[CCing]

Is not a e-visa...it called e-residency and simply is an ID card for use all the estonian services(like: open a company, pay taxes, open a bank account etc...)

It NOT GIVE a work permit in EU and of course not give a permission to travel in schengeng.

It's simply an ID card. The main difference is that: - Normally in other EU countries for have an ID card for services, you must live there, while with e-residency you can do have and do all the stuff remotely. - It's pretty useless, you can google it and see how had a lot of hype, but in real case uses, it's useless (example: yes you can open a company remotely, but if you don't live in estonia, is a mess with taxes...and having an e-residency, doesn't give you a valid visa for live+work there...so often you can't move to estonia to work, even if you have a company opened in estonia)

[jaclaz]

>It's pretty useless, you can google it and see how had a lot of hype, but in real case uses, it's useless (example: yes you can open a company remotely, but if you don't live in estonia, is a mess with taxes...

Pheew, I thought I was the only one with this opinion, given the hype there is about this thing all over the net.

To me the whole stuff seems a lot like the plans of the gnomes in South Park (but in five steps):

1) get an e-residency (please read as "pay us some little money")

2) establish an Estonia company (please read as "pay us some more money")

3) open a bank account in this or that bank (please read as "give our friends a little more money")

4) ?

5) Profit.

The only practical use I can see is to create a new sort of Double Irish:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

but aimed to the single/poor instead of large corporations, but it has to be seen how the EU will take the idea ...

[StavrosK]

You definitely aren't the only one with that opinion. If you've visited the card's homepage or tried to register for one, you'll have realized it confers almost no privileges.