The United States , most of Europe , most of SE Asia , most of the world ? The rules are usually simply that you can ' t work and rarely qualify that with saying that remote work is ok , it ' s usually just you can ' t work . Some have explicit exemptions for incidental work like checking your email but it ' s not clear that such an exemption would cover your actually moving there specifically to work as your main object , particularly as the law usually says a tourist must be coming for the purpose of tourism . I ' m surprised that Canada actually has this written in explicitly but I really don ' t think it ' s the norm at all , and you say I ' m coming here to work remotely to an immigration officer at your peril , I wouldn ' t do it unless you are on an explicit work visa with an explicit with permit , I ' d always say I ' m on holiday .