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200 countries scored across 9 dimensions: safety, economic opportunity, cost of living, quality of life, pathway speed, language accessibility, climate, digital infrastructure, and healthcare access.
Family weight recalibrated to better reflect dependent visa availability; remote worker AVOID threshold raised to reduce false positives; dangerous country disqualifier added as a hard gate before scoring.
Cost donut chart, savings runway bar, and risk matrix added to Full Report PDF output. Improves at-a-glance interpretation of financial and safety data.
UK Non-Dom regime updated to reflect the new Foreign Income and Gains (FIG) regime effective April 2025. Table of Contents updated to reflect 8 chapters.
Email collected at Step 1 alongside nationality. No-contact checkbox added (GDPR). Free report auto-sent immediately on quiz completion — no email gate on the results page.
966 country-by-profession pages published with data-rich titles including visa route counts, average salary benchmarks, and match scores. 186 indexable; 780 set to noindex (thin content threshold not met).
All 277 blog articles now display a visible Editorial Team byline with schema.org Organization author markup, improving E-E-A-T signals for Google Search.
GDP desirability multiplier added to country scoring; Gulf kafala employment model penalty applied; dimension weights rebalanced across all 5 scoring dimensions. Results now more consistently credible against ground-truth cases.
Bulk corrections applied across the visa programme database: ISO duplicates removed, string-to-boolean coercions fixed, non-URL source fields set to null, and 9,662 pre-calculated scores recomputed.
4,376 fields updated across 201 country metadata entries. Sources: World Bank (10 development indicators), Numbeo (6 cost-of-living indices), and RestCountries (12 geographic and demographic fields).
Expired API key renewed; 9 STRIPE_PRICE_* secrets configured for all products including EM discount variants. Checkout-to-webhook-to-report delivery flow verified end-to-end.
167 head-to-head comparison pages published at /compare/{country-a}-vs-{country-b}/ with real database data, Schema.org markup, and FAQ sections. Comparison hub at /compare/ with A–Z navigation.
WTS (WhereToStudy) student pathway data merged into the main WTE platform under the /students/ URL prefix. 228 study pathways across 29 countries. Student pages use separate tracking and Pinterest scripts.