Short answer: usually yes, and the listings are far less restrictive than the forums assume. The longer answer matters more, because most postings never address the question at all.
This site reads the Location: line out of every posting and stores it exactly as written. Across the 679 roles open right now, those lines divide like this.
Most postings never name a country
| What the posting says | Roles | Openings |
|---|---|---|
| Explicitly worldwide | 16 | 1,134 |
| Names a country restriction | 74 | 12,466 |
| Says nothing about country | 589 | 63,705 |
Only 16 of 679 roles say outright that they are open worldwide, covering 1% of openings. A further 74 name a country restriction.
Everything else, 589 roles carrying 82% of the openings, is silent. Of those, 243 have a Location: line reading only “Remote”, 314 have no location line at all, and 32 name a scope this site could not read cleanly.
Silence is not permission
A posting that says “Remote” has told you the work is remote. It has not told you which countries it accepts. Treating that as “open to everyone” turns the platform’s silence into a promise it never made, and if you are in Lagos or Lahore that difference matters more than it does in Los Angeles.
This site therefore does not fill the gap for you. A role whose posting names no country is shown to everybody, because hiding it would be worse: you might well be eligible, and nothing in the listing says otherwise. But the role page says “Remote, no country named” rather than “Remote, anywhere”, because only 16 postings have earned the second phrase.
When a posting is silent, the answer comes from the platform, not from us. Apply, and let their screening tell you.
What the real restrictions look like
Of the 74 roles that do name a scope, the overwhelming majority are one country.
| Scope named | Roles |
|---|---|
| United States | 61 |
| Canada, United Kingdom, United States | 2 |
| Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, United States | 2 |
| Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru | 2 |
| Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, United States | 2 |
| Australia | 2 |
| Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, United States | 1 |
| Canada, United States | 1 |
US-only accounts for 61 of the 74. The rest are small groups: a few Canada and UK combinations, one Latin American set, a couple of European lists, and a handful naming Australia or Canada alone.
So the geography of this market is not “American work with a few scraps abroad”. It is a large body of work that mostly does not specify, plus a visible minority reserved for the US.
The platform’s own default matters more than the role
Where a posting is silent, the platform’s account-level policy is what decides, and these differ.
Mercor is the most explicit. Its policy says that where a role names no region, assume it is open to candidates in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom or the European Union. That is a real constraint and it is easy to miss, because the role listing itself will look unrestricted.
AfterQuery says it welcomes experts worldwide, while noting that project availability varies by country.
micro1 and Terac set eligibility per role and publish no overall fallback.
That is why a silent posting on one platform is not the same as a silent posting on another. Check the platform page before you read too much into a blank location line.
Passing screening is not the last gate
The failure that catches people out is not eligibility. It is verification.
Contractors have described clearing a platform’s screening entirely, then stalling at identity checks: one reported passing micro1’s certification steps and then discovering that a national ID card was not accepted, only a passport. That ends the process regardless of how well the interview went.
Payment rails are the other one. Getting paid depends on whether the platform’s provider operates where you are, and that varies between neighbouring countries. Mercor pays weekly through Stripe and uses Wise where Stripe is unavailable. Terac requires government ID during onboarding.
Both are worth checking before you invest hours in assessments, because neither appears in the job listing.
What to do with this
- Do not read “Remote” as “open to me”. Read it as “unstated”.
- Check the platform’s default policy, which matters more than a silent role listing.
- Confirm what identity document the platform accepts before starting screening.
- Confirm the payout method works where you live.
- Apply to the silent ones anyway. 589 roles are silent, and the platform’s screening is what answers the question.
The restrictions that exist are real and mostly American. The far larger category is postings that simply do not say, and the only honest thing to do with those is tell you so.
Browse the open roles and filter by country to see what names a restriction, or read what AI training work pays for the rates behind them.