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Relocating to Dubai on a remote job.

Hi folks, I have a remote job which pays good enough and some remote gigs. I want to relocate to Dubai but dont want to work for a Dubai based company, I want to continue my current setup as is it pays much more (US startups). Has anyone done something like this or is it even possible? I don't to apply for a work visa, rather a digital nomad visa. I am married and my wife will be relocating with me as well. I know about their Golden visa program which gives you residency if your invest north of 2cr in Dubai, which I am not comfortable with. Any help is appreciated. Cheers.

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Note: I don't have crores of rupees to invest and buy my way into residency or citizenships. So my roadmap is as per my affordability & wisdom. I'm a self-employed quant engineer in India. Planning to move to Dubai and register a quant trading company in a UAE special economic zone. I think it requires for me to become an NRI first so I'll have to look into making certain arrangements for a 6 months stay in Dubai or so. This is to be done by 2025-26 so that I can avoid the 40% flat taxes on F&O income that is considered as speculative gains in India. So I must become and retain an NRI status to register and continue company operations in UAE tax free. Now to stay an NRI, there's a restriction that I can't stay more than 6 months in India or else my tax residency changes to India. Other personal troubling factors in India are the food, air quality, disrespectful, unjust and corrupt authorities (ITD, FSSAI, ED, CBI, Courts, etc). Nevertheless, there are some good support systems and accessible aid in India. Moreover my family would not settle abroad so I neither want to settle in India nor leave access to India. The one long term permanent solution to all of the above problems I've come up with is getting an ILR in UK after staying there for 5 years on a skilled worker tier-2 sponsorship visa that will be given to me by a friend who owns a company there. This will cost me significantly (approx total 15-20L incl every legality and excl any living or travel expense) but not as much as through the investment routes. In the 5th year my visa would expire but I'd be eligible to apply for ILR, in 7-8th year I can apply for UK citizenship and finally in 9-10th year I can apply for an Overseas Citizen of India and then I can stay as long as I want in any of the 3 countries - India (for family), UAE (business and healthcare), UK (home) without any taxes on my UAE income. Bonus: Schengen Visa and many other visas should be easy to obtain on a British Passport for world tour.