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There are already a couple of questions here about whether a US citizen can go to the UK for say 3 months (within the visa-free limit) for tourism but also while there work remotely for his US employer. (E.g., here is one I asked 3 years ago.)

But looking again, in 2023, I see now the official UK site says:

While in the UK as a tourist, you cannot:

  • do paid or unpaid work for a UK company or as a self-employed person

(That was for the US visa-free entry, there's also here for standard visa.)

But that seems different wording IIRC my previous visits there. Now it is expressly qualified with "UK company". (And I'm assuming that "or as a self-employed person" also refers to working for UK clients as a self-employed person. But that isn't relevant to this question anyway as I am employed by a US company.)

So have the rules changed? Can I now travel in/live in/commit tourism in the UK while doing remote work for the US company where I'm a full-time employee?

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It seems like the page was updated after Nov. 2020 with the new structure (https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034638/https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y/usa/tourism)

Looking through the changes to the rules in that period (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/updates) it seems to have been an effect of the new point-based system implemented for Brexit.

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