About our data

What we cover

Long-stay ways to live in a country: visas and permits for remote work, investment, business, retirement, talent, work, study and family, plus free movement and long visa-free stays. Tourist and transit visas are left out. Tax rules are kept apart from visas: special regimes and how each country taxes foreign-source income.

How facts are sourced and checked

• Only official sources: immigration and tax authorities, official gazettes and legislation.
• Every figure links to its source and shows the date we checked it.
• Each record is reviewed separately, with special care for effective dates, amendments and money thresholds.
• When a source doesn't state something, we leave it out instead of guessing. Where a rule is unclear, the route says so on its own page.
• 89% of routes are fully verified; the others are marked as partly verified where they appear.

More on our methodology page.

How often we update

• Routes in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia are re-checked monthly; other countries every three months, and sooner when a rule changes.
• US dollar equivalents use a daily reference exchange rate, fetched each time we update the site; the rate date is shown with the figures.
• Official rule changes and our corrections are listed on the changes page.

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This is general information about official rules, not legal, immigration or tax advice. The official authority decides every application.