How this is put together
Immigration information is exactly the kind of thing where a confident interface over stale data does real harm. This page says what we know, how well we know it, and where the limits are.
Four kinds of statement, never mixed
This is the product's central rule. Every figure on the site is one of these, and it is labelled.
Something an authority states, traceable to a published source. A visa’s income threshold is a fact. It is stored in the currency the authority writes it in and is never rewritten.
Arithmetic on facts. Converting €3,680 into dollars is a calculation, shown against a rate with a date on it, and always alongside the original.
Modelled figures with real variance — rent, groceries, a monthly budget. Shown as ranges, because a single number would imply a precision this data does not have.
Plain-language framing of the three above. It never introduces information that is not already in the dataset, and no eligibility result is ever produced this way.
Where the data comes from
Immigration authorities, foreign ministries, legal gazettes and official statistical organisations.
Every substantive immigration claim points at a row in the source registry, and the interface shows that link next to the claim rather than in a footnote. Commercial immigration blogs and visa-agency marketing pages are deliberately absent: they are often right, and they are never canonical here.
Where corroboration came from secondary reporting rather than from the authority’s own wording, the record is marked medium confidence and says so in its caveat. That is the honest description of most figures that are indexed to a minimum wage or set consulate by consulate.
What this dataset's status means
Records carry an editorial state, and the interface never presents one as stronger than it is.
This dataset is a reference seed, compiled 20 September 2026
This is a compiled reference dataset. Every figure is drawn from official material and cited, but no record has been signed off by a named editor working through the review console, so nothing here is marked verified. Immigration rules change without notice and consulates apply them differently. Check the linked authority before you act on anything.A named editor has checked the record against its source through the review console. Nothing in this dataset is at this level yet.
Assembled from official material and individually cited, but not independently signed off. Everything here is at this level.
A monitored source page changed. The record is flagged rather than silently updated — an automatic extraction never becomes published immigration data on its own.
Coverage
The map shows every country in the world. Most of them have no immigration research behind them, and the map says so.
- Detailed guides
- 8
- Core information
- 7
- Research pending
- 179
Routes, requirements, forms, process
Entry rules, main routes, living data
On the map, not yet researched
A country shaded as pending is not a country we think is hard to move to. It is a country nobody has looked into yet. Those are different claims and the interface keeps them apart, which is also why the visitor-stay overlay has its own colour for “no rule on file” rather than folding it into “visa required”.
Freshness
Computed from when a record was last reviewed against its source — never from when the site was last deployed.
- Under 90 days. Recently reviewed.
- 90 to 180 days. Review suggested.
- Over 180 days. Review overdue, and shown as such next to the figure.
Some programmes move much faster than others. Thailand changed its visa exemption from 60 days to 30 on 15 September 2026, five days before this dataset was compiled; a guide written a month earlier would have been confidently wrong.
How eligibility is worked out
Deterministically, in your browser, from rules stored as data.
Each route carries machine-readable conditions — an income floor, an age window, a required document. Your answers are compared against them one at a time, and every result shows which conditions were met, which were not, and which could not be tested because you have not told us. No language model is anywhere in that path.
Monetary conditions are compared in the currency the authority states them in: your figure is converted, the threshold is not. Where no exchange rate is available the comparison is reported as untestable rather than guessed.
What the engine will never say
That you are approved, that you qualify, or that an application will succeed. It says what the published requirements are and how your answers line up against them. The decision belongs to a government, and it weighs things this tool does not model.What happens to what you type
Nothing leaves your browser. Your nationality, income, age, shortlist and checklist progress are held in local storage and never sent to a server — there is no account system here, so there is nothing to sign in to and nothing stored about you anywhere else. The trade-off is real: none of it follows you to another device, and clearing your site data clears it.
What this is not
- Not legal advice. It is a structured reading of published rules, which is a different thing from advice about your situation.
- Not a live job board. Labour-market conditions and the set of jobs open right now are separate claims, and this dataset only holds the first.
- Not a ranking. There is no “best country” score, because the weighting would be ours and the decision is yours.
- Not complete. Fifteen destinations out of 194, and several of those at core depth only.