Let’s find the doors that are open to you

Most people know of one or two ways to move abroad. There are many more, and which of them are open to you depends on the particulars of your life — where your family came from, what you do for a living, where you have lived and studied.

The routes that exist

  • A citizenship you may already hold. If a parent or grandparent was born abroad, the right may be yours today — no application to qualify for, just proof to assemble.
  • Work. An employer sponsors you, or a points system accepts you on your own merits with no job offer at all.
  • Remote work. Dozens of countries now admit people who earn from clients or employers elsewhere.
  • Study. A course, and in many countries the right to stay and work after it.
  • Business or self-employment. Starting something, freelancing, or taking a trade licence.
  • Investment. Capital in exchange for residence, and occasionally for citizenship.
  • Family. A spouse, partner, parent or child already settled somewhere.
  • A pension or independent income. Retirement and private-means routes, which ask for income rather than a job.

Answer what you can below and we’ll show which of these are realistically open to you, and what each would actually require. Anything you leave blank simply shows the requirement instead.

    These are often different, and the difference can matter more than the passport. A British citizen living in France since before Brexit, for example, may hold settled rights there that open doors a British passport alone would not.

    Only because many routes set a minimum. We convert to compare like with like. The rates are indicative and coarse — they decide which routes are worth looking at, nothing more — and they were taken in 2026-08.

    Browse by country

    Every country covered here, with the number of routes we have on record and how many of those have had their figures confirmed at the official source. 2 countries are included with no route recorded yet — we list them rather than leave them out.