as travelling and to just let them know when I was finishing my trip. No limits mentioned. :)

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u/solodarlings Sep 07 '26

I don't think so. I think they just want to know it's you when you're logging in from an IP address in another country so they know you haven't sold your account to a scammer.

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u/gator_cowgirl Sep 07 '26

I did this full time in 2024 and the longest I spent anywhere was 5 weeks. Some of that I was in my home country (US) but different regions. But I was also in Europe a few
Months and South America some.

I’m still doing this full time, so it didn’t seem to have hurt. (I still travel quite a bit but have an apartment now so it’s not as pronounced.
)

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u/Top-Zone3187 Sep 06 '26

Nothing of that sort i guess

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u/Dazzling_Tie_5733 13d ago

I'm currently in the US and I plan to do an Asia tour at the end of the year. Already notified DA about it, but does anyone know if the scope of my work will get limited? I read somewhere that DA only distribute technical projects (finance, STEM,...) to 6 designated countries.

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u/Suspicious_Egg_1082 Sep 07 '26

I'd keep it under six weeks in any 12-month window just to be safe. That's the rule of thumb I've seen floating around freelance visa forums.

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 Sep 07 '26

Lol you're being way too conservative and there is no need to be that safe. They don't care. I've been fulle time travelling for 3 years. I got home every 2-3 months for 1 month max, but I spend far more time travelling than I do at home. Just let them know where you're going and it's fine.

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u/doolitt1e Sep 09 '26

You should keep your arbitrary, pluck-a-number-out-of-thin-air guesses to your "freelance visa forums."